The year 2008 began with a brand new initiative of the European Association for Rearch on Learning and Instruction: our very first EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium that took place from 14 until 18 January in Stellenbosch, South Africa. EARLI hopes to start a new tradition and has decided to organi at least one Advanced Study Colloquium per year. You can find out more about the organisation of and participation in an ASC in this Association News and of cour on the EARLI website.
Besides this new initiative, EARLI has many more upcoming events this year. Nearly every Special Interest Group organis its biennial conference in 2008 and the 3rd edition of the Practice-Bad and Practitioner Rearch conference will take place in Bergen, Norway at the end of November. Indeed, also in 2008 EARLI will create lots of opportunities to meet colleagues in the field of Educational Rearch. If you would like to become more involved in EARLI you can visit our website for further information on becoming a SIG coordinator, establishing a new SIG,publishing in our journals, submitting a proposal for the writing of an EARLI position paper,
1. Report of the 1st Advanced Study Colloquium
The first EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium took place from 14 to 18 January. The theme of the confer
ence was Rearch on cultural Differences and the Influence on Education in Teaching and Teacher Education. 6 professors and 6 PhD students gathered in the beautiful university of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Often referred to as the ‘rainbow nation’, South Africa was the perfect tting for an in-depth scientific discussion on cultural differences within education. The professors prented a review article of their rearch into cultural differences and the junior rearchers prented (a part of) their rearch, bad on a full paper. An evaluation of the event showed that the small-scale meetings are experienced as very uful and interesting, allowing the participants to focus on their rearch activities and receive valuable feedback from colleagues in their rearch field. Especially for the junior rearchers, it was a great learning experience, providing them with an opportunity to meet experts in a small group tting. Are you curious about our future ASCs or maybe interested in organising an ASC yourlf? We will keep you informed through the EARLI mailing list and all information will be available on the EARLI website.
2. Conferences organid by EARLI’s Special Interest Groups
The EARLI Special Interest Groups reprent a group of rearchers who study one or more parts and/or aspects of the field of Learning and Instruction. The SIGs are responsible for activities such as minars,newsletters and publications and they give substance to the conference themes of the b
iennial confer-ence. The EARLI SIGs propo the invited speakers for the EARLI biennial conference and every other year, they organi a SIG conference.
Below you can find a list of the SIG biennial conferences that are scheduled in 2008. We are looking forward to meet-ing you at one of the events!
SIG 1
The biennial SIG 1 meeting will take place at the Seminaris Seehotel in Potsdam (www.minaris.de/potsdam) from 27 to 29 August 2008. It is the Fourth Biennial EARLI/Northumbria Asssment Conference hosted by IQB,
Humboldt University, Berlin.
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Conference theme: Challenging Asssment.
Conference website:www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/veranst/enac2008
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The biennial SIG 2 Text and Graphics conference will be organid by/at Tilburg University, the Netherlands from 27 to 29 August 2008.
Conference theme: Exploiting the opportunities: Learning with textual, graphical and multimodal reprentations. Conference website: www.earlisig2-2008/
SIG 3
The 6th International Conference on Conceptual Change will be held from 23 to 25 August 2008in the city of Turku, Finland.
Conference theme: Conceptual Change across Disciplines: Theoretical and Applied Issues.
Conference website: uk.utu.fi/konferenssit/cc2008/
SIG 4
SIG 4 is organising a meeting for the discussion of SIG members’work in progress in association with the 7th International Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference. The conference will take place in London on 15 and 16 May 2008.The SIG ssions within the conference will have a similar format to the previous SIG meeting, where veral papers were discusd in round table ssions.
Conference website: www.city.ac.uk/ceap/sotlconference/index.html
If you wish to participate in the SIG meeting, plea register for the main conference but APPEND ‘EARLI’TO YOUR SURNAME so that the conference organirs know that you are coming to the SIG event.
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20–22 June, 2008,Heerlen, the Netherlands
Combined Meeting of the AECT Division Rearch & Theory and the EARLI SIG 6 Instructional Design and SIG 7 Learning and Instruction with Computers:
Conference theme: Instructional Design for complex learning: whole-task versus part-task approaches. Conference website:www.ou.nl/eCache/DEF/1/84/525.html
3–5 September, 2008,Salzburg, Austria
EARLI SIG 7 Learning and Instruction with Computers in cooperation with SIG 6 Instructional Design announces the conference:
Beyond knowledge: the legacy of competence Meaningful computer-bad learning environments Conference website: www2.sbg.ac.at/earli2008/
SIG 8
21–23 August 2008,Turku, Finland
Biennial SIG Motivation meeting.
Conference theme: Motivation in Action.
The 2nd Summer School on Motivation will be held from 18th to 20th of August, 2008in the University of Turku, Finland.
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SIG 9
22–24 May 2008,Kristianstad, Sweden
SIG Workshop Phenomenography and Variation Theory
Conference theme: Implications of Phenomenography and Variation Theory in Practice.
Conference website:www.distans.hkr./sig9/home/EARLI.htm
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19–20 May 2008,Göteborg, Sweden
Joint SIG Conference:
SIG 10 Social Interaction in Learning and Instruction and
SIG 15 Special Educational Needs
SIG 21 Learning And Teaching In Culturally Diver Settings
Conference theme: Social interaction, Learning and Diversity.
Contact:*****************.
SIG 11
17–20 August 2008,Fribourg, Switzerland
EARLI SIG 11 Teaching and Teacher Education Conference
Contact:********************
SIG 12
The 11th International Conference of the EARLI SIG on Writing will be held at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Sweden, from 11 until 13 June 2008.
