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FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

ERNAPE-ARCTIC

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

TERNAPE and University of Tromsø - Arctic University of Norway, invite all interested researchers to submit proposals for ERNAPE-ARCTIC - the European Research Network About Parents in Education Conference 2015. The bi-annual conference held by the European Research Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE), welcomes 150 scholars every second year, representing views and research traditions from all parts of Europe. CONFERENCE THEME: "SCHOOLS, PARENTS AND COMMUNITIES ? BUILDING NEW FUTURES THROUGH RESEARCH AND INNOVATION" 22 years have passed since the establishment of the European Research Network About Parents in Education, and ERNAPE is celebrating its 10th biannual conference in 2015. While such anniversaries often trigger the need to contemplate over the years that have passed and the accomplishments that have been made, the ERNAPE-ARCTIC aspires to be more forward than backward looking and to focus on future accomplishments within the field of research on schools, parents and communities. In a Europe still struggling in the aftermaths of the economic crisis that hit in the fall of 2008, the nations of Europe call upon the educational system to solve their problems. With frequent assessments, international comparisons of education outcome measures and supra-national education markets, the pressure is on for local schools, principals and school administrators and individual teachers. How do parents and communities fit into this picture ? and how should we as researchers respond to these challenges, now and in the future? MAIN FOCAL POINTS The forward-looking profile of ERNAPE-ARCTIC is reflected in the two main focal points of the conference. Firstly, ERNAPE-ARCTIC will have a special focus on children. The child and its learning processes is the ultimate rational for our research endeavors on parents in education, and in the school-parent-student triangle discussions on children?s agency are called for. Also, as kindergartens and preschool services are bec

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FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren