Network Activities

The Network continued to develop its communication channels. Two blog posts are planned for submission to the EERA Blog this year: one reflecting on NW7’s 30th anniversary celebrations and the other presenting the joint network workshop.

The EERA NW7 Newsletter, published in November 2025, brought together Network news and recent publications by members, including journal articles, books, book chapters and research reports. It also shared calls for conferences, seminars and webinars. Read the EERA NW7 Newsletter https://sway.cloud.microsoft/qECGEvCHsU7AgNbb?ref=Link

A planned publication on "30 Years of EERA in 2024 - 30 Years of NW 07 in 2026," is underway with a call for papers in preparation. This book will commemorate the themes of social justice and intercultural education, reflecting on the journey from past to present and looking toward the future. It aims to spotlight valuable contributions throughout a historical and social timeline, featuring insights from former link convenors and convenors, as well as current and emerging perspectives on the topic.

NW7’s links with academic journals include ongoing work on special issues for Tertium Comparationis and Intercultural Education, involving members of the Network as guest editors and contributors. Further details are provided below.

NW 7 has three publications in progress, reflecting its continued engagement with collaborative and transdisciplinary research initiatives:

• Special Issue: “Teaching from the Margins Across Continents”. Guest-edited by Drorit Lengyel, Carola Mantel and Lisa Rosen, this special issue is scheduled for publication in Tertium Comparationis, issue 1/2027. It brings together international and comparative research on minoritised teachers, pre-service teachers and other educational professionals. Contributions examine how professional roles, recognition, belonging and agency are negotiated within unequal institutional contexts. The special issue will be published open access.

• Special issue: “Decent Protection? Social Inclusion, Education, and the Complex Realities of Refugee Lives in the European Migration Regime” (provisional title). Guest-edited by Sofia Almeida Santos, Lisa Rosen and Rory McDaid, this special issue builds on a symposium held at ECER 2025 and is scheduled for publication in Intercultural Education in 2026. It will bring together approximately six to eight articles on migration and refugee education, exploring intersectionality, social inclusion, and formal and non-formal educational responses across European contexts.

• Handbook of Reflexive Research Methods for Social Justice and Equity in Education. Edited by Lisa Rosen (corresponding editor), Zsuzsanna Árendás, Bianca Baßler, Fenna tom Dieck, Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen and Søren Sindberg Jensen, this handbook is being prepared for publication in the EERA Book Series “Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research” with Springer. It draws, among other sources, on contributions presented at ECER 2025 in response to the joint special call “Arts-based research and education: School and Community Engagement, Participation, Innovation and Power-Sharing”, organised by Networks 7 (Social Justice and Intercultural Education), 20 (Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments) and 29 (Research on Arts Education). The handbook examines reflexive research methods for advancing social justice and equity in education, including arts-based and participatory approaches that support knowledge co-creation, school and community engagement, and critical reflection on power relations throughout the research process.

For ECER 2027, NW7 is preparing two Special Calls:

• The Special Call: Colorism as a Continuing Challenge for Educational Research and Practice will address colorism as a concern for social justice and intercultural education, examining how skin color hierarchies are learned, reproduced or eventually challenged, and how they shape belonging and educational experiences. Drawing on critical pedagogy and intersectionality, the call will invite theoretical and empirical contributions from Europe and beyond, across formal, non-formal and informal education. Particular emphasis will be placed on participants’ perspectives, context-sensitive inquiry, research ethics and researchers’ positionality. The call will encourage collaboration with educators, teachers, learners, families and communities, aiming to connect research on colorism with educational responses that challenge inequalities associated with skin color.

• The Special Call: Teacher education for the multilingual classroom: a social justice approach to linguistic and cultural diversity which brings together NW31: Language and Education, NW7: Social Justice and Intercultural Education, and NW10: Teacher Education to explore how teacher education can better prepare teachers for multilingual classrooms and contribute to more socially just education. 

A further development this year was the establishment of a dedicated communication team within the convenorship, comprising Hanna Tomaszewska-Pękała, Leyla Safta-Zecheria and Ábel Bereményi. The team will provide communication across the Network’s channels and social media platforms and increase the visibility of members’ activities and contributions.