- Home
- Rationale
- Journal
- Conferences
- Book Series
- Publications
- Projects
- Contact
The Oxford Ethnography Conference (OEC) is held annually in September in Oxford, England over 2 days and has existed since 1977. It is a small conference where about 60 papers are distributed prior to the conference and 40 minutes is given to each paper presentation in three parallel sessions with the author/s only given 10 minutes introduction. The rest of the time is given to discussion of some of the issues arising from the paper. There are a regular wide range of experienced and inexperienced delegates from the United States and North and South America, Europe and the Near and Far East including Australia. We also encourage PhD students, in particular, who find the format very useful. Many of the articles are then submitted to our journal Ethnography and Education.
The 2012 conference will be held from 19-21 September at New College, Oxford.
The call for papers can be accessed here
This second edition of Rethinking Educational Ethnography: Researching on-line communities and interactions is organised by the Centre for the Study of Change in Culture and Education (CECACE) and the Department of Educational Management, at the University of Barcelona, Spain, in collaboration with ECER Network 19. 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. In 2011 this debate gave rise to the first annual Rethinking Educational Ethnography conference, held at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, and to a second gathering within the ECER Network 19 in Berlin. Our aim for the 2012 encounter is to build on the knowledge generated in previous meetings, with the aim of sharing and debating emergent practices in the field of virtual educational ethnography.
This conference seeks to encourage discussion on epistemological, methodological and theoretical perspectives. The event will benefit from the contributions of researchers from different countries and will host leading scholars on the subject.
The main objectives of this conference are:
The call for papers can be accessed here
Ethnography and Education to sponsor an international one-day seminar on
SPACE, PLACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Ethnography and Education, along with the European Education Research Association (EERA), the British Education Research Association (BERA) and the Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI) at Manchester Metropolitan University, is sponsoring this key international event.
As the drive for uniformity in the European and global education project increasingly abuts against spatialities of deepening social injustice embedded in asymmetric power relations, questions of how we might deepen our interrogations of space, place and social justice with respect to education are paramount. This seminar, which originated from a conversation between ethnographers and geographers of education at the 2010 European Conference of Education Research (ECER), will bring together a broad, multi-disciplinary audience interested in exploring these issues. Participants will hear internationally acclaimed keynote speakers, share dialogue around presented papers and begin an international dissemination process which will include a research seminar at the European Conference on Education Research (ECER) in Cadiz in 2012, a podcast distributed via the European Education Research Association (EERA) and publication of selected papers.
Ethnography and Education is a key player in this event and sponsorship will be in two forms. Ethnography and Education will offer one bursary to support conference fee, travel and accommodation for a researcher making a contribution that focuses on issues arising from ethnographic work. The journal will also facilitate publication of an edited collection of papers generated by the conference.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Valerie Walkerdine of Cardiff University. Other speakers to be confirmed.
The event will be at:
Education and Social Research Institute,
Didsbury Campus,
Manchester Metropolitan University
Friday July 13th, 2012
If you want to register interest and be kept up to date contact: Geoff Bright, Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Manchester Metropolitan University, UK at G.Bright@mmu.ac.uk
The official call for papers will be sent out in autumn 2011, abstracts to be submitted in early 2012 and full papers in the spring.
The European Conference on Educational Research 2012 will take place in the University of Cádiz from 17-21 September 2012. There is a call for papers here.