Call for Papers
Our next edition will be published in May 2012.
Submissions are welcome and details can be found in Information for Authors
Please contact the editors: Karen McArdle (k.a.mcardle) or Claire Molloy (c.a.l.molloy@abdn.ac.uk)
Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Education in the North Space, Place and Pedagogy: Local contexts in a Globalised World
Publication date: January 2013
Current discourses in education tend to seek to standardise the experience of students from diverse geographical and cultural places so that they may compete in a global economy (Gruenewald, 2003). In contrast place-based pedagogies have appeared in recent years as a means to promote an educational experience that relates directly to the student's personal understanding of the world. Yet such pedagogy is more than simply education in a locale or education outside the classroom. It is a pedagogy that needs to be critical and that must "identify and confront the ways that power works through places to limit the possibilities for human and non-human others" (Gruenewald, 2003). Hence place-based pedagogy sits at the heart of a renovated understanding of the position of the human subject as part of a living entanglement of living and non-living forms, process and product, materiality and culture.
We are inviting proposals for inclusion in this special issue of Education in the North that address the sense of place and community in education. We are interested in the variety of ways that educators have used place in engaging young people: in the learning of particular disciplinary concepts; engaging students in interdisciplinary exploration of their environment and sustainability issues; the nature of local and indigenous knowledge; the employment of narrative and/or arts-based forms of research. We are seeking to produce an all round view of the concept of place-based learning with contributions exploring epistemological stances, methodological orientations and educational approaches.
In addition to specially invited contributions we are seeking further proposals for peer-reviewed papers and book reviews addressing the theme. Proposals for papers should be approximately 1000 words including the names and affiliations of authors and a short (100 word) abstract, providing a description of any empirical research or conceptual argument.
Final invited papers should be in the region of 7000-8000 words
Deadlines
Closing date for proposals 30th November 2011
Contributors invited following review of proposals 31st January 2012
Completed articles to be submitted by 31st March 2012
Revised articles to be received by 31st August 2012
On-line publication January 2013.
Proposals should be sent to: soe-research@abdn.ac.uk
Further enquiries can be made to the Guest Editors: Donald Gray (d.s.gray@abdn.ac.uk) and Laura Colucci-Gray (l.t.gray@abdn.ac.uk)
