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all,
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A summer school which may be of interest to early career researchers
working on educational media.<br>
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All the best,
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Felicitas
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Call for Papers
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Summer school: Textbooks and Beyond: Educational Media in Global
Contexts
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- From 23 August - 28 August 2010
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- At the Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Deadline for abstracts: 25 January 2010
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This international Summer School invites applications from doctoral
candidates and post-doctoral scholars from the social sciences and
humanities who are conducting research on textbooks or other media used
in school contexts.
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While globalisation can be defined in a variety of ways, global
dimensions have clearly altered the contents, availability, production
and distribution of educational media. National forms of reference are
changing, political boundaries are shifting, and an increased awareness
of socio-cultural differences within nation states are drawing
attention to the multiple, contingent and situated nature of identity.
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The contents and pedagogical approaches of educational media, which
have traditionally depicted canonical knowledge, societal norms,
regional/national identities and culturally legitimate values, have
long been a subject of conflict and negotiation among curriculum
authorities, politicians, textbook authors, teachers and publishing
houses. A central question is now to what extent globalisation is
affecting media used in school contexts, such as museums, memorials,
commercial films, posters, advertisements, social network websites and
other online resources. These are increasingly drawing on sources far
beyond those produced for their particular local or national settings.
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The Summer School thus pursues three interrelated aims. Firstly, it
seeks to broaden participants’ understanding of current theories and
methodologies and to explore new directions in educational media
research in the light of globalisation trends. Secondly, it provides an
interdisciplinary and international forum to discuss and develop new
topics and globalised frames of reference within specific research
contexts. Finally, it aims to consolidate and develop further an
expanding network of young scholars working in this field, also with a
view to future collaboration.
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Methods and approaches will be presented and discussed in five panels
and corresponding workshops on the following topics:
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Historical
development<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> of educational media
used in schools, looking at the transnational processes involved.
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Media theory<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> and the global dimensions of
intermediality, as educational media inform and refer to other global
media.
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Diversity<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> in school learning and teaching
materials, and of the users of these materials.
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Reception
studies<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>, which must now take into
consideration the global relevancy of spaces influencing media use and
the multiplicity of receiving positions.
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Contemporary
production processes<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> and the
changes resulting from the global context of contemporary media
production, e.g. the rapid and global circulation of ideas given
today’s technology.
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The working language of the Summer School will be English.
Reimbursement of accommodation and travel costs for participants is
subject to funding.
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Application deadline: 25 January 2010
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Doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars are invited to submit
abstracts to present their research related to one of these topics and
their research interests. Please send abstracts (of no more than one
page) together with a cv and, if applicable, publication list to Dr.
Inga Niehaus at the Georg Eckert Institute (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:niehaus@gei.de">niehaus@gei.de</a>).
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