Bordering, Re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society

Location: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period: June 14-18, 2010

The aim of the congress is to analyze the “Educational space” as the space where ‘difference’ is conceived, reproduced or contested. The interest is focused in particular on the linkages between material space (institutional buildings, camps), representations of space (maps and organizational charts as well as metaphors) and spaces of representation, (the lived or experienced space, feelings and emotions, senses of security or insecurity). Spaces and their use can be classed, gendered, radicalised, and sexualized. Moreover the production of space is also linked to the production of identities, to spaces for assembly, or to keeping ‘others’ in their place, either materially or symbolically and it is linked to inclusion and exclusion as well.

Rebordering is an aspect of globalization, and all themes connected to this concept would have globalization as both an opportunity and a threat. There would be concerns about responsibility across and within borders (for climate change, arms trade, movements of peoples), but also about borders in terms of social divisions, the invisible and visible lines between groups, and how education can challenge those borders which deny freedoms, rights and capabilities. Therefore the main question is: what are the educational spaces for contestation of inequality?

The following speakers have already accepted to be keynotes (further speakers and discussants will be announced  on the conference website before the conference takes place):

If you are interested you can see the call for application.

World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES)
e-mail: wcces@uow.edu.au
 
Boğaziçi University
Department of Educational Sciences - B.U
address: Department of Educational Sciences XIV WCCES Congress Office
YD105 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
tel.: 0090.212.359.7678
fax: 0090.212.257.5036
e-mail: info@wcces2010.org