The European Educational Research Association (EERA): The European Conference on Educational Research

WERA Sponsored Symposium

The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2011 was held at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany from September 13 to 16th. The 2011 ECER theme, “Urban Education,” focused on cities as greenhouses for educational change and educational reform in Europe and around the world.

WERA co-sponsored a symposium on September 14th on “Urban Education: Views from Two Continents,” featuring the following participants:

Chair: Lejf Moos, President EERA, Aarhus Universitet; E-mail: moos@dpu.dk

Urban Education in Latin America: Some Questions
Belmira Oliveira Bueno, University of São Paulo, Brazil; E-mail: bbueno@usp.br

Bueno Abstract [Click here]

Bueno Presentation

Capturing Mobile Lines of Flight in the Reconfiguring Schooling Landscape of the Post Apartheid City
Aslam Fataar, Department of Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University; E-mail: afataar@sun.ac.za

Fataar Abstract [Click here]

Fataar Presentation [Click here] 

Public School in Metropolitan Lima. An Institution in Extinction?
Ricardo Cuenca, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, Peru; rcuenca@iep.org.pe

Cuenca Abstract [Click here]

Cuenca Presentation [Click here]

Discussant: Yin Cheong Cheng, Hong Kong Institute of Education, President-elect, World Educational Research Association; E-mail: yccheng@ied.edu.hk

Cheng Presentation [Click here]