What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the right to
education ?
Distances et savoirs is launching a call for research and “good
practices” papers to be published in 2008 concerning distance education and
the right to education (in particular reference to article 26 of the
Universal Declaration of the Human Rights of December 10th, 2008) :
What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the
right to education ? How is distance education involved when education
is seen as a right ? What is its position in educational policy, as a
factor of quality and an instrument for liberty.
This theme can be approached from multiple points of view, pedagogical,
sociological, economical, political, legal, … as developed in the enclosed
description.
Distances et savoirs is a scientific journal on distance education
revue scientifique francophone, whose purpose is to promote research work
and case studies on distance education, in the French speaking world. It is
also open to other international articles.
Distances et savoirs is launching
this call for papers in collaboration with five other scholarly journals
with international influence and readership in Europe, North America, Asia, so as to promote reciprocal knowledge of
research work and practices on the central theme of distance education and
the right to education.
Scientific committee
Terry Anderson, Barbara Spronk (IRRODL), John Bourne, Janet Moore (JALN),
Reidar Roll, Svein Haaland, Ana Perona (Open Praxis), Paul Kawachi, Sanjaya
Mishra, Ramesh C Sharma (AsianJDE), Alan Tait (EURODL) and Martine Vidal,
Monique Grandbastien, Pierre Moeglin (D&S).
Final texts selected by each participating journal (according to the
usual scientific process of anonymous expertise) will be published in their
original language on a common website, with free access ; they may also be
published on the usual web sites of the journals, and in the printed
versions of those journals, either in their original language or translated.
Authors will benefit from a wide international dissemination, and their
works will make up a common international reference regarding distance
education and the universal question of the right to education.
Schedule :
- October 2006 : call for papers ;
- January 31st, 2007 : deadline for submitting summaries of
propositions for articles (500 to 1000 maximum words) ;
- April 1st, 2007 : Notification to authors of selected propositions ;
- December 1st, 2007 : deadline for submitting the first version of
full text ;
- January 1st, 2008 : Final versions of texts ;
- Spring 2008 : All selected texts published on common website of
participating journals.
For Distances et savoirs abstracts are to be sent to :
martine.vidal@cned.fr.
Information concerning texts format :
www.cned.fr/ds/appels.
Articles will have to conform to usual scholarly requirements : research
questions, methodology, references, contextualisation, results and
implications.
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