Conferences


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




Rethinking Educational Ethnography - Researching on-line communities and interactions - Second Annual Conference

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: