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Saturday, August 05, 2006

European Educational Research Journal
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/eerj/

The European Educational Research Journal has been created by the European Educational Research Association (EERA) to further the aims of the association and its members, educational researchers across Europe. EERA was founded to promote educational research in Europe, to foster cooperation between associations of educational research and to enable clear communications with and between policy makers and teachers. EERA intends its journal to build a transnational community of scholars in and through the idea of the 'European Educational Research Space'. The current state of educational research in Europe is mixed: some research traditions and methodologies are shared across Europe yet others are often mutually exclusive; policy-driven redefinition of the idea of research, from a place of moral inquiry into a process of technical action, is taking place; and there is a discernible move away from its location in university and public departments to a range of public and private service deliverers. The context in which European Union educational researchers are working today is one in which the mobilizing discourses of the 'European Educational Research Area' and the 'European Research Area', combined with other 'borderless' flows of internationalisation of programmes, public-private partnerships and university alliances, are re-shaping the milieu of research in education. A challenge for EERA is to understand this process and to render globalisation visible. At the same time, the difficulty of creating a vital European research area follows from the lack of shared information about public research and national and European research policies in education. Europe is a place; but it is a changing place and also an imagined place. The idea of the 'European Educational Research Space' can be used as a metaphor for a culturally specific intellectual and social practice among educational researchers which engages, in many diverse ways, with local and global similarity and difference. The European Educational Research Journal will be a forum for constructive dialogue that recognizes particularity and difference, that acknowledges and seeks to address the relative weakness of links between social science and education research in Europe, and that seeks to develop methodologies for studying the new 'space' of educational research in Europe. The Journal will publish aspects of educational research which illuminates particular cases and contexts within the problematic of the 'European Educational Research Space'. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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