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NEWS
- Two scholarships for postgraduate students from Eastern European countries for ECER
- EERQI - European Educational Research Quality Indicators
- MOCK VIVA Workshop for PhD students at ECER2008
- Best Paper Award 2007 for Nasser Mansour
- The European Research Council expands and delivers
- Research and Questionnaire on Harry Potter by IUFM Célestin Freinet - Académie de Nice et Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
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Job Offer: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg, seeks new HEAD OF PUBLICATIONS AND INFORMATION
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Job Offer: The Hong Kong Institute of Education seeks Chair Professors / Professors
International Conference «Issues of Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Modern Education System» in Tartu, Estonia, 17 to 19 April , 2008
- Registration for the Symposium on International Education, 30 May, Vancouver
- ACA Annual Conference 2008: Beyond 2010 - European Higher Education in the Next Decade, Tallin, 15 to 17 June 2008 and ACA European Policy Seminar: Exporting education: Europe's role in transnational education
The 15th International Conference on Learning, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 3-6 June 2008
- The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management, Orlando, Fl., USA, 29 June to 2 July 2008
- The 8th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 5 to 8 August 2008
- The 6th TiSSA Plenum & PreConference "Politics - Power - Practice: Advancing Social Work Agenda in Times of Uncertainty", Riga, Latvia, 18 to 24 August 2008
- EARLY NOTICE: Conference May 2009 International Conference on Educational Research for Development, Addis Ababa University
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Ethiopia,13 to 15 May 2009
Scholarships for postgraduate students from Eastern European countries
The EERA and the Postgraduate Network have established two scholarships for postgraduate students from Eastern European countries in order to allow them to participate in this year's ECER (European Conference on Educational Research) in Göteborg, Sweden.
Each scholarship includes:
► Accepted presentation for the Pre-conference
► Fees for the main conference
► Social events
► 500 Euro for travel and accommodation costs
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Application Form (Word-document):
European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI)
Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin
Upon initiative of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and its members, the University of Hamburg, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin, has submitted a project proposal entitled European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI) in the 7th Framework Programme of the Research Directorate of the European Union. EERQI has now been funded as a small collaborative project with ? 1,494,564 and will officially begin on 1st April 2008 for a three year period.
EERQI will build an advanced prototype framework for relevance assessment of research documents in educational research based on formal mechanisms including citation analysis and linking, semantically-based full text analysis and co-occurrence of information items in open access and non-open access repositories, as well as in journal articles, books and other freely-available scholarly publications. Educational research has been chosen as an example of socially- and politically embedded fields within the humanities and social sciences. The resulting prototype framework of quality indicators and methods will provide the base toolset for a European information service for evaluation of educational research publications and can be applied to other social sciences and humanities fields. Complementary to traditional measurements of scientific quality (citation analysis, journal impact factor), new methods and indicators of quality assessment will be tested (usage assessments, versions available, other statistical methods, as well as by means of advanced, semantics-based detection of linking, correlations and referral contexts).
The project will also address the complex role of the diversity of scientific languages in Europe. Different mother tongues are a barrier to the international flow of communication while also being fundamental to expressing complex scientific ideas which are often embedded in a certain cultural back-ground. Thus the project will also address the challenge of effectively dealing with multilingualism and specific ?cultural heritage? of research traditions in the European countries. EERQI results will also raise visibility and competitiveness of European researchers and contribute to new policy bases for funding, hiring, and evaluation decisions in European academic and research institutions.
The Project will be carried out by a Consortium of 19 European Institutions including 2 international and 2 national learned societies in educational research, as well as departments of education at European universities, computer and documentation centers, and publishers of educational research materials.
The Project website will be http://www.eerqi.eu and will be set up by the beginning of April.
All public documents from the project will be available in open access on this site.