Conference website:sigwriting2008.sol.lu.
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SIG 13
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28–30 August 2008 at Florina in Greece
Contact: DimitrisPnevmatikos(****************)
SIG 14
27–29 August 2008, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The 4th EARLI SIG 14 Learning and Development Conference
Conference website: ktl.jyu.fi/ktl/earli/
SIG 16
The third meeting of the EARLI SIG on Metacognition will be hosted by the Laboratory of Educational Psychology, Counlling and Rearch, Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina (Greece), 8–10 May 2008.
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SIG 17
6–7 October2008,University of Education in Freiburg (Germany)
The next biennial meeting of the SIG 17‚ Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Learning and Instruction’will take place at the University of Education in Freiburg ww.ph-freiburg.de.
Conference theme: Integrative Perspectives on Rearch Methodologies
The programme will contain paper and poster ssions, two key-note prentations, as well as symposia.
SIG 18
28–30 August 2008,Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The German Institute for International Educational Rearch (DIPF) will host the next EARLI SIG 18 Educational Effectiveness Conference on “Educational Effectiveness: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for Rearch”.
Conference website: www.dipf.de/earli_sig18.htm
SIG 19
28–30 August 2008,Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
EARLI SIG 19 Religious and Spiritual Education Conference
Conference theme: World Views in Religious and Spiritual Education.
Contact: *****************************.uk
3. JURE 2008 Conference, 8–11 July 2008, LEUVEN, BELGIUM
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Conference theme: Innovative and Creative Perspectives: New Directions in Educational Rearch.
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The JURE 2008 conference will be held in the beautiful and vibrant city of Leuven in Belgium. The conference pres-ents a great opportunity for junior rearchers to discuss and receive feedback on their rearch and to get involved with other rearchers in the same area.
Plea consult the conference website for more information: www.earli-jure2008
4. 13TH BIENNIAL EARLI CONFERENCE 2009, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
Conference theme: Fostering Communities of learners.
The University of Amsterdam (Graduate School of Teaching and Learning, and SCO Kohnstamm Institute) and the Free University (Educational Center) have joined forces in organising the biennial EARLI conference in 2009. The conference will take place at the University of Amsterdam, Roeteriland complex.
The collaboration between the three institutes is reflected in the organisation of the local organising committee. Prof.dr. Jos Beishuizen (Free University) was elected conference president; H ans Prein, director of the SCO Kohnstamm Institute, is conference manager and the University of Amsterdam has eight members in the local organising committee.
The conference theme will be Communities of learners. Brown and Campione (1996) laid down the framework for the educational concept of the community of learners. In a community of learners students are treated as partners in the process of knowledge building. Together with teachers and rearchers they work on conducting rearch in order to shed light on questions related to core concepts and ideas in the domain of interest. Students become members of the community of learners as soon as they learn to adopt and apply the methods of rearch and rules for co-opera-tion and communication, which are generally adhered to in the community. Through the process of reflection students
millEarli Association News / Learning and Instruction18 (2008) III–VII VII become aware of the methods and rules, which enable them to apply the methods and rules in new situations. In a community of learners students are allowed to access and u the same resources as teachers and rearchers.
Your next EARLI 2009 deadline: 31st October, 2008
Full details can be obtained from the conference website: www.earli2009/
Kindly note that EARLI members who pay their membership fees for 2008 can benefit from reduced
conference fees when registering for the EARLI conference in 2009.
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5. Position Paper: Invitation to comment
In EDUREV2 (2007) 145–157, you could read the EARLI position paper entitled “Towards a new, complexity sci-ence of learning and education” by T. Jörg, B. Davis and G. Nickmans. The authors argue that the field of learning and education is in a crisis and that current paradigms in educational science are unable to resolve the problems that are encountered in pedagogical practice. The nature of educational rearch is scrutinized and the authors elaborate on the possibility of a new science, better fitted to our rapidly evolving, ever-more-complicated times. The authors refer to the new complexity paradigm which involves implications not only for educational rearch but also for cur-rent practices in education. It involves for example an abandonment of the desire to pre-determine outcomes when taking the complexity of reality into account. Education then should become possibility-oriented instead of ends-ori-ented. Since this paper concerns the fundamentals of social science, EARLI thought it worthwhile to stimulate dis-cussion on this issue in the educational rearch community. In this issue of EDUREV, we publish the comments and feedback that we received from various educational rearchers. Through this we hope to contribute to the discussion and stimulate reflection about our scientific roots. If you want to comment on the position paper, plea
e-mail to ***************************.be.AllcommentswillbepublishedontheEARLIwebsite.
6. 3rd Practice-Bad and Practitioner Rearch Conference 2008, Bergen, Norway
After the successful Practice-Bad and Practitioner Rearch conferences in 2006 and 2007, EARLI has decided to organi a third edition of this event in Bergen, Norway, from 26 until 28 November 2008. This conference welcomes persons who are interested in the promotion and development of educational practices in educational and business context. The conference covers inquiry activities from different stakeholders within the broad field of education: prac-titioner rearchers, educational developers, educational technologists, instructional designers, educational policy makers, people involved in organisational change in educational institutions, teachers, trainers, academic rearchers in the field of applied education, and any other persons who wish to contribute to the development of education. We hold the view that knowledge creation and knowledge application are bound to one another, which is why the involve-ment of the different stakeholders and the promotion of interaction between the persons are en as of utmost importance. For more information about theme, submission procedure and deadlines, plea visit the conference web-site: www.earli-pbpr/
