HEIRNET 9th International Conference

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

History Educators International Research Network  9^th International Conference

Saturday 14th^th to Tuesday 17^th July 2012

University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

Theme: Historical Education in the Information, Communication and Technology Era

Sub-themes and topics: History Education and...  

1. Citizenship: Community - Identity - Nationalism - Internationalism - Religion

2. Environmental Education: Archives - Libraries - The Environment - Globalism [Gaia] - Local History - Museums - Visits and the Community

3. Polities: Democratic - Communist - Fascist - Fundamentalist - Liberal - Totalitarian

4. Society: Ethnicity - Gender - Human Rights - Racial Identities - Social Justice

5. Internationalism: The Arab Spring - The Colonial Legacy - Genocide - The Holocaust

6. Curriculum Design: Integrated - Subject-based - Local/Regional/National/International

7. Pedagogy and Praxis: Auracy - Active Leaning - Assessment - Creativity - ‘Doing History' - Drama - Fiction - Iconic Representation - ICT - Literacy - Multi Media - Multi-Modality - Oracy - Pupil Voice - Syntactic & Substantive Concepts - Thinking Skills

8. Cognition: Pupil thinking and Cognitive Development

9. The Professional Development Agenda: Initial & Continuing - Parents/carers - Others

10. Researching History Education: Quantitative & Qualitative - Action - Case-Study

11. Theory: Bourdieu - Bruner - Collingwood - Freire - Marx - Rusen - Post-Modern - Whig

Papers welcome on sub-themes, individual or combined topics

Accommodation: Delegates will arrange their own accommodation: we will provide suggestions, including ‘special deals'

Full delegates 250 USD, 190 euros, £160 sterling [student & teacher observers: 100 USD, 75 euros, £65 sterling] includes conference fee, refreshments, lunches & the conference dinner. The fee does not include accommodation.

Booking form: attached below.  

Conference pattern: Papers: Posters: Round Tables: Seminars: Workshops: Field Trips

Important dates:

• 3^rd June 2012 Applications for the conference, with payment:
• 3^rd June 2012 Abstracts (for conference programme - up to 300 words)
• 17^th June 2012 Papers (if possible, please)

Contact and information details:

Cherry Dodwell, the conference coordinator at:

heirnet@exeter.ac.uk