CfP: 7th Rethinking Educational Ethnography Conference

January 16, 2018

CfP: 7th Rethinking Educational Ethnography Conference
Rethinking platforms for teaching ethnography: facing changing conceptualizations of culture and challenges from post-materialist philosophy, globalization, and mobile modernity

Budapest, 1-2 June 2018

Organized by the Faculty of Education and Psychology of Eötvös Loránd University (http://ppk.elte.hu/) and the Hungarian Pedagogical Association (http://pedagogiai-tarsasag.hu/).
This conference forms part of a long-term discussion that began in Helsinki at ECER 2010, when participating researchers discussed emerging concerns about virtual ethnography and discovered a shared interest. Since then six international conferences were organized in Boras, Helsinki, Porto, Barcelona, Napoli, Copenhagen and Klaipeda. Each year, the participants discussed an important topic related to ethnographic epistemology and methodology. The seventh international conference builds on the traditions of the previous Rethinking Ethnography meetings in collaboration with the European Educational Research Association (EERA) Network 19.

This year conference focuses on the challenges for teaching ethnography. In several European countries, educational ethnography has had a long standing and robust tradition with acknowledged experts and interested new students, while in some others, particularly in Eastern Europe, it is a relatively new methodology that are used by just few and often younger scholars. In a different way, but in both contexts the teaching and transmission of doing ethnography might have to face several challenges: the neoliberal context of cuts on research funding and race for publications, the lower prestige of ethnography in education science, and particularly the new, and changing conceptualizations of culture. The traditional concepts of culture and its inquiry are challenged by trends of post-materialist and post-modern approaches, and by the conditions of globalization and mobile modernity. Educational ethnographers realize the consequences of these changes in the field of teaching and learning. In this continuously altering context, ethnographers should find adaptive ways of teaching ethnography and transmitting the methodology, while ethnography in itself is not an easily transmittable methodology like other scientific methods, and it is neither a unidirectional process of teaching the juniors, but every ethnographer has to learn new ways of doing research. Ethnographic research on teaching and learning can inform this process of continuous learning.

The conference encourages submissions by doctoral students and more experienced ethnographic scholars. We welcome submissions that discuss completed studies, field work, theoretical considerations, or work in progress, reflections about teaching and learning ethnographic methodology. We specifically invite paper proposals, which address one or several of the following issues:

● teaching about ethnography and teaching ethnography: the academic space for ethnography and the difficult path of acquiring a changing methodology
● changing platforms for teaching and learning ethnography: new ways, alternative methods, different experiences and interpretational frameworks
● doing/teaching and learning ethnography in different geo-political contexts
● the specificities of Eastern European academia in relation to ethnography, the dynamics of centre, semi-periphery and periphery;
● neoliberal challenges for ethnographic research and its transmission
● post-modern and post-materialists philosophy and learning ethnography
● learning new methods to study teaching and learning in the context of globalization and mobile modernity
The special tradition of this conference is that it accepts only a limited number of papers (this year max. 30) and facilitates the dialog among the participants in relation to the topics raised in the papers. Once approved, a short paper with a minimum of 2000 words must be submitted. These papers will be shared with all delegates prior to the conference, in order to facilitate spending less time on presentations and more time engaging in debate and discussion during the meeting.

Website (being updated with further information about venues, accommodation, payment and program): http://rethinkingethnographybudapest.blogspot.hu/

Deadlines:
Abstract submission (on the website: https://goo.gl/forms/PD728ZBlqWIO3Ciu2) 1 March
Notification of acceptance: continuous (4-5 days after the submission)
Registration and payment: 23 March
Submission of short papers (on the website): 10 May
Participation fee (conference materials, reception, lunch and coffee): 60 Euro
E-mail: rethinkingethnographybp@gmail.com

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