On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in the

22nd CESE Conference
held in Granada (Spain)
from 3^rd to 6^th July 2006
at the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones
Congress Centre: http://www.pcgr.org/flash.htm

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• Changing knowledge and education:
  communities, information societies and mobilities
  The World in Europe Europe in the World
  http://www.cese2006.org/ingles/cese.htm
• Les transformations de la connaissance et de l'éducation:
  communautés, sociétés de l'information et mobilités
  Le Monde en Europe – L'Europe dans le Monde.
  http://www.cese2006.org/frances/folleto.htm
• Conocimiento y educación en cambio:
  comunidades, sociedades de la información y movilidades
  El mundo en Europa – Europa en el mundo
  http://www.cese2006.org/espanyol/cese.htm

http://www.cese2006.org

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WORKING GROUPS

1. Social risks and exclusions: values, families, youth, migrant communities, winners and losers, mobilities, social exclusions; old and new communities and social capital.

2. Informationen societies and economies: employment, job markets, gender, digital divide, competencies (concepts, and impact, and use); transition to work; labour market for scientists, surpluses and shortages of scientists; brain drain; education and training.

3.  Policy knowledge and international educational assessment: knowledge 1 knowledge 2; information societies and the cultures of competence and educational policy; PISA and TIMSS; the politics of international measurements and domestic anxieties; assumptions about the international transfer of educational practices.

4. Open worlds and open education: Whose worlds? Which structures? Open to what and to whom? What are the politics, principles and policies of "openess" in education (including new mobilities of students and teachers, the virtual and the real, "learning platforms" and concepts of community and identity)?

5. Old Empires and new empires: old mobilities (Empire and education), new mobilities (GATTS, WTO), diasporas and dislocations, new unifications (Bologna), diversities and communities. Old and new forms of governance in education (states, market forces, bureaucracies, professional organisations). Old and new epistemologies in education, and in school/university knowledge.

6. International and regional developments and local constraints: Eastern central Europe, regional development, regions, developing countries, local aspirations, unifications and dislocations.

7. Young Researchers Group

And two SYMPOSIA:

A. In French. "Les échanges entre l'Europe et l'Afrique francophones à l'heure de la société fondée sur la connaissance"
B. In Spanish, "Las cambiantes relaciones entre Europa e Iberoamérica en las sociedades de la información, el conocimiento y el aprendizaje”

CESE (Comparative Education Society in Europe)
http://www.cese-europe.org/