Working groups
WG Enlightenment and Wisdom – Thyge Winther-Jensen (chair)
Enlightenments: Swedish and Scottish and others. The State and Church and secularization. Bildung, Ausbildung, formation/formaciόn. Socrates, Confucius, Buddha as paradigms, past-and-present; doxa, episteme, sophia. Information, numbers, evidence; new technologies and wisdom and digital Bildung. Universities, think tanks, research institutes and innovation. Scientific/technological development and new dependencies. The state and the control of information and knowledge. And wisdom?
WG Social Models and Economies – Yiannis Roussakis (chair)
Collapse of the neo-liberal state? Welfare states, market states, developmental states, theocratic states; issues of social capital, social cohesion, harmony and competition; inclusion and exclusion; education, public and private; ideologies of sustainability, of lifelong learning, of youth and age, of equity, of skill formation.
WG Identities and Polities – Zlata Godler and Elisabeth Buk-Berge (chairs)
Identities: changing and stable; muddled and multiple; internalised, mobile, internationalised, schooled, gendered identities; Differenzlinien; national and global citizenship; social cohesion; religion, family and state; intercultural education and intercultural understanding; political education.
WG Creativities and Competences – Donatella Palomba (chair)
The politics of originality: a contradiction in terms? The concept of competent knowledge; and competent wisdom? Imagination and the schooling system. The music of the mind and rules of creative order and universities. Theoreticians of creativity. Humanities and sciences and skills and competences. Skill formation and the labour market: creative attitudes and critical values, or compliance? Technical vocational education, including techne and art. Competences of political, economic and social identity and notions of the 'good society'.
WG Education and Educational Governance – Hans-Georg Kotthoff (chair)
Educational autonomy and governance; ideologies of surveillance, assessment, knowledge transfer; PISA, TIMSS and “governance by numbers”; actors and systems; evaluation, quality assurance and development; leadership and management; school autonomy, choice, diversity, competitiveness; institutional, sub-national, national, regional, international governance and curriculum and school structures.
WG Teachers and Teacher Education - Vlatka Domovic (chair)
New professionalism? Standards and competences and quality assurance; research on, and in teacher education; ideologies of the teacher as a researcher and as a reflective practitioner. Teacher education reform in crisis; status, the teaching profession, Universities and the State. Socrates, Confucius, Buddha as paradigms. Teacher training and teacher education; teacher identity; teacher mobility; the Bologna process. National/European/International models; teacher autonomy; lifelong learning.
The New Scholars’ Working Group – Robert Cowen (chair)
In this Group, new scholars are invited to explore, in a seminar format, their work-in-progress. The New Scholars Group is different from the other Working Groups: it is not thematically framed. Here ideas may be tested and papers under preparation may be presented and discussed. Abstracts for this group should be submitted in the normal way.