Session Information
MC SES 14, Setting the ’Horizon 2020’ Agenda for Educational Research 3
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.
From Teacher education to collaborative professional learning: bringing the power of dialogue to Horizon 2020 challenges.
The proposed NW10 workshop will be focused on the central role of teacher education, teachers and teaching/learning in addressing the societal challenges of Horizon 2020. These challenges are real, and have the potential to provide a sense of urgency and direction to the research community, not least in educational research.
The response to these challenges should reflect the European Commission’s broad concern with the role of Science in Society, and the need to involve citizens more fully in setting agendas. Consequently, teacher education should work to develop dialogue between the external contexts of education systems and the internal practices of teaching and learning. Historically, and especially in European research projects, there has been a lack of an overall sense of direction, due to the mediation of policymakers between educational principles and teaching & learning practices. Horizon 2020 can provide this sense of direction, and the current state of financial crisis in Europe should provide an even greater incentive to develop productive dialogue between education systems and society. Teacher education research, therefore, has an exciting opportunity to transcend the assumptions of current thinking.
Some possible areas to be developed during the workshop will be:
- • Teacher education as dialogue: talking to ourselves?
- • Pupil voice and teacher education: the missing loop?
- • Teacher education quality and the role of societal concerns
- • Learning as inquiry: developing teacher curiosity in networked societies
- • Teacher knowledge and the collective classroom
- • Beyond formative assessment in teacher education: continuous professional assessment?
- • Bringing research into the classroom – solving challenges through distributed thinking?
The workshop will develop conclusions in the form of a research agenda with possibilities for mapping on to the Horizon 2020 programme when this finally appears in 2013.
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