Pre-conference in Oslo 2023

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ism as post-approach – what difference does it make, and what do we do with what it does? 

Dear network 22 participant, 

We are thrilled to welcome you to the pre-conference for Network 22, Post-Approaches to Education, to be held on March 14th at OsloMet in Oslo, Norway. The pre-conference aims to strengthen research networks around post-approaches to education in Nordic countries and provide opportunities for academic discussions between PhD/ doctoral students and seniors. The pre-conference is free of charge; the attendee pays for coffee/tea, lunch and dinner. This year the topic will be Activism as a post-approach – what difference does it make, and what do we do with what it does? The pre-conference will begin with a workshop with Hillevi Lens Taguchi, Anna Palmer and Teresa Elkin Postila, followed by afternoon ‘post-poster’ presentations by participants. You can find the program and practical information below. 

Warmest welcome, Camilla Johansson Bäcklund, Teresa Katherine Aslanian, Nina Odegard and Charlotta Hilli 

Preliminary program March 14th, 2023 

Venue at OsloMet, address and room: (will be updated) 

10.00–12.00 Workshop with Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Anna Palmer & Teresa Elkin Postila 

12.00–13.00 Lunch break 

13.00–16.00 Post-poster session 

19.00 Dinner at IndiSpice 

Questions about the pre-conference can be addressed to Charlotta Hilli, chilli@abo.fi 

Please register for the pre-conference in this form (deadline February 24th 2023). 

Link to the registration form: https://survey.abo.fi/lomakkeet/14982/lomake.html 

At our last pre-conference in Reykjavik, Malou Juelskjær created engagement and discussion with her current project, which combines practical and academic work and feminist materialist activism. Malou shared her work with the organization Skovgro, 

in which she collaborates with drinking water utility companies about buying agricultural land to plant trees. The work combines ‘thinking with agential realism’ and ‘doing with agential realism’, spurring new questions concerning how we conceptualize activism within post-approaches. How can we do activism in post-approaches and what do we do with what it does? What else can activism mean from a post-approaches perspective? 

“putting the active back into activism” (Braidotti 2013) 

Activism is described as “efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good”. Within post-approaches, ‘ecofeminism’ was introduced by French feminist Francoise d’Eaubonne in 1974, aiming to bring attention to how women could participate in the ecological revolution. The notion of “ecofeminism” has enjoyed a recent resurgence of interest as gender and the environment re-emerge on the cultural agenda. 

Post-posters as activism 

Activism in post-approaches can mean different things – minor or major activities that make a difference in situations or settings. Activism can be constantly ongoing, situational, and relational. 

For the second session of the pre-conference, we want to investigate the following questions: 

How do we do activism in post-approaches and what do we do with what it does? 

How can we spread activism in different directions? 

Post-approaches ask how things are and how things can be, always seeking to nurture possibilities. Braidotti (2013) proposes not to let critical studies stop at pointing out problems but rather to move towards a “posthuman humanity” with creativity and “putting the active back into activism” (Braidotti, 2013). Posthuman theories have implied that all our doings have ethical implications and thus are always already ethical actions and political engagements (Alaimo 2014). To search for the activistic aspects in the small implicit acts as well as the bigger, louder and explicit ones. Posters can become active and creative practices to express and generate thoughts, relations, and movements in science and art. 

We kindly ask participants to prepare a poster or a post-poster that relates to one or both questions above. You may want to create a post-poster of your research or teaching, or other forms of activism you do. We will hang the post-posters around the venue to “spread” the activisms. During the session, we will visit each post-poster and senior researchers and participants will respond to it. You do not need to prepare a presentation besides the post-poster. We encourage you to include, for example, pictures, dance, links to videos, or other forms of expression or materials. The post-poster does not need to be text-based at all but can be. 

