Annual Report 2013 Istanbul

This year 107 proposals had been received in the first round . There were 13 re-directed proposals from the other networks in the second round. So we received in total 120 proposals. More than 5 applications were from following countries: Sweden, Norway, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain and Belgium. There were less than 5 proposals from countries in other parts of Europe.

Network 7 had a full program in Istanbul existing of two parallel sessions during the whole conference.

Network 7 has always valued collaborations with other networks. This year there were 4 joint sessions with these networks:  Network 20 [ Research in innovative intercultural learning environments; Network 19  [Ethnography] and Network 26  [Educational Leadership].

The topics at the conference were:

• intercultural education
• linguistic diversity
• identity policies
• social justice and schoolleader perspectives
• Roma people
• Roma education
• intercultural perspectives in educational policies
• intercultural educational practices
• social justice practices
• teacher perceptions
• gender awareness
• education and identity formation
• social justice, achievement and cultural difference
• international encounters
• distributive justice
• language: policies and perspectives
• ethnograpy in Nordic context
• non formal intercultural learning
• identities in the margin
• challenges of diversity in pre-service teacher education.