Information regarding the Project can be obtained from:
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin (Gogolin@erzwiss.uni-hamburg.de)
Dr. Diann Pelz-Rusch (Diann.Pelz-Rusch@rrz.uni-hamburg.de)
Mock Viva Workshop at ECER 2008
Please note that there will be a Mock Viva Workshop at the ECER 2008 in Göteborg. PhD students who have completed 80% of their thesis are welcome to apply for participation in this workshop. Read more ...
Best Paper Award for research on religious and science education in Islamic counties
Nasser Mansour, a research fellow who recently completed his PhD from the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Exeter has been awarded the European Educational Research Association (EERA) Best Paper Award for Postgraduate and Young Researchers.
This prestigious award is for his thesis ' Religious beliefs: A hidden variable in the performance of science teachers in the classroom'.
Nasser is Egyptian and lectured in Science Education in Egypt prior to moving to England for post graduate study. His winning paper focused on the challenges for Islamic cultures to manage the relationship between providing a religious and science education that may be at odds with each other.
The official award ceremony will take place in September in Göteborg, Sweden.
The European Research Council expands and delivers
The European Research Council consists of an autonomous Scientific Council of 22 scientists. The ERC is now prepared to award its first so-called starting grants, each of up to 2 million Euro over five years. To select the grantees the Council has established a panel structure of 20 panels of scientists covering physical, engineering, universe and earth sciences (8), biological and life sciences (7) and social and human sciences (5).
The Council and Parliament decision that put the FP7 in place proposed two executive agencies to help manage the 50 billion Euro budget. The ERC is now organising its administration by first establishing two new executive agencies in Brussels called the European Research Council Executive Agency and the Research Executive Agency. The first agency will be responsible for about 7 billion supporting frontier research, the other will have 6,5 billion to finance the Marie Curie fellowships, research for the benefit of SMEs and parts of the Space and Security themes.
http://erc.europa.eu/
Research and Questionnair on Harry Potter by the IUFM Célestin Freinet - Académie de Nice et Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
Brenas Yolande, Sète, France, Member of the AECSE wrote us:
"We have been working on 'Harry Potter' for 4 years now. Our research results were the basis for several scientific publications. We have just developed an online questionnaire in different languages which will enable us to compare the impression of the lecture of people of all age and from different countries. And for this, we would like to ask you for your help. Could you please answer our questionnaire and pass it on to your family, friends, colleagues, students..."
Link to the questionnaire:
Job Offer: HEAD OF PUBLICATIONS AND INFORMATION
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), a research, training and documentation centre focusing on adult basic education, literacy and lifelong learning, is seeking a new Head of Publications from June or July 2008. The position entails running UIL's book publishing programme, editing the Institute's journal International Review of Education and overseeing information-related activities in coordination with the public relations officer.
The following qualifications are required:
- A good university degree, preferably in education, social sciences or a related field.
- Knowledge of the educational field.
- Wide experience in both commercial and academic publishing.
- Expert writing and editing skills.
- Native English as well as a good knowledge of French, German and preferably Spanish.
- Good leadership and interpersonal skills
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Job offer: The Hong Kong Institute of Education seeks Chair Professors / Professors
The Hong Kong Institute of Education is a self-accrediting university-level institution funded by the University Grants Committee which offers degree, graduate and professional development programmes. It has established itself as the preferred teacher education provider in Hong Kong and is recognized for the excellence of its teaching and quality of its research which focuses on the needs of schools. The Institute is taking the initiative to reposition itself to a University of Education in response to the rapid social, technological and economic needs of Hong Kong and the region. The purpose-built and well-equipped campus is located in Tai Po on an exceptionally attractive site. This strategic recruitment exercise is to enhance our research and development capacity and in support of the strategic directions laid down by the Institute's Development Blueprint 2007-2017.
Further information about the Institute, its aspirations and the future development can be found on the Institute's website at http://www.ied.edu.hk.
Read more about the job offer...
International Conference «Issues of Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Modern Education System» in Tartu, Estonia
The Narva College in Tartu, Estonia, is pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference on issues of multiculturalism, interculturality and multilingualism, which will take place on April 17 - 19, 2008 in Narva College of the University of Tartu.