Workshop (information will be updated) 

Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Anna Palmer & Teresa Elkin Postila 

Suggested inspirations: 

• • Alaimo, S. (2014). Thinking as the stuff of the world. O-Zone / A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies. Doi: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816621958.003.0008 
• • Apoifis, Nicholas, Caring for authors and activists in the classroom: An activist-caring teaching approach. https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v10iSI.529 
• • Braidotti, R. (2013). The posthuman. Cambridge: Polity. 
• • Honan, Eileen & Bright, David. Writing a thesis differently: https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2016.1145280 
• • Osgood, Jayne et al. (Conferencing Otherwise: A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708620912801 
• • Malou Julskjærs project: http://www.skovgro.dk 
• • They Dadaist Raoul Hausmann Poster poetry https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265584 
• • Poster inspirations and history https://www.xerox.co.uk/en-gb/digital-printing/insights/custom-poster-prints 
• • Guerrilla Girls poster activism https://www.guerrillagirls.com/projects 
• • Mona Hatoum, Over my dead body https://www.artsy.net/artwork/mona-hatoum-over-my-dead-body-6 

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Report from NERA in Reykjavik, June 2022

In June 2022, we attended the NERA conference in Reykjavik. The network 22 organized four paper sessions and two symposia. We also had a network meeting, see minutes below.

NERA network Post-approaches to Education

Notes, annual network meeting 2022, University of Iceland 

Thursday, 2 June at 14.20 – 15.00

Agenda

1. Opening of the meeting

2.  Secretary for the meeting.

Camilla Eline Andersen

3. Acceptance of the agenda

The agenda was accepted

4. Network report 2021

Bosse Bergstedt and Simon Ceder informed briefly from the 2021 report.

5. Report pre-conference 2022

Theme for the pre-conference: “But how do you do?” – a focus on showing how to. It worked well to ask people to share abstracts beforehand. A diverse group attended the pre-conference. Camilla Johansson Bäcklund will share some notes from the pre-conference to the attendees.

6. Next conference and pre-conference 2023

The network can apply for up to 75 000 kroner for next year’s pre-conference.

Those attending the meeting was asked for ideas for next year’s pre-conference:

• Activism – what difference does it make, and what do we do with what it does?
• Ecofeminism
• Publishing, reporting and communicating
• Genealogy of the post-approaches
• Celebrate the history and trajectory – and what difference does it do?

Does anyone want to be part? Camilla Johansson Bäcklund and Teresa Aslanian said yes to be part of the committee for next year’s pre-conference. If anyone else wants to be part of it, send a message to Bosse or Simon.

The Facebook page is active – so it can be used for sharing and dialogue.

7. Election conveners

Anne Herbert is leaving as convener, and so is Bosse Bergstedt. Linnea Bodén and Tarja Karlsson Häikiö, the nomination committee for new network conveners, proposed Simon Ceder and Camilla Eline Andersen as conveners for the next two years. Elected by applause.

Invitation to NERA pre-conference in Reykjavik 2022

Dear all members of NERA Network 22 Post-approaches to Education

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 2022 pre-conference for NERA in in Reykjavik, Iceland. May 31. – June 1.

But how do you do? – Theoretical and analytical involvement in post-approaches to educational research 

We invite junior (PhD/doctoral students) and senior scholars interested in, curious or critical about, post-approaches to education to join the pre-conference. The purpose of the pre-conference is to strengthen research networks around post-approaches to education in Nordic countries and provide opportunities for academic discussions between PhD/doctoral students and seniors.  

This year’s pre-conference theme is theoretical and analytical involvement within post-approaches in educational research. Doing post-qualitative research means becoming theoretically and analytically involved, but how do we make sense of these messy processes? How do we do post-qualitative research? What may these processes look like and how may they unfold? How is it that we do analysis? For this year’s pre-conference theme, we seek to explore issues of theoretical and analytical involvement.  

