International Congress on Cooperation and Education: Africa and the World

II INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON COOPERATION AND EDUCATION

COOPERATION AND EDUCATION: AFRICA AND TE WORLD

5th and 6th July 2012 | ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon

Call for PANELS – II COOPEDU



We are pleased to invite interested panel organizers to submit proposals for inclusion in II INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON COOPERATION AND EDUCATION (II COOPEDU).

II COOPEDU http://www.coopedu.cea.iscte.pt/ is organized by the Centro de Estudos Africanos do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa http://cea.iscte.pt/ (Center of African Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon) and by the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria http://www.ipleiria.pt/(School of Higher Education, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria). The overall theme of the congress is COOPERATION AND EDUCATION: AFRICA AND THE WORLD. The main goal is to extend and deepen the issues addressed in I COOPEDU (4-5 February 2010, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon), forging continuity in reflections on cooperation in educational issues between countries in Africa and those in other regions and continents.

The II COOPEDU Organizing Committee invites panel organizers to submit proposals. Panels may comprise one or two sessions depending on the number of papers that will be presented. Each session (2 hours) will consist of four or five papers, with a chair and a discussant or two chairs.

In light of the scope and diversity of a Congress about cooperation in education in Africa on a global scale, we welcome other proposals, and would suggest that the panels are organized around the following major analytical axes:

  1.  Local, national and international languages: challenges, opportunities and risks;
  2.  Education reforms, standardized procedures and systems and their implications;
  3.  Management and ownership of schooling and knowledge (public, private and cooperative);
  4.  The role of civil society in education and training;
  5.  International circulation of students, teachers and researchers: networking and partnerships.

The official Congress languages are Portuguese and English. Submissions should be in English or in Portuguese and English and include:

  *  Panel title;
  *  Name(s), affiliation(s), e-mail of panel proposer(s);
  *  A 3000 character (maximum) outline describing the panel topic.

The panels will be selected by the Scientific Committee and will be made public the 4th of March 2012.

Submissions should be made in pdf-format to coopedu.cea@iscte.pt<http://uk.mc1613.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=coopedu.cea@iscte.pt>. The deadline for panel proposals is 1st February 2012.