EERA Network 17. Histories of Education is developing a book publication to mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of EERA (which coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the network). The publication is envisaged as a transdisciplinary one, suited to the EERA-supported Springer book series on Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research. If you are interested in contributing to the proposed new volume, edited by the Link Convenor and the Convenors of Network 17, please send a 100-200 (max. 500) word abstract to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Geert Thyssen by October 31, 2023 for consideration: Geert.Thyssen@hvl.no.
Authors do not need to have presented their chapter at an EERA
conference (ECER). However, candidate contributors should pay especial
attention to the temporal lens central to ECER 2024 (“Education in an
Age of Uncertainty: Memory and Hope for the Future”) and all Network
17’s interests, whether it concern new forms of scholarship, new media,
or underexplored areas.
For your contribution you should indicate which
book section (outlined below) would be best suited and how it may push
boundaries in educational research from a transdisciplinary perspective.
Section 1: Data/sources – e.g., revisiting the very concepts of sources
and/or data; exploring the workings of data and/or data generation in
education as a scholarly/policy/practice field; reconsidering education
disciplines’ disciplining around data in terms of what is enabled to
qualify and/or excluded from qualifying as such and to what effects;
analysing overlooked types and/or sites of source/data gathering
(generation) and the potential of these;
Section 2: Methodology/methods – e.g., rethinking methods’ place in
educational research; contrasting/combining/realigning methods;
proposing new methods/types of methodology; exploring implications of
using particular, promising methods/methodology; reimagining
discipline-specific method-related constructs (e.g., ethnography,
historiography);
Section 3: Theory/epistemology – e.g., reappraising windows upon
phenomena of education studied or theories of knowledge regarding
“education”; deconstructing discipline-specific notions of knowledge
making; reconfiguring theory-practice, meaning-matter,
reflection-experience, knowing-sensing or similar
onto-ethico-epistemological dichotomies;
Section 4: Edges/niches/gaps – e.g., charting emerging
discipline-transcending areas/topics of educational inquiry,
investigating cross-disciplinary blind spots, covering less dominant
issues, approaches or regions (scholarship from the Global South,
queer/trans perspectives, indigenous approaches etc.) and highlighting
related potential and/or implications.
While the book sections focus on data, methodology, theory and edges,
these aspects are to be elucidated through analysis of specific
education themes, cases, topics, events etc. of relevance across
disciplines – avoiding presentism and ahistoricism.
Provisional timeline for publication:
- 31 October 2023: Deadline submission chapter proposals
- 31 March 2024: Deadline submission draft chapters
- 31 August 2024: Deadline submission revised chapters
- 31 December 2024: Envisaged publication date
Contact Email
Geert.Thyssen@hvl.no