During the pre-conference, we invite PhD students and senior researchers to share in how it is we become theoretically and analytically involved as post-qualitative educational researchers. We ask all who are interested to join the pre-conference to send an abstract (250 words) that includes practical examples of how you do theoretical and analytical involvement in your study and question(s) you would like to discuss during the pre-conference. During the roundtable discussions you briefly present your abstract (appr. 10 minutes). The suggested readings are included to support posthuman researchers to make sense of the post-qualitative approaches.

Registration:

Please register for the pre-conference and the dinner on the 31^st of May by sending an email to Charlotta Hilli, Charlotta.Hilli@abo.fi. Including your abstract and your dietary restrictions or preferences. 

Deadline: 16^th of May 

The pre-conference will include two presentations given by Riikka Hohti and Malou Juelskjær along with group discussions on the topic:

From atmospheres to insect-thinking: the pleasures and pressures of a response-able methodology  
Riikka Hohti, University of Oulu 

Thinking with soil, rocks, water – sketching entanglement pedagogy   

Malou Juelskjær, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

Preliminary program 31/5-1/6/2022 

May 31st	June 1st
13:00 Introduction to the pre-conference days  13:15 Presentation by Riikka Hohti  14:30 Coffee  15:00–16:30 Abstract roundtable discussions in smaller groups (4–5 people/group)  16:30–17:00 Joint discussions  17:00 End of day 1  19:00 Dinner	09:00 Presentation by Malou Juelskjær  10:00 Coffee, summary and planning pre-conference ahead   10:30 End of day 2.

Warmest welcome, 

Camilla Johansson Bäcklund, Charlotta Hilli, Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud, and Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas 

Pre-conference NERA 2020

Dear members of NERA Network 22 Post-approaches to Education   

It is our pleasure to invite you to our network’s fifth pre-conference. The 2022 pre-conference will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland. May 31. – June 1. (12 noon-12 noon) 

But how do you do? –

Theoretical and analytical involvement in post-approaches to educational research  

We invite junior (PhD/doctoral students) and senior scholars interested in, curious or critical about, post-approaches to education to join the pre-conference. The purpose of the preconference is to strengthen research networks around post-approaches to education in Nordic countries and provide opportunities for academic discussions between PhD/doctoral students and seniors.

This year’s pre-conference theme is theoretical and analytical involvement within postapproaches in educational research. Doing post-qualitative research means becoming theoretically and analytically involved, but how do we make sense of these messy processes? How do we do post-qualitative research? What may these processes look like and how may they unfold? How is it that we do analysis? For this year’s pre-conference theme, we seek to explore issues of theoretical and analytical involvement.   

During the pre-conference, we invite PhD students and senior researchers to share in how it is we become theoretically and analytically involved as post-qualitative educational researchers. The pre-conference will include two presentations given by senior or post-doc researchers, along with group discussions on the topic.

A more detailed program will be released a few months ahead of the conference. For now, please register for the pre-conference by sending an email to Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud, agnes.bjelkerud@inn.no.  

We want to remind you that the network has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731682697012937/ You are all welcome to post relevant content there. 

Warmest welcome,  

Camilla Johansson Bäcklund, Charlotta Hilli, Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud,

Pre-conference 2-3 November Odense

Invitation to NERA pre-conference
Network 22, Post-approaches to Education (November 2-3, 2021)
It is our pleasure to invite you to the pre-conference for NERA 2021 in Odense, Denmark. We invite junior (PhD/doctoral students) and senior scholars interested in, curious or critical about, the post-approaches to education to join the pre-conference. The purpose of the pre-conference is to strengthen the research network around post-approaches to education in the Nordic countries, and to allow for meetings and academic debate between PhD/doctoral students and seniors.
This year’s pre-conference theme is Quality Criteria for Posthuman Educational Research. Educational research is usually placed in the social sciences with qualitative methodological approaches. However, posthuman theory and its post-qualitative methodological approaches challenge the foundations of qualitative research. Nevertheless, questions remain as to what constitutes post-qualitative research of high quality? How do different actors in posthuman educational research value articles and research proposals? The aim of the pre-conference is to discuss and develop quality criteria for posthuman and post-qualitative research. Further, we want to discuss what quality criteria means from a posthuman perspective and how to make better posthuman educational research.
This year’s pre-conference is closely tied around the theme of quality criteria with the aim to co-create meaning through a series of workshops and discussions. The pre-conference is free of charge; coffee/dinner is paid for by the attendee.
The pre-conference can host a limited amount of participants. Please register to simon.ceder@konstfack.se as soon as possible, but no later than October 15th.
You will find a preliminary schedule and suggested reading on the next page. The final schedule will be sent to registered participants.

Hope to see many of you in Odense!
The warmest of welcome,
Simon Ceder Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas

Preliminary program
November 2nd, at University
November 3rd, in central Odense
13:00 Introduction and presentation
13:15 Workshop 1: Inventory
14:30 Coffee
15:00 Handling quality in research and publication – insights and challenges from journal editors. Presentation from the RERM editors Ann Merete Otterstad, Jayne Osgood, Lotta Johansson & Camilla Eline Andersen
16:00 Workshop 2: Investigation
17:00 End of day 1
19:00 Dinner in central Odense
09:00 Workshop 3: Intervention
10:30 Summary
11:00 End of day 2.
Suggested reading
If you want to come more prepared, here are a few relevant articles for this year’s theme.
Koro-Ljungberg, M. (2019). Thinking, willing and judging in (post)qualitative research: A series of resettings. In F. Huckaby (Ed.) Making research public in troubled times: Pedagogy, activism and critical obligations. Myers Education Press.
Thompson, T.L. & Adams, C. (2020). Accountabilities of posthuman research. Explorations in Media Ecology, 19(3), 337-349. https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00050_7

Network meeting, NERA, 2020-03-05

Nera network meeting 5. Marts 2020

Attendees:

Bosse Bergstedt (bosse.bergstedt@hiot.no), Anna R. Moxnes (anna.moxnes@usn.no), Teresa K. Aslanian (tea@usn.no), Anita Tvedt Crisotomo (atcr@hul.no), Sofie Sauzet (sosa@kp.dk), Agnes Westergaard Bjelkerud (agneswes@oslomet.no), Simo Ceder (simon.ceder@konstfack.se), Helene Falkenberg (hfa@kp.dk).

Notes from the meeting:

Bosse: The history of the network. It started in Jyvaskyla in 2007. Was named poststructuralist pedagogies. Followed the chance from language to matter and change name to Posthuman Pedagogies. Preconference since 2016. The network har a Facebook group: Post-Approaches to Education.

This year there has been no founding. There have been 12 paper presentations.

The preconference went well: The combination of prepared lecturer and paper presentation is good. Time for discussion workshops is important. The pre-conference is a good opportunity to make network and makes NERA more relevant to attend.

Next year NERA is in Odense, Denmark: We will continue to have a pre-conference. Planning group is Simon Ceder, Sofie Sauzet, Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud and Rachel Sinquefield Kangas.

New convener: Bosse Bergstedt and Anna Herbert are convener. Bosse stops next year. Simon Ceder joins in as a convener this year and Sofie Sauzet joins in next year (2021).

Last year a special issue in RERM (Reconceptualising Educational Research Methodology) was initiated. The editorial group is Linnea Boden, Sofie Sauzet and Simon Ceder. Theme of the special issue is Posthuman conceptions of change in empirical educational research. The editorial group received 30 abstracts. Now some of these abstracts  are in process from abstract to full paper. The issued is expected published in February 2021.

Suggestions for theme for next year: When working with the special issue the editorial group came to discuss a lot about how to address the contributions. What quality criteria do we use for posthuman educational research? Educational research is usually placed in the social sciences with qualitative methodological approaches. Connected to posthuman theory is post-qualitative methodological approaches that challenge the qualitative, arguing they are using similar quality criteria as positivist research. Therefore, one idea for a theme to the pre-conference could be to discuss (and develop) such quality criteria. Or to discuss, what does quality criteria mean from a posthuman perspective.

Invitation to the pre-conference for NERA 2020 in Turku

Dear all members of NERA Network 22 Post-approaches to Education

It is our pleasure to invite you to the pre-conference for NERA 2020 in Turku, Finland.

The pre-conference is a direct continuation of the pre-conference at NERA 2019 in Uppsala, Sweden, where work on a special issue focusing on Posthuman1 Conceptions of Change in Empirical Educational Research was decided upon.

At the pre-conference, we will be discussing and developing papers that relate to, but do not necessarily have to respond to, the call for papers for this special issue. You will find the call for papers at the end of the invitation. There will also be inspirational lectures from senior colleagues that are grappling with these issues already. We invite junior (PhD/doctoral students) and senior scholars interested in, curious or critical about the posthuman approaches to education to join the pre-conference.

The purpose of the pre-conference at NERA 2020 is to strengthen the research network around post-approaches to education in the Nordic countries, and to allow for meetings and academic debate between PhD/doctoral students and seniors.

Preliminary program for the pre-conference

March 3
13.00 Intro
13.30 Lecture: Camilla Eline Andersen, Pd.D., Stockholm University: “Grappling with the world: responsibility, subjectivity and transformation”
14.30 Paper 1 (with response and discussion)
15.15 Pause
15:30 Dialogical lecture: Pauliina Rautio, Ph.D. University of Oulu & University of Helsinki & Riikka Hohti, Ph.D., University of Helsinki: “(Post)Human Nature? And other questions multispecies inquiry asks from us”.
16:30 Paper 2 (with response and discussion)
17.15 Paper 3 (with response and discussion)
18.00 End day 1 and dinner
March 4
9.30 Paper 4 (with response and discussion)
10.15-11.00 Conclusion
1 Posthuman involves all the ‘posts’: new-materialisms, feminist materialisms, ANT and post-ANT, speculative realism, science and technology studies, and, and, and…

Participating with paper

Participants that wish to have their idea for an article/book chapter/analysis discussed, have to send in a paper (the form and size of which is for the author to decide) no later than February 15, 2020 via mail to Sofie Sauzet: sosa@kp.dk. From the list of papers, we receive, we will organize the final program. Paper sessions are organized as followed: 15 minutes presentations, 15 minutes prepared response, and 15 minutes discussion amongst the participants.

If papers are responding to the call for the special issue of Researching Educational Research Methodology, they must also be e-mailed to: simon.ceder@konstfack.se

Participating without paper

Deadline for registration is February 15, to Sofie Sauzet: sosa@kp.dk

The warmest of welcome,
Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen, Simon Ceder, Virpi Valtonen and Sofie Sauzet

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Special Issue of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology

(RERM)Posthuman Conceptions of Change in Empirical Educational Research

Special issue editors: Sofie Sauzet, Simon Ceder & Linnea Bodén

Change is at the heart of the educational project. Mostly, the subject of change is described as the individual learning subject – the student – changing from ignorant to knowing, from not able to able. Critical pedagogies emphasize change as the student becoming empowered. However, education is also thought of, and used as, a means changing at-risk groups, or societies at large. Posthuman (or new materialist, feminist materialism, post-ANT and so on) theory implies being part of the world, embedded, entangled and always becoming, with the ever-unfolding movements of the world.

Thus, change is not the change of the individual subject, particular groups or systems, from one state to another. Rather it is about “giving to the world the power to change us, to ‘force’ our thinking.” (Stengers 2008, p. 57). Posthuman approaches questions ideas of change from a relational ontology and an ontology of movement. It is not only humans who change; rather, the world is in constant change – an intra-acting absolute movement – and the focus is the ongoing becomings that constantly transforms the world (Deleuze & Guattari, 2013). From this ontology, change is ongoing in all aspects of life and learning. Distinguishing the transformative capacities for change, transformation, or differences can thus be difficult. How can posthuman approaches to change be studied and materialized in empirical educational research? What is being changed, who is being changed, how does change happen, and for what purpose? How can posthuman research engage in, argue for, and manifest changes to educational practices?

With this special issue, we wish to address posthuman conceptions of change in empirical educational research working with posthuman theories and methodologies. We look for contributions that address and explores education as a question of change, transformation, quantum leaps, worldings, transitions, cuts, development, shifts, revolution, evolution, transposition, innovation or learning. We look for contributions with an empirical ambition within educational or pedagogical studies from a posthuman/new materialist perspective. The special issue will be a multidisciplinary collection of articles addressing change in education through posthuman approaches with a focus on empirical research. We invite article contributions to this special issue through a range of possibilities. Here we name but a few:
• Posthuman view on transformation in empirical research
• Change through educational experiments
• Learning as change
• Worldling as change
• Aesthetic learning processes
• Change through affirmative critique
• Affective engagements in education
• The role of change in action research and practice based research
• New approaches to emancipation and critical pedagogy
• Transformational informal learning processes
• Change in organisations
• Leadership and management as change
• Change in eastern western indigenous education
• Climate change and education
• Measuring change
• How the empirical changes the researcher
• Which change is “better” and an improvement, and for who/what

Timeframe:
• 1st of December: Deadline for 150-word abstracts
• 15th of December: Response on abstracts
• 15th of February, 2020: Deadline for papers. (Papers are max 5 pages, and somewhere between the abstract and a finished article)
• 3rd or 15th of March, 2020: Response on papers from SI editors (either at NERA Network 22 pre-conference or as written response)
• 15th of June, 2020: Deadline for full articles
• 1st September, 2020: Response on full articles
• 1st of November, 2020: Deadline final article.
• 15th of February 2021: Publication date

Please send the abstract to simon.ceder@konstfack.se
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact sosa@kp.dk, simon.ceder@konstfack.se or
linnea.boden@buv.su.se

References
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (2013). A thousand plateaus. Bloomsbury
Stengers, I. (2008). Experimenting with refrains: Subjectivity and the challenge of escaping modern dualism. Subjectivity, 22(1), 38-59.

Special Issue and registration

Dear members of network Post-approaches to Education!

At our network meeting in Uppsala we decided to make a special issue within a journal. An editorial board was added at the meeting with Sofie Sauzet, Simon Ceder and Linné Boden.  An interesting och creative invitation is now ready and attached.

Special Issue of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM) Posthuman Conceptions of Change in Empirical Educational Research

1^st of December: Deadline for 150-word abstracts

Please send the abstract to simon.ceder@konstfack.se

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact sosa@kp.dk, simon.ceder@konstfack.se or linnea.boden@buv.su.se

NERA 2020 in Turku

We also want to inform that the registration for the NERA 2020 conference in Turku, Finland opens at September the 15th. https://nera2020.fi/

Abstract submission ends: 15 November 2019

See you in Turku!

Best regards, Bosse Bergstedt

Special Issue of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM) Posthuman Conceptions of Change in Empirical Educational Research

Special issue editors: Sofie Sauzet, Simon Ceder & Linnea Bodén

Change is at the heart of the educational project. Mostly, the subject of change is described as the individual learning subject – the student – changing from ignorant to knowing, from not able to able. Critical pedagogies emphasize change as the student becoming empowered. However, education is also thought of, and used as, a means changing at-risk groups, or societies at large. Posthuman (or new materialist, feminist materialism, post-ANT and so on) theory implies being part of the world, embedded, entangled and always becoming, with the ever-unfolding movements of the world. Thus, change is not the change of the individual subject, particular groups or systems, from one state to another. Rather it is about “giving to the world the power to change us, to ‘force’ our thinking.” (Stengers 2008, p. 57). Posthuman approaches questions ideas of change from a relational ontology and an ontology of movement. It is not only humans who change; rather, the world is in constant change – an intra-acting absolute movement – and the focus is the ongoing becomings that constantly transforms the world (Deleuze & Guattari, 2013). From this ontology, change is ongoing in all aspects of life and learning. Distinguishing the transformative capacities for change, transformation, or differences can thus be difficult.

