Call for Participation
WERA Task Force Global Research in Extended Education Conference 2027
The conference invites researchers and advanced graduate students worldwide to submit papers, posters, and symposia related to extended education. It focuses on diversity, equality, and inclusion within extended educational contexts such as after-school programmes, extracurricular activities, and community-based learning. It aims to explore how these settings can support children’s learning, development, participation, and social cohesion, particularly in increasingly diverse societies.
The concept of “superdiversity”, discussed by Steven Vertovec, provides an important theoretical perspective for examining social diversity and educational practices.
The Call for Participation (CfP) is seeking submissions on educational equity, inclusion and diversity in the context of extended education. The focus is on effective approaches to equal opportunities, gender-sensitive pedagogy and anti-discrimination with reference to the above mentioned educational settings. In addition, strategies for youth participation, for professionalising teams in diversity competence in these educational settings and interdisciplinary approaches to tackling school absenteeism will be addresses, with a view to sustainably strengthening participation and social cohesion.
Key topics also include the role of funds of knowledge in supporting children’s participation in extended education, the development of inclusive structures in extended education, civic education, collaboration between extended education, schools and families, multilingual learning environments in extended education, partnerships with NGOs, and the ways in which social inequalities are produced or transformed in contexts of extended education.
Submissions must include an abstract of up to 400 word ins English.
The submission period runs from 7th September 2026 to 15th January 2027.
12:00 – 00:00
University College of Teacher Education Vienna, Austria
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