Network 28 accepted for the program of ECER 2019 in Hamburg 22 proposals in the section ‘General Submission’ and 19 proposals for the Special Call ‘Retuning Sociology of Education up’. Overall, the sessions were 17 including symposium. The sessions were very well attended (between 10 and 50 participants per session). The attendance of some sessions exceeded the room capacities. The quality of the discussions, and of the exchange of knowledge and experiences revealed the consolidation, and the attractiveness of the network.
The sessions were organized around the following themes:
- A New Materialism in Sociology of Education
- Investigating Sociologically Platforms, Online Learning, and Data Infrastructure
- Sociology of Educational Technologies: Studying AI, Educational Apps and Open Education
- Boundary Crossing Sociological Theories
- Normativity in Education and Deleuzian Sociology
- Higher Education, Transition, and Choices
- Evaluation, Assessment and the Managerialization of School: Sociological Analysis
- Inequality and Privilege in Schooling
- Teacher Subjectivation, Audit Culture and Gender 10. Classroom, Lesson, Students: Perspectives from Germany, Sweden, Portugal, and Hungary
- Teaching Under Stress Homeschooling and Therapeutic Practices in Prison
- The Interplay of Actors in the Production of Education Metrics: Examining empirical cases and theoretical assumptions Part 1
- The Interplay of Actors in the Production of Education Metrics: Examining empirical cases and theoretical assumptions Part 2
- Towards an Envisioned Research Association: Future scenarios and their possible realisation
- Re-articulating The Form Of The Political: Education governance in the
- Totally Pedagogised Societies: Diffractive engagements with Bernstein’s Sociology of Education Part 1
- Totally Pedagogised Societies: Diffractive engagements with Bernstein’s Sociology of Education Part 2
The Conference in Hamburg represented a further confirmation for the Network. The project of starting a network with clear foci of research interest, and of establishing a meeting point for encounters among sociologies of education was realized. The network offers now high quality selection of paper contribution as well as good quality of discussion and confrontation among peers. The Network decided to launch a call for paper ‘Retuning Sociology of Education up’’ that permitted to organize many sessions.
In Hamburg, the network shows further signals of maturity, and of promising developments. Network was asked to organize a workshop at ERC on ‘Positioning contemporary educational research: Political, ethical and epistemological issues’ organised and presented by: Paolo Landri (IRPPS - National Research Council – Italy) and Emiliano Grimaldi (University Federico II – Italy). Network meeting was very well attended and further collaboration emerges leading to increasing engagement in the network