Call for Papers for EERJ 2010
Mapping the European Educational Research Space: Policy, Governance and Cultures
The European Educational Research Journal would like to produce a special issue on the processes and subjects of Europeanization in education for Vol 9 in 2010. Papers are invited; they should be submitted to the EERJ Editor by 1 December 2009 to Prof Martin Lawn m.lawn@btinternet.com
The EERJ works within the idea that European education exists today within a borderless space containing significant flows of ideas, policies and academics, between countries, in networks and associations, and in projects. From its beginning, it has encouraged research across European borders and across the field of educational studies: it has published symposia and network papers in a range of fields on European education policy, market reforms, travelling policies, public education, social capital, the technology of numbers, mobility, didactics and social justice.
The effects of cross European comparisons, joint research projects, benchmarking developments and regulatory growth suggest that Europeanization processes in education are wide but also deep. They are occurring within and between national policies, research communities and experts. New actors, or national actors working in new ways, in the public and the private sector in education, and at its different levels, are producing new effects. The field of education was not one of the core areas of EU policy but the adoption of knowledge economy discourses, the Open Method of Coordination and Bologna Agreement, global technology convergences and common performance measuring has transformed its position in European policy.
It is possible to view this process and these effects as constituting a European Education Space; a term that recognizes what is happening signifies a new condition in European education. It is having consequences for what is studied, what is not studied and what needs to be studied.
The Editors of the special issue will be Prof Lisbeth Lundahl [Umea University, Sweden], Prof Stefan Hoppman [University of Vienna, Austria] and Prof Martin Lawn [University of Edinburgh, UK].