How can posthuman approaches to change be studied and materialized in empirical educational research? What is being changed, who is being changed, how does change happen, and for what purpose? How can posthuman research engage in, argue for, and manifest changes to educational practices?

With this special issue, we wish to address posthuman conceptions of change in empirical educational research working with posthuman theories and methodologies. We look for contributions that address and explores education as a question of change, transformation, quantum leaps, worldings, transitions, cuts, development, shifts, revolution, evolution,transposition, innovation or learning. We look for contributions with an empirical ambition within educational or pedagogical studies from a posthuman/new materialist perspective.

The special issue will be a multidisciplinary collection of articles addressing change in educationthrough posthuman approaches with a focus on empirical research. We invite article contributions to this special issue through a range of possibilities. Here we name but a few:
• Posthuman view on transformation in empirical research
• Change through educational experiments
• Learning as change
• Worldling as change
• Aesthetic learning processes
• Change through affirmative critique
• Affective engagements in education
• The role of change in action research and practice based research
• New approaches to emancipation and critical pedagogy
• Transformational informal learning processes
• Change in organisations
• Leadership and management as change
• Change in eastern western indigenous education
• Climate change and education
• Measuring change
• How the empirical changes the researcher
• Which change is “better” and an improvement, and for who/what

Timeframe:
• 1st of December: Deadline for 150-word abstracts
• 15th of December: Response on abstracts
• 15th of February, 2020: Deadline for papers. (Papers are max 5 pages, and somewhere between the abstract and a finished article)
• 3rd or 15th of March, 2020: Response on papers from SI editors (either at NERA
Network 22 pre-conference or as written response)
• 15th of June, 2020: Deadline for full articles
• 1st September, 2020: Response on full articles
• 1st of November, 2020: Deadline final article.
• 15th of February 2021: Publication date

Please send the abstract to simon.ceder@konstfack.se
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact sosa@kp.dk, simon.ceder@konstfack.se or linnea.boden@buv.su.se

References
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (2013). A thousand plateaus. Bloomsbury
Stengers, I. (2008). Experimenting with refrains: Subjectivity and the challenge of escaping modern dualism. Subjectivity, 22(1), 38-59.

Pre-conference 2019: Tuesday March 5th – Wednesday March 6th, Uppsala

Dear all members of NERA network 22

We are pleased to inform you that we are in the conciliation stage of organizing the pre-conference in connection with the NERA conference in Uppsala 2019.

The pre-conference is a direct continuation of last year’s pre-conference, and this year’s focus is on methodological issues related to the overall theme:

Posthumanist transformatory methodologies in education

In itself a post-human approach implies being part of the world, embedded, entangled and always becoming. It is not research on or for the world but with worlds. As such, distinguishing the transformative capacities for change, transformation or movement, or the differences that posthuman approaches to education does, can be difficult. In this pre-conference, we wish to address the “troubles of transformation” in post-human methodologie. We want to go into dialogue around, and gather different ways of, worldling. A range of possibilities are: affirmative forms of critique, the development of new concepts, new explorative approaches, affective engagements, experiments and laboratories, diffraction apparatuses, and new thinking technologies.

