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[ecrea] CFP: trust
Wed Dec 23 13:41:14 GMT 2009
DPR9: Trust
30 March ? 1 April, 2010
University of Greenwich
Call for Papers
First call for papers: 18 December 2009
We encourage presentations in a range of formats:
papers (single or joint author), posters,
symposia and workshops, together with work for
exhibition and presentations in the visual and
performing arts. Proposals should be in the form
of abstracts of between 150 ? 250 words, making
clear the intended format of the presentation.
Abstracts should be submitted as a Word
attachment via email to
<mailto:(jnsatterthwaite /at/ gmail.com)>(jnsatterthwaite /at/ gmail.com)
If you would like to discuss a presentation
please contact Jerome Satterthwaite either by email or on +44 (0)1752 823091.
The conference is divided into 6 streams:
Trust and Leadership in the Academy
Trust and Panic in Education
Research Ethics
Trust in the Community: Critical Race Theory
Faith, Belief and Truth
The individual in a mistrustful world
Trust and Leadership in the Academy
At every previous DPR conference there have been
presentations on the issue of trust and
leadership in the academy, looking at the
breakdown of trust over the last several decades
between academic managers and teaching staff and
researchers. The conference in 2010 will make
this a major theme, looking at a breakdown in
trust that has curdled the relationships between
professionals in the whole Education system ?
from pre-school on, including primary, secondary,
higher and further education. But mistrust is
even more widespread, souring relations between
institutions and their funding bodies, so that
there is a pervasive atmosphere of mistrust and
suspicion, along with cumbersome and often
ineffective mechanisms of surveillance
established for monitoring and control. Ipsos
MORI reported in September 2009 that only 13% of
the general UK population trust politicians to
tell the truth, the lowest score in the 26 year
history of the 'Trust in Professions' poll
conducted for the Royal College of Physicians.
According to the survey, doctors (92%) teachers
(88%, up from 87% in 2008) and professors (80% up
from 78%) are the professional groups most
trusted by ordinary people. Yet, despite
relatively high levels of public confidence in
these professional groups, professionals
themselves feel they are not trusted enough to
fulfil their roles effectively without ongoing
scrutiny from funding bodies and quality
agencies. Why has this come about? How can it be
changed? What is 'trust' and how does
'leadership' relate to this concept? Where,
ultimately, is the power in the world of
education, and can it be (should it be) resisted?
Trust and Panic in Education
Can teachers and other professionals be trusted
with children? What safeguards are needed to
protect children from abuse in nurseries, at
school, and when joining in social activities?
What is the proper, sensible, ethical way to
behave in an educational milieu where accusations
of improper behaviour can suddenly end a career?
How should such accusations be dealt with? What
rights should children, parents, teachers and
other child care professionals have, and how
should those rights be respected in practice?
Research Ethics
Research is never value-free. Issues of right and
wrong are always present in the subject-matter of
research and in the methodology adopted. Who
should decide on these matters? What is the
significance of trust in research, between
researchers and their ethics committees and
funding bodies, between researchers and their
participants ? the men, women and children whose
responses provide the data, and between
researchers and the readers of their research accounts?
Trust in the community ? Critical Race Theory
What is a 'community' and what happens when trust breaks down within a
community or between communities? And why does trust break down? What is the
significance of race for issues of trust in the community and between
competing communities? How does Critical Race Theory help us to understand
issues of trust in the community and to intervene effectively?
Faith, Belief and Truth
Faith and Belief involve trust ? we trust a
person, a tradition or an intuition to show us a
Truth which will give a foundation for our lives,
values and understanding. What do we do when the
sources in which we trust are discredited or
brought into collision: where should we turn, who
should we trust, and why? These questions have
troubled thoughtful people for many centuries;
they also have an immediate bearing on the issues
raised in multicultural societies today.
This stream will include presentations on the
relevance of trust in religion; but also on the
relevance of trust in philosophy, where questions
of epistemology are normally examined from the
perspective of post-structuralist, post-modernist
intellectual discomfort, where trust is always withheld.
The Individual in a mistrustful world
Issues of identity will be brought together in
this stream: if I can?t trust others, can I trust
myself? And what can that ?self? be, in a culture
where identities multiply and fragment, or where
? as in the proliferation of on-line social
networks ? I make myself up as I go along (and am
more or less explicitly expected to do so), until
the real self (whatever that could possibly mean)
is dissolved in a myriad self-images? These
questions are not new; but in the prevailing
culture of mistrust and suspicion they are acutely urgent.
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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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