Call for papers for ECE 2013 - The European Conference on Education, Last Date for submission of abstraction: March 1 2013

ECE is an international, intercultural and interdisciplinary event, and will give delegates the chance to listen to the latest news and research from scholars around the world, and great networking opportunities across higher education. Academics working throughout the world are encouraged to forge working relationships with each other, and facilitate partnerships across borders as part of the wider IAFOR community.

Conference Theme: Learning and Teaching Through Transformative SpacesAs previous IAFOR Conferences on Education have shown, education and lifelong learning can be seen as a solution to a host of local and global problems whilst globalized education systems are becoming increasingly socially, ethnically and culturally diverse. Nevertheless, knowledge is often defined through discourses embedded in Western paradigms, as globalised education systems become increasingly determined by dominant knowledge economies.The Inaugural European Conference on Education extends these discussions to consider the pedagogic challenges of developing transformative spaces for learning and teaching. The conference organizers encourage submissions that consider learning and teaching through one of the following sub-themes, although submission of other topics for consideration is also welcome:- Challenges and transformations in learning and teaching- Virtual spaces: digital technologies and communications- Connections and disconnections in learning and teaching- Learning and teaching in glocal spaces of transformation- Space, Architecture and Learning- Global education and education for sustainable development- 'Englishes' and cultural communications- (Inter)cultural communications and understanding: challenging and preserving cultural differences- Leadership in learning and teaching- Bi-cultural, bilingual and bi-national educationWe hope to see you for our first conference in Europe in 2013!Professor Stuart D. B. Picken, Order of the Sacred TreasureChair, IAFOR International Advisory BoardECE 2013 Conference Programme AdvisersProfessor Sue JacksonPro-Vice-Master, Learning and Teaching, Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender, Birkbeck, University of LondonProfessor Michiko NakanoProfessor of Education and Director of the Distance Learning Center, Waseda UniversityProfessor Mary StuartVice-Chancellor, University of LincolnProfessor Judith Chapman, A.M.Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University and Fellow, St Edmund's Hall, Cambridge UniversityProfessor David AspinProfessor Emeritus of Education and Former Dean, Monash UniversityProfessor Tien-Hui ChiangProfessor of Education, National Tainan UniversityPublishing Opportunities: Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally reviewed IAFOR Journal of Education.ECE is the partner conference of the Asian Conference on Education (ACE), Asia's leading education conference, and a great forum for exchanging the latest ideas and views. Since its inception in 2009, ACE has welcomed over one thousand academics and practitioners to its annual Osaka event. For more information about the Asian Conference on Education, please go towww.ectc.iafor.orgHear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience the UK, explore Brighton and London and the UK, join a global academic community

ECE 2013 - The European Conference on Education 11th to 14th July 2013 Brighton, United Kingdom Enquiries: ece@iafor.org Web address: http://www.ece.iafor.org/ Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) in partnership with Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), University of Lincoln (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Auburn University (USA), and its global partners is proud to announce the Inaugural European Conference on Education, to be held from July 11-14 2013, in Brighton, UK.