Date                Congress 10 - 12 March 2011, Pre-Congress 9 - 10 March                                 2011
Venue              University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Organisation   Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA)

The theme of the congress

The focus of the NERA 2011 Congress will be the topic of human rights in the context of education and the educational sciences. The congress aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for approaching an enhanced understanding of rights in the fields of education, education policy, and education research. NERA 2011 seeks to combine academic expertise and pedagogical perspectives, including those of human rights education.

Recent decades have seen the global spread of a human rights ethos. Its impact can be observed in the extensive development of, for example,
international human rights instruments and the worldwide public adoption of human rights discourses. Indeed, people seeking access to social and political resources increasingly frame their claims in the language of human rights.

Rights discourses play an important role in emancipatory struggles and in the practices and methods of governance. The language of the rights discourses is adopted by a variety of actors, despite the fact that they articulate competing conceptions and interpretations of human rights.

Consequently, the ambivalences and tensions inherent to rights talk have long been the subjects of scholarly attention.

Keynote speakers:

Leena Alanen
Professor of Early Childhood Education
University of Jyväskylä
Finland

Marie Dembour
Professor of Law and Anthropology
University of Sussex
England

Alan Dyson
Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Equity
University of Manchester
England

Martin Scheinin
Professor of Public International Law
European University Institute, Firenze
Italy

 

Important dates:

15 Oct 2010
Deadline for abstract submission

8 Dec 2010
Notification of acceptance. Payment at reduced rate (early bird) registration starts

15 Jan 2011
Deadline for registration and payment at reduced rate (early bird)

20 Feb 2011
Deadline for registration and payment

All information regarding the conference will be made available at Congress website: www.confedent.fi/nera2011

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