Network 28 develops since some years a reflection about the role of the journals in the structuration of sociological framework with regard to education and training. The aim of this symposium would be to produce, from some experiences, a reflective feedback: how do these journals and the scientific framework they express manage the issue of big spaces? Most of cases, question is about the constitution of a European space of education, but the issue of this symposium is global. It can accept participations from different parts of the world.

Many journals have been founded to report about works from a scientific framework at the national level or a scientific framework corresponding to a linguistic space. New conjuncture does not only call for widening the field, but for renewing issues and a succession of conceptual shifting. It’s a question of analyzing national debates situating them on the perspective of big spaces and thinking on relations between the different scales. Some classic questions have been reformulated (educational inequalities, governance of schools, professions of education and training, etc.). Some new questions are showing up. Il seems to be essential to interrogate the devices and instruments which accompanies the implementation of the new world order: the definition of standards of competence or quality, the big surveys, etc.

Policy and social action move forward and several actions of decompartmentalizing are already on the road. Some sites seem to liberate journals of geographical constraints and spread their potential readership. New spaces of confrontation and diffusion of research findings are opening: observatories, strategic foresight, knowledge centers and other interface enterprises between research, society and policy. Of course these devices play an essential role when creating and developing a European space of knowledge. Their translation systems, for example, constitute little by little a terminology which is revealed as the common language of educational research.

How journals and scientific fields expressed through them are inserted in different dynamics for the planning of reports, the assessment of articles or the preparation of reading notes? Are them able to take as object the process of Europeanisation of educational politics and the fabrication of new cognitive frames?        

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