Dear crit-geog-forum members,
please find below a call for papers for a session I am organising with
Claudia Wucherpfennig at the German Geographentag 2009 in Vienna. We'd
be very interested in a more international debate at this conference.
Any suggestions, please do not hesitate to come back to me. We'd also be
interested in the different situations and legacies of critical
geography/teaching critical geography in different countries.
Hope to see you there
Uli
Call for papers for a session at the Geographentag 2009 in Vienna
(19.-26.9.2009)
Geography between the "Bologna process", neoliberalisation of the
universities and critical approaches
Ulrich Best (Chemnitz), Claudia Wucherpfennig (Frankfurt)
Outline
In view of the ongoing transformation of the German and European
education systems, we invite papers for a discussion of the role of
critical geography between neoliberal restructuring, critical teaching
and the prevailing hegemony of traditional approaches in the discipline.
Central questions of the present discussion are: How can geography
education further critical thinking under the conditions of the "Bologna
process"? What does "relevance" mean besides technical skills, factual
knowledge and "soft skills"? How can future secondary teachers of
geography be sensitized for critical geography? These discussions refer
both to contents and to the basic conditions of geography at the university.
These questions are also discussed internationally, where the connection
of geography and social activism or political practice is often in the
focus. Contributions might consider the relevance of activism, the
different projects of critical geography or examples from the history of
critical geography.
The session will be arranged into two parts. In the first part, concepts
and historical developments of critical geography will be duscussed. In
the second part, the current restructuring of academia and its effects
on critical geography will be in the focus. We invite contributions on
these two strands of the debate.
A: Concepts and historical developments
- theoretical approaches to the relationship of geography and society
- concepts of critical geography: historical examples and current
reflections
- Geography "beyond the academy" and geography as political practice
B: Restructuring of academia and its effects on critical geography
- the effects of the "Bologna process" on critical geography
- critical research and teaching in the context of the neo
liberalisation of the universities
- teaching critical geography to geography teachers
Organisers:
Dr. Ulrich Best
TU Chemnitz, European Studies
D-09107 Chemnitz
Tel. 0049 - (0) 371 531 33977
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Dr. Claudia Wucherpfennig
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Institut for Human Geography
Robert Mayer Str. 8
D-60325 Frankfurt A.M.
Tel. 0049 - (0) 69 798 22147
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