Call for Papers
Conference Theme: Education research in a changing world
The 2024 Annual Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE 2024) conference invites delegates to consider the diverse ways in which educational research addresses the circumstances of a world in which the co-ordinates of social life are shifting. What role does and can education research play in the face of global crises that are also being lived out locally? Increasing social polarisation, intensifying global climate emergency, devastating wars and humanitarian disasters, the divisive politics of racism and xenophobia, changes in the way we communicate and connect, challenges to democracy, truth and authoritative knowledge, and major reforms across education sectors nationally and internationally – these are but a few of the many immediately pressing issues demanding the attention of education researchers and practitioners alike.
Education is characteristically positioned as both a harbinger of change and a cog in the social machinery sustaining systems of inequality and injustice and resisting change. Yet this familiar assessment of the contradictory possibilities represented by education does not go very far in helping us to understand the particular ways in which education systems, ideas, and practices work across varied contexts, times and places. Grappling with these challenges requires an attentiveness to the many temporalities of education and to the different ways in which education research is configured in relation to change; is it education research in, for, and/or about change?
Education is a dynamic field, and it is thus not surprising that concepts of change figure prominently. Addressing the many dimensions of change, however, involves more than simply reiterating tropes of ‘unprecedented change’ or ‘new times’. Change can be conceived as a kind of general backdrop to the research and work we do. But this Call for Papers encourages researchers to interrogate the specific form and effects of change and processes of transformation in the present, in earlier times and into the future. This is a broad brief which encompasses, but is not limited to: change at social, cultural, political, and macro systems’ levels; policy and legislative reform; institutional reforms and initiatives; epochal and generational change; biographical and identity change; innovations in epistemologies and methodologies; and transformations both affecting and originating from diverse communities, regions and places.
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