Invitation to NERA pre-conference
Network 22, Post-approaches to Education (November 2-3, 2021)
It is our pleasure to invite you to the pre-conference for NERA 2021 in Odense, Denmark. We invite junior (PhD/doctoral students) and senior scholars interested in, curious or critical about, the post-approaches to education to join the pre-conference. The purpose of the pre-conference is to strengthen the research network around post-approaches to education in the Nordic countries, and to allow for meetings and academic debate between PhD/doctoral students and seniors.
This year’s pre-conference theme is Quality Criteria for Posthuman Educational Research. Educational research is usually placed in the social sciences with qualitative methodological approaches. However, posthuman theory and its post-qualitative methodological approaches challenge the foundations of qualitative research. Nevertheless, questions remain as to what constitutes post-qualitative research of high quality? How do different actors in posthuman educational research value articles and research proposals? The aim of the pre-conference is to discuss and develop quality criteria for posthuman and post-qualitative research. Further, we want to discuss what quality criteria means from a posthuman perspective and how to make better posthuman educational research.
This year’s pre-conference is closely tied around the theme of quality criteria with the aim to co-create meaning through a series of workshops and discussions. The pre-conference is free of charge; coffee/dinner is paid for by the attendee.
The pre-conference can host a limited amount of participants. Please register to simon.ceder@konstfack.se as soon as possible, but no later than October 15th.
You will find a preliminary schedule and suggested reading on the next page. The final schedule will be sent to registered participants.
Hope to see many of you in Odense!
The warmest of welcome,
Simon Ceder Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas
Preliminary program
November 2nd, at University
November 3rd, in central Odense
13:00 Introduction and presentation
13:15 Workshop 1: Inventory
14:30 Coffee
15:00 Handling quality in research and publication – insights and challenges from journal editors. Presentation from the RERM editors Ann Merete Otterstad, Jayne Osgood, Lotta Johansson & Camilla Eline Andersen
16:00 Workshop 2: Investigation
17:00 End of day 1
19:00 Dinner in central Odense
09:00 Workshop 3: Intervention
10:30 Summary
11:00 End of day 2.
Suggested reading
If you want to come more prepared, here are a few relevant articles for this year’s theme.
Koro-Ljungberg, M. (2019). Thinking, willing and judging in (post)qualitative research: A series of resettings. In F. Huckaby (Ed.) Making research public in troubled times: Pedagogy, activism and critical obligations. Myers Education Press.
Thompson, T.L. & Adams, C. (2020). Accountabilities of posthuman research. Explorations in Media Ecology, 19(3), 337-349. https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00050_7