The preliminary program for the pre-conference is outlined here:

Tuesday March 5^th 2019

12.00 – 12.15 Introduction

12.15 – 13:15 Lecture: Michalinos Zembylas, Open University of Cyprus

13.15 – 13.30 Bio break

13.30 – 14.30 Workshop 1: Karin Gunnarsson & Simon Ceder

14.30 – 15.00 Coffee

15.00 – 16.30 Lectures: Anne Beate Reinertsen

16.30 – 16.45 Bio break

16.45 – 17.45 Workshop 2: Sofie Sauzet

17.45 – 18.15 Wrap up – Bosse Bergstedt & Merete Moe

19.30               Dinner

Wednesday March 6^th 2019

09.00 – 9.15: Start up from wrap up – Bosse Bergstedt & Merete Moe

9.15 – 10:45: Discussions: project-description/methodological sketch

Please allow for changes as agreements with lectures are still pending.

We encourage both PhD students and other interested juniors to attend the conference.

We recommend accommodation at Akademihotellet in Uppsala.

Participants should send in a one page project-description/methodological sketch of a chosen/current project you are working on (max 500 words) no later than January 20^th 2019 via mail to bosse.bergstedt@ontolab.cc

Warm welcome/ Karin Gunnarsson, Merete Moe, Sofie Sauzet, and Bosse Bergstedt

Notes from network meeting 2018-03-08

Network 22: Post-approaches to Education

Network meeting, NERA, 2018-03-08

Attendees

 Sofie Sauset, Karin Gunnarsson, Karin Elise Fajersson, Agnes W Bjelkerud, Cecilie Otterland Myhre, Anna Herbert, Ann Merete Otterstad, Camilla Nærgaard, Merete Moe, Helene Falkenberg and Bosse Bergstedt

Notes from network meeting

The new name Post Approaches to Education has worked well and there have been several new members.

Network 22 continues to be one of the bigger networks in NERA. This year included 1 pre-conference, 2 symposiums and 14 paper session (18 preregistered papers).

The network could do better by via email sending out information about future disputations and career opportunities. The website needs updating. Last year Linnea Bodén started a group on Facebook named “Post-Approaches to Education”, it is an excellent place for communication between conferences.

Bosse Bergstedt and Anna Herbert were chosen as conveners for another year.

This year´s Pre-conference

This year´s pre-conference was a direct continuation of last year’s conference, and the overall theme where: Diffraction and intra-action in the empirical research process 

The focus was on methodological issues. How can researchers utilize themselves as tools in connection with the empirical material? How do we relate to the boundaries that traditionally exist between subjects and objects? How are they transcribed and transformed in the research process? How are different post approaches in pedagogy related to this problem?

 The pre-conference were a mixture between short lectures and workshops with senior lecturer and doctoral students in the network 22. The purpose of the pre-conference was to strengthen the posthuman research network in Scandinavia and to enable doctoral students to discuss their dissertational work with other doctoral students and senior lecturers.

Drawing on a posthuman and poststructuralist thinking the lecturers as well as the workshops deled with different questions in relation to methodological issues, analytic strategies, issues about data production, etc.

The lectures were followed up by discussions and feedback in parallel workshops with 4-5 doctoral students and one senior lecturer in each group. Based on their research work each doctoral student presents a question, a wonder, a challenge, etc. which are addressing the poststructuralist/post-human traditions.

There were 27 participants in the pre-conference and the evaluation of the conference was very positive.

The committee that arranged the conference have participated Merete Moe, Helene Falkenberg, Camilla Nørgaard and Bosse Bergstedt,

Funding for the pre-conference from NERA was 14.000 NOK.

Program and attendance list attached.

Next year’s Pre-conference

 Next year NERA conference will take part in Uppsala. March 2018. There was a great deal of agreement to arrange a pre-conference also next year.

A proposal for title: “Remaking of the world”. With a focus on: how can a post human action research look like?

The following committee was elected to host next year’s pre-conference: Merete Moe, Sofie Sauzet, Karin Gunnarsson and Bosse Bergstedt

The committee is responsible for making an application to NERA.

Economical funds will be searched from NERA before 1th of August.

A task for the committee is also to explore the possibilities of arranging any kind of meeting place, alternative conference in autumn / winter.