ECER 2027 – NW 32 Special Call

Learning Communities and Shared Futures in Organizational Education
NW 32. Organizational Education
With our call, Network 32 invites scholars from organizational education and related disciplines to engage with the theme “Learning Communities and Shared Futures in Organizational Education”. Papers and symposia might address questions such as: ● How do learning communities, learning networks and other collective arrangements use instruments of imagination to create shared futures? ● In which spaces, places and in-between spaces does learning about futures take place in and between organizations? ● When and how do fictional expectations become credible and institutionalized? ● How do organizations enable and structure the contestation over imagined futures? ● What does engaging with open, uncertain futures do to organizations and its members? They might refer to: ● Theories of organizational learning, learning communities, imagination, and shared futures ● Relevant Research Methodologies ● Empirical Cases ● Conceptual Debates and Contributions