List of EERA Networks

1. Professional Learning and Development

Keywords: professional learning, professional development; leadership development; professional learning communities; mentoring and coaching; practitioner research; models, policy and practice; evaluation and impact.

2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)

Keywords: VET-related policies; Comparisons of VET systems and cultures; Practice based learning in VET; learning designs in VET; New learning designs and new media in VET; Curricular innovations in VET.

3. Curriculum

Keywords: curriculum policy; curriculum design/development; educational change; curriculum implementation; professional development; school development; textbook development.

4. Inclusive Education

Keywords: inclusive education; rights and participation; social models of disability; families; empowerment

5. Children and Youth at Risk and Education

Keywords: Urban education; children, youth and schools at risk; preventing dropout and improving results for children and youth; interprofessional collaboration; partnerships in education; effective educational and youth policy.

6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures

Keywords: Media education, open learning, media cultures, converging media, multimodality in teaching, distance education.

7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education

Keywords: Social justice; Intercultural education; Identity development; (im)migration; Power relations; Voices of minorities and marginalized people; Contextualized educational research; Language and culture

8. Health and Wellbeing Education

Keywords: health and wellbeing education policy and practice; school-based health promotion; school development; participation and learning; health and wellbeing; professional development related to health and wellbeing education; curricula and pedagogies for health and wellbeing

9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement

Keywords: Assessment; evaluation; testing; measurement; system monitoring; assessment quality; impact on policy and practice.

10. Teacher Education Research

Keywords: Initial teacher education; professional development; teacher induction; teacher qualification; pedagogical approaches; teacher educator identity; research capacity building.

11. Educational Improvement and Quality Assurance

Keywords: quality approaches; quality models; educational improvement; quality predictors; quality indicators; quality certification; quality of education impact; quality of educational systems; quality of educational institutions or entities; quality of educational processes.

12. Open Research in Education

Keywords: library and information sciences; knowledge organisation; information literacy; scholarly communication; digital/virtual libraries.

13. Philosophy of Education

Keywords: Ethical, political, aesthetic and epistemologial dimensions of Educational Theory; philosophical issues connected to educational practice, educational policy, educational research; formal and informal education and upbringing; different philosophical, theoretical schools or cultural traditions.

14. Communities, Families, and Schooling in Educational Research

Keywords: Rural schooling; urban schooling; place based and place conscious education; educational trajectories and transitions; school-family-community links; parental and familial involvement in schools.

15. Research on Partnerships in Education

Keywords: Partnership; collaborative work; cooperation; collaborative practitioner research; network experience.

16. ICT in Education and Training

keywords: ICT-based education; learning and training; ICT-based instruction; ICT-based innovation; ICT-based assessment; evaluation research.

17. Histories of Education

Keywords: history; visual; space; educational reform; educational sciences; diversity; schooling.

18. Research in Sport Pedagogy

Keywords: Sport; physical activity; pedagogy; sport policy; health and wellbeing; personal and social development; teachers and coaches.

19. Ethnography

Keywords: Ethnography; narrative research; fieldwork; representation; observation; life histories; organizational culture; practitioner research; professional learning communities; professional development; educational change; partnerships in education

20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments

Keywords: Innovative strategies for intercultural teaching and its learning; Intercultural discourses and the role of inclusive and intercultural education; Local identities and European citizenship.

21. Education and Psychoanalysis

Keywords: education; psychoanalysis

22. Research in Higher Education

Keywords: academic work; employability; governance; higher education; learning; policy; teaching.

23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education

Keywords:Critical social science; the politics of policy making in education; power relations and education; education policy and the politics of equity; education and the politics of inclusion; Europeanisation, globalisation and education; transformations in the governing of education; research policies and politics; knowledge-policy relationships; policies and the politics of educational knowledge.

24. Mathematics Education Research

Keywords: Children’s learning of mathematics; Children’s mathematical thinking (when doing mathematics/solving mathematical tasks); Theoretical perspectives in mathematics education research; Mathematics teacher knowledge in/for teaching; Mathematics teacher learning and professional development; Mathematics teacher noticing; Assessment in mathematics education; Affect in mathematics education; Technology and tools in mathematics education; Mathematical reasoning and proof; Special educational needs in mathematics education; Mathematics curriculum; Mathematics curriculum resources; Mathematical tasks; Comparative and international studies in mathematics education.

25. Research on Children's Rights in Education

Keywords: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; children’s rights; children as citizens; educational contexts and children’s rights; childhood and rights; children’s voice; children’s participation.

26. Educational Leadership

Keywords: educational leadership; principal; leadership; governance; governing; middle level management and leadership; superintendence; management; educational administration; professionalization; system leadership; administration; leadership preparation; teacher leadership; leadership in relation to effectiveness; accountability; autonomy and health

27. Didactics - Learning and Teaching

Keywords: didactic research; applied research; comparative didactics; domain-specific or subject didactics; Joint Action Theory in Didactics; “Bildung” as teaching and as learning objective; didactic sense construction; learner development; educational experience; domain specific didactics

28. Sociologies of Education

Keywords: Sociology; Europe; Knowledge; Learning; Mobility; Actor-Networks; Post-national; Comparison; Governing; Translation.

29. Research on Arts Education

Keywords: Research on arts education; comparative and international studies on arts education; policies and curricula on arts education; arts based research; arts based pedagogy; philosophy of the arts and education; higher arts education; arts education history.

30. Environmental and Sustainability Education Research, ESER

Keywords:Environmental and sustainability education, environmental education, education for sustainable development, global education, outdoor education, and socio-scientific issues in science education, educational policy, institutional and curriculum development, pedagogical practice, professional development, and learner empowerment.

31. LEd – Network on Language and Education

Keywords: educational linguistics, literacy research, language acquisition, language assessment, second and foreign language research, multilingualism

32. Organizational Education

Keywords: Educational Research on Organizations, Organizational Learning, Educational Management, Knowledge Management, Organizational Culture, Learning Culture

33. Gender and Education

Keywords:gender (in)equality in education; educational sciences; gender performance; gender sensitive education; teacher education and professional development for gender sensitive teaching; gendered educational choices; gender binary and education; policy on gender equality in education.

34. Research on Citizenship Education

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