In 2006 - 2008 Narva College of the University of Tartu is implementing a European Social Fund project "Improving the Quality of Multicultural Component in Teacher Training". The project aims at developing professionalism in the field of multicultural and multilingual education and improving the quality of professional activity of teachers in Estonia.
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Registration for the Symposium on International Education, 30 May 2008, Vancouver
You are invited to register in the Symposium on International Education, 30 May 2008, Vancouver, a pre-conference event of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada within the annual conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, 31 May-3 June, Vancouver.
For symposium and registration information, please visit: http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/education/2008CIESCPre-Conference.cfm
Academic Cooperation Association
ACA Annual Conference 2008: Beyond 2010 - European Higher Education in the Next Decade
ACA is proud to open registrations for its Annual Conference, to be held in Tallinn, the beautiful capital of Estonia. This central event in on the international event agenda in 2008 will take place from 15 to 17 June. /Beyond 2010: European Higher Education in the Next Decade/, will identify the main higher education trends for the next ten years.
Once again, ACA has managed to win an impressive list of internationally renowned speakers from three continents, who will enlighten the 250+ participants. Among them are *David Coyne*, *Sir Peter Scott*, *Marijk van der Wende*, *Catharine Stimpson*, and many more. For details on the programme and how to register, click on the link below.
http://www.aca-secretariat.be/08events/Conferences/Tallinn/tallinn.htm
ACA European Policy Seminar: "Exporting education: Europe's role in transnational education", 16 May 2008
Brussels, Belgium
http://www.aca-secretariat.be/08events/upcoming.htm
The 15th International Conference on Learning, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 3-6 June 2008 The International Conference on Learning is for any person with an interest in, and concern for, education at any of its level - from early childhood,
to schools, to higher education - and lifelong learning in any of its sites, from home to school to university to the workplace.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 March 2008. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of
submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.LearningConference.com
The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2008
The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics invites you to submit a paper/abstract to the The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2008 (http://www.sciiis.org/KGCM2008); which will be held jointly with The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing: KCPR 2008, and The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences: KCC 2008. It will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on June 29th to July 2nd, 2008.
The 8th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Cambridge University, United Kingdom,
5-8 August 2008
The primary interest of the Management Conference is knowledge-based social and economic change. Driven by globalisation and advances in information and communications technologies, this change has been characterised in terms of emerging information/knowledge societies and a global knowledge-based economy.The Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 March 2008.
Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.ManagementConference.com
The 6th annual TiSSA Plenum & PreConference "Politics - Power - Practice: Advancing Social Work Agenda in Times of Uncertainty" The University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Sciences (http://szf.lu.lv/szf/eng/index.htm ), invites experienced & emerging colleagues from the scientific, political
and practical fields of the social professions to join the Plenum & PreConference of The international Social Work & Society Academy (TiSSA) in Riga. The TiSSA Plenum will take place from August 21 to 24 - the PreConference from August 18 to 20, 2008. Further information will be provided on www.TiSSA.net at the beginning of March.
Addis Ababa University
Ethiopia
13th to 15th May 2009
This is to give you early notice of a conference to take place in Addis Ababa in 2009 -- the first international educational research conference to be hosted in the country. The organisers are very keen to extend an invitation to participants from European educational research associations and to build relationships with the European educational research community.
There is no more information available at this stage, but we shall distribute a call for papers in due course. Do plan ahead (it is only eighteen months away!) and keep this slot in your diaries.
Ethiopia is a wonderful country with an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. We shall be offering tourist packages linked to the conference for those who would like to take the opportunity to visit among other things the source of the Blue Nile in Lake Tana and, the amazing rock churches of Lalibella (carved from the solid rock) or the archaeological remains of the ancient Axumite civilisation in Axum.
We look forward to seeing you in Addis!
Professor Tirussew Kidanemariam (Prof)
Dean of the College of Education
Addis Ababa University
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