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ECE 2014 : The European Conference on Education | Brighton, Jul 9, 2014 - Jul 13, 2014As IAFOR’s previous education conferences have shown, education has the power to transform and change whilst it can also be transformed and changed.  This theme continues into 2014 in the European, North American and Asian Conferences on Education.Globalized education systems are becoming increasing socially, ethnically and culturally diverse.  However, education is often defined through discourses embedded in Western paradigms as globalised education systems become increasingly determined by dominant knowledge economies.  Policies, practices and ideologies of education help define and determine ways in which social justice is perceived and acted out.  What counts as ‘education’ and as ‘knowledge’ can appear uncontestable but it is contestable and partial, disempowering all but dominant groups.  Discourses of learning and teaching regulate and normalise gendered and classed, racialised and ethnicised understandings of what learning is and who counts as a learner. (...)Lire la suite : http://iafor.org/iafor/ece2014-call-for-papers/Deadline: 15 mai 2014