Programme - Central Events

In 2014 EERA is celebrating its 20th anniversary. This event offers an excellent opportunity to look back on the development and impact of educational research in Europe – as well as looking forward to its future. The EERA/ECER conference in Porto 2014 provides a time and space for the educational research community to be self-reflexive – to evaluate its strengths, weaknesses and possibilities.

ECER 2014 will welcome five keynote speakers: Madeleine Arnot, Gert Biesta, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, António Nóvoa and Agnès van Zanten.

The theme of ECER 2014 is “The Past, Present and Future of Educational Research in Europe”. The keynote speakers have shared their research and arguments in their keynotes over the past days. At the EERA Panel all five will discuss with each other and also enter into dialogue with the audience.

WERA, the World Education Research Association, organizes a symposium at ECER. This year it focuses on Diversity in Educational Settings – Global Challenge, Regional Solutions, Different Research Perspectives.

Anniversary Roundtable with former EERA presidents and secretary generals about significance of EERA and its future

#ECER204 - EERA President and Treasurer inform on benefits of EERA membership and on how to establish a Research Association.
Date: Wednesday, 3/Sep/2014: 9:00am - 10:30am
Room: B215

This session aims to present the Portuguese educational system on the principles that guide its organization, on functions attached to various subsystems and education levels, on the reforms that have taken place and on the impact it has originated.

The workshop will summarise the results of the convenors' meeting in Berlin in June and will further develop emerging themes across networks. We encourage the participation of network convenors but the workshop is open to all ECER 2014 participants and will be a hands-on event encouraging debate, collaboration and new forms of knowledge gathering.

EERA recently accepted the opening of a new EERA network on Organizational Education. It starts at #ECER2014 with an Inaugural Symposium in Sessions 10 and 11.

Thursday, September 4th, 17.15-18.45h ( 00 SES 11 )
EERA Anniversary Panel

EERA is celebrating its 20th anniversary and, as the conference theme states, this event offers a good opportunity to look back on the development of educational research in Europe, but also - importantly enough - to look forward to its future.

The social event of the Main Conference will take place on Thursday, September 4, from 19.30-22.00 p.m at Casa da Música.

Awards and further events at ECER2014