THE ANDREAS M. KAZAMIAS PRIZE IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

Stipend: 1,000 Euros

The Centre of Comparative Education, International Education Policy and Communication of the University of Athens (ESPAIDEPE) and the Greek Comparative Education Society (ELESE) announces the annual award of the ANDREAS M. KAZAMIAS PRIZE in honor of the distinguished pioneer in the development of the Episteme of Comparative Education in the United States and Greece. The prize of 1,000 Euros (approximately USD 1200) will be awarded to the best comparative historical and critical study of a topic/problem/issue within the thematic adumbrated below:

From the Nation-State to the Post-national European Space: Challenges and Prospects for Education.

With the emergence of the European Union, a new supra-national multi-dimensional space is being constructed, an imagined multi-ethnic, multicultural, post-national New Europe. This “neo-modern” European space has problematized, among other things, the “national,” and essentially “nationalistic,” “ethnocentric’ and “monocultural” systems of education (their structures and orientations), their pedagogies and content (what has been called “modernist knowledge” and “Eurocentric” education). Given the politico-educational and knowledge traditions of Europe, what specifically are some of the educational problematics, and discourse dilemmas (policy talk and policy practice) of the post-national European space? How do the member-states of the European Union respond to the challenges posed by the so-called “Europe of the Euro, of knowledge, and of democratic citizens” in terms of reforms and policy changes in educational orientations, structures, institutions, pedagogies and knowledge? What knowledge is of most worth in the post-industrial globalized Europe of knowledge and of democratic citizens? Young researchers who wish to compete for this award are asked to submit a scholarly study on such questions as the above along the lines indicated below.

Study submission guidelines

The study must be based on original research and not published elsewhere. It should not exceed 25,000 words, and should be submitted in 3 printed copies by December 15^th 2006 to the following address:

University of Athens – ESPAIDEPE
20 Ippokratous Str.,
106 80 Athens
c/o Professor Dimitris Mattheou
tel. no. +30 2103688479

The typescript should be printed on the one side of the sheets (size: A4, spacing: 1.5 lines, with ample right and left-hand margins as well as ample spaces from the top and bottom of the page).

Tables, charts, graphs and figures should be presented on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript and not included as part of the text. Their exact position within the text should be indicated in the typescript.

Notes, if any, should be endnotes, not footnotes.

References, when cited in the text, should be indicated in parentheses by giving the author’s name, a comma, the year of publication and, if the page number is needed, a colon followed by the page number. Example: (King, 1984) or (King, 1984:12). The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

For books:

Hans, N. (1958), Comparative Education: A Study of Educational Factors and Traditions, London, Routledge and Keagan Paul.

For chapters within books:

Hayhoe, R. and Zhong, W. (1995), “Universities and Science in China: New Visibility in the World Community”, in Albert H. Yee (ed.) East Asian Higher Education, Oxford, Pergamon.

For articles:

Kazamias, A. M. (1970), “Woozles and Wizzles in the Methodology of Comparative Education”, Comparative Education Review, 14, No 3, Oct. 1970, pp. 255-261.

References to web-only journals should give authors, article title and journal name as above, followed by URL in full and the year of publication in parentheses. References to websites should give authors if known, title of cited page, URL in full, and year of posting in parentheses.

 To ensure the authors’ anonymity, their identification (name, affiliation, postal and e-mail address, phone number – office and residence – and a short CV) should be provided on a separate sheet.