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International Conference

*WHY STILL EDUCATION 2015*

Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

2-4 July 2015

http://wse.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/


*We do not have keynote speakers. Let the presentations speak for
themselves*.



*Call for Applications *


 Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory organises the second
international conference *Why still education?* The conference is conceived
as an open scientific forum which seeks to contribute to reflection on and
development of educational strategies, to provide a space for exchange of
experience and knowledge, and to encourage fruitful challenges to the
existing educational practices.



*Conference topic:*

*ACTORS AND DISTRACTORS IN EDUCATION *



This year we wish to thematize the role of the participants in the
educational process. What actors are indispensable to the educational
process, and who are the intruders? Who are the loyal actors and who are
the distractors? What type of understanding of education do we have in mind
when we make judgements about this? And is the conflict between those
“factors” inevitable, or can they be possibly harmonized?


The hidden assumption behind these questions is that there is some kind of
educational front which pits adversaries against each other, as friends and
foes of education. But the discussion tends to become more complex if we
take that actors may sometimes also be distractors, and vice versa. The
position of a good or a bad component in the educational process is not
warranted in advance. It is always established anew by the enacting (or the
failure to enact) its role. But what role is a successful one? Who is the
screenwriter, and who is the director in this educational drama?


The state, the society, the local community, and the school board, to begin
with the most general factors, may certainly be seen as useful
organisational pillars of educational activities. However, they can also
act as obstacles to their enactment. Immediate ‘executors’ – teachers,
professors, lecturers, animators, pupils and students – can contribute most
directly to this or that desirable vision of education, but their
contribution may also prove the most perilous. Finally, there are also
other ‘institutions’ which, if in less apparent and more roundabout way,
have a profound influence on the character and the quality of education.
Parents, school, media, technologies and the like, represent those
particularly sensitive (distr-)actors.


We strongly believe that many other influential factors condition the
existing models of education, or impact on how educational programmes are
being articulated. Those span from more or less incontrollable underground
currents, such as tradition and globalisation, to ideologies, new styles of
life and labour market constellations. Problematizing of desirability of
their influences and effects, as well as their interactions, is also most
welcome.


Potential applicants include:


   - Theorists of education in the fields of philosophy, sociology,
   pedagogy, andragogy, psychology, political theory, anthropology, history,
   as well as experts in education management;
   - Practitioners – teachers, textbook writers, initiators of
   supplementary and extracurricular educational activities, representatives
   of the alternative educational programs, etc.


Application deadline: *April 20, 2015*


Please, find more details at the conference website:
http://wse.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/