Session Information
MC SES 05, Setting the ’Horizon 2020’ Agenda for Educational Research 2
Council Invited Session
Contribution
There is going to be a Societal Challenge for Social Science and Humanities in the next European Commission Framework Program, Horizon 2020. Specific Programme texts are now being produced so they can publish the first calls for application in 2013. So this is a splendid opportunity for us to interfere with the proceedings by writing proposals for topics for educational research for the next 5-7 years and forward them to the public and the DG.
In the workshops the convenor(s) from EERA networks will introduce ideas for topics, from educational research discipline perspectives or from interdisciplinary perspectives. Participants may present other topics for discussion, selection and description of reason why the Commission should include this topic.
The form will be plenary and small group discussions with room for all participants to take part in trying to set (part of) the agenda for Horizon 2020.
Possible topics for discussion:
- Our contribution will invoke what we do as philosophers of education.
One of things that worries us, is that a lot of the empirical research is very thin in terms of theories (but also of concepts). So one topic we would want to address could be "The language of education". What seems to be lacking is a theoretical framework (a lot of empirical research is short tem focused or addresses minute aspects of the process. This may not worry the general public, but the contribution of the discipline is severely limited due to these characteristics. - Another may be "Educational roles, theoretical concepts and disciplinary structures within a Europe of Education".
- Possibilities and limitations of inter-european 'employability' from an educational perspective"
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