Spaces and Places of Education
Porto, 16-20 July, 2019
Welcome to the ISCHE Annual Conference 2019, which will be held at the University of Porto, Portugal, between Tuesday, 16th July 2019, and Saturday, 20th July 2019, under the main theme of Spaces and Places of Education.
Studying the educational practices of the past as they took place both in and outside schools, implies the existence, preservation and use of the new sources which are the concrete evidence of those practices themselves. These evidences are represented, on the one hand, by the spaces and the material objects which were used in those practices (furniture, objects, teaching aids, schoolbooks etc.) and, on the other, by buy viagra online usa objects that provide information about those practices (such as teachers’ professional memories, exam material, reports of classroom activities, personal testimonies, exercise-books or school-notes, pupils’ works, school photographs and yearbooks, school magazines and so on).
Since the early modern era, the modern project of education has been closely associated with another modernist project, namely the clear distinction between a purportedly unchangeable ‘nature’, on the one hand, and a historically conceived, changing society, on the other. An exploration of the history of education may reveal that this clear-cut separation has been constantly challenged and undermined by hybrid phenomena and networks between these two realms. Nature has classically been a contentious subject within educational thinking, yet nature has not only been a point of reference for ideas and theories, but for educational practices as well. The European Enlightenment repositioned nature as a determining arena and the backdrop for educational practices.
The ISCHE Executive Committee invites proposals for pre-conference workshops to be held (Monday 17 July). Since 2013, members of ISCHE have organized half-day pre-conference workshops to initiate collective discussions about a specific topic. These workshops are limited in terms of participants but open to the attendees of the main ISCHE conference. Pre-conference workshops may include some invited speakers and presenters but must also include a public call for submissions. Both the convenors and all participants in pre-conference workshops are required to register for the main ISCHE conference. Participation in a pre-conference workshop will require advance registration via the general conference registration system and the overall number of participants may be limited.
