[ecrea] call for papers for merzWissenschaft 2014

Media-based Education

Perspectives on educational science and media education

Responsible editorial team:

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl (University of Hamburg) and merzWissenschaft 
(JFF) editorial department

merzWissenschaft 2014 investigates issues of educational science and 
media education. The main issues will investigate, on the one hand, the 
competences and skills acquired by adolescents in their daily media 
practice, and their relevance for growing-up and learning in educational 
institutions (school, non-formal education programs in out-of school 
contexts, activities or educational childcare-facilities), and on the 
other hand, those media skills and competences acquired within formal 
education processes, and their relevance for adolescents’ everyday lives 
in a mediatized society. On the subject level the focus will be on 
adolescents, with their media competences and skills related to the use 
of media, and on educational personnel, with their willingness to 
include media-related aspects in their pedagogical work. On the 
structural level the research investigates the framework and conditions 
of educational and media (sub-)systems, and their relevance for enabling 
or impeding educational processes.

This overall research topic can be divided into different areas:

    * There is need for clarification as to how the various educational 
institutions and contexts interact. For instance there is the question, 
how media education processes unfold in between formal and informal 
education, and what kind of interlacing can be determined between the 
various educational contexts. Another important issue is, which 
intersections of educational institutions (school, out-of school youth 
activities, and childcare facilities) have to be taken into consideration.
    * With regard to the subjects within formal education institutions, 
it is vital to research how to develop age and development sensitive 
criteria for processes of media education and competence development. 
This requires an investigation of media-related skills and competences 
of teaching staff in schools and in non-school institutions. The 
question is how their education and continued training has to be 
designed in order to reflect current requirements.
    * The development of the media, in particular mobile technologies 
as well as location-independent access to and processing of media 
content, change the utilization of media within the educational context 
(„bring your own device“). This raises the question, how educational 
processes with, in and via technology and media are influenced by 
changes in the media practices of adolescents as well as by the 
extension of individual and institutional media repertoires.
    * With regard to education media and media-based learning 
environments available, considering also structural provisions to 
further media competence in educational institutions, the question must 
be raised, how to critically evaluate their quality and availability in 
order to determine their position within the framework of media-related 
formation processes. Examples are a critical investigation of the 
relevance of commercial education media and the role that companies and 
businesses play in schools, or the assessment of the quality of 
so-called competence portfolios or media-competence passes. Moreover, 
newly developing media in open educational resources have to be 
critically analyzed based on benchmarks for high-quality education. 
These analyses should not only consider individual learning scenarios 
but also a wider framework of education processes.
    * With regard to the conditions of social injustice and the 
increasing relevance of education with, in and via media in an evermore 
mediatized world, it is necessary to research how to design education 
structures in a way that allows disadvantaged groups to fully utilize 
their resources and realize their potential in order to successfully 
develop individual learning biographies. It has to be discussed, which 
formal education contexts can help overcome the digital divide, and if 
and how to establish a basic educational media service for everyone.

merzWissenschaft provides a forum to back up and push forward the 
scientific discussion in media pedagogy. We therefore invite you to 
submit qualified research papers from the various relevant disciplines 
to contribute to the international debate.

The kind of papers sought:

    * are based on empirical or theoretical research,
    * offer new knowledge, aspects or approaches to the subject
    * explicitly refer to one of the areas or questions outlined above, 
or delineate a new issue within the overall context of this call for 
papers, and
    * have not been published elsewhere.

In the first instance, interested authors are asked to submit an 
abstract of no more than 6,000 characters (including spaces) to our 
editorial team ((merz /at/ jff.de)) by 17 February 2014. Please ensure that the 
papers follow the merzWissenschaft layout guidelines. These are 
available at www.merz-zeitschrift.de (-> über merz -> für autoren).

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Susanne 
Eggert by phone on +49.89.68989.120 or email: (Susanne.eggert /at/ jff.de)
Deadlines Overview:

17 February 2014: Submission of abstracts to (merz /at/ jff.de)

10 March 2014: Notifications of acceptance

10 June 2014: Submission of full papers

10 June - 25 July 2014: Peer review

August/September 2014: Revision Period (several phases if needed)

Final submission: 22 September 2014


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Dr. Susanne Eggert
merz - Zeitschrift für Medien und Erziehung
Pfälzer-Wald-Str. 64
81539 München

fon: 089/68989-120
fax: 089/68989-111

www.merz-zeitschrift.de


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