Sociologies of Education Network (NW28) webinar (EERA) - Return of the Nation? Sociologies of education in an era of rising nationalism and populism
Abstract
Return of the Nation? Sociologies of education in an era of rising nationalism and populism
Time: Monday, April 17th 2023. 5PM - 6:30PM CET
In this webinar, we launch the upcoming special issue of the European Educational Research Journal on the topic of "(Re)turn of/to the nation". with Paolo Landri (CNRIRPPS) and the special issue editors Nelli Piattoeva (Tampere University), Sofia Viseu (IE-ULisboa, Portugal) and Jitka Wirthová (Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic)
The presenters offer both provocations and answers to specific empirical questions addressing the entanglements between education and nationalism. They also develop theoretical reconceptualizations and methodological innovations needed to study the phenomena today. The research within the forthcoming special issue acknowledges the double existence of education as a tool and as a product: researchers are interested in both how education helps to create the nation or nationalistic or patriotic citizens and also how various old or new nationalistic ideas, justification, and epistemologies shape education in its system, institutions, actors, and goals.
Participants:
❖ Karmijn Van De Oudeweetering (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Mathias Decuypere
(KU Leuven, Belgium): Interrogating "the nation" in European online education:
Topological forms and movements
❖ Jitka Wirthová (Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic) and Tomáš Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic): Absence of education in civil defence education: Nationalising education and its actors and knowledge
❖ Nelli Piattoeva (Tampere University), Íris Santos (Tampere University) and
Valeriia Smirnova (Tampere University, Finland): The politics of language: The case of national examinations in English in Russia
❖ Zsuzsa Millei (Tampere University, Finland) and Sirpa Lappalainen (University of
Eastern Finland, Finland): Towards Earthly politics in education: Going beyond national, global and planetary environmental imaginaries
The webinar will finish with a discussion with the audience.
Chair: Sofia Viseu, IE-ULisboa