ECER Keynotes

Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D. in sociology, is professor of education and director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University. In 1995, she established the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS), which guides educators to develop research-based programs of family and community engagement.

Joyce's keynote is entitled "Imperative Connections: Using Research to Develop Programs of School, Family, and Community Partnerships for Student Success in School".

Ramon Flecha is Doctor Honoris Causa of the West University of Timişoara and Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona. The main conclusion of the first project he led from the European Union’s Framework Program (FP5), WORKALÓ, The creation of new occupational patterns for cultural minorities: The gypsy case was unanimously approved by the European Parliament giving rise to various European and Member States policies.

Ramon's keynote is entitled "How Dialogic Educational Research Reconnects Communities".

Isabel Menezes has a degree and a PhD in Psychology and a habilitation in Educational Sciences from the University of Porto, where she is a Full Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences. She is a member of CIIE, research center in educational research and intervention, and teaches in the fields of Educational Research, Educational and Community Intervention, Political Education and Political Psychology.

Isabel's keynote is entitled "On the Significance of Connecting and Dissenting for Political Education: An ecological-situated view of schools as communities within communities".

Riyad A. Shahjahan is an Associate Professor of Higher, Adult and Life Long Education (HALE) at Michigan State University. He is also a core faculty member of Muslim Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Asian Studies Center, and Center for Advanced Study of International Development.

Riyad's keynote is entitled "On a 'Calculating Way of Being': The Perils of Datafication on Re/Connecting Communities".

On the EERA YouTube Channel you can find a playlist of all 2020 keynotes, interviews with network link convenors and keynote videos from previous years.
Link to #ReconnectingEERA playlist