Welcome to ECE2013 - an IAFOR event

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) in partnership with Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), University of Lincoln (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Auburn University (USA), and its global partners is proud to announce the Inaugural European Conference on Education, to be held from July 11-14 2013, in Brighton, UK.

ECE is an international, intercultural and interdisciplinary event, and will give delegates the chance to listen to the latest news and research from scholars around the world,
and great networking opportunities across
higher education. Academics working throughout the world are encouraged
to forge working relationships with each other, and facilitate partnerships across
borders as part of the wider IAFOR community.
Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience the UK, explore Brighton and London and the UK, join a global academic community...
Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience the UK, explore Brighton and London and the UK, join a global academic community...

***Call for Papers Now Open: Abstract Submissions Deadline Extended May 20 2013***
To submit a paper through the online system, please click on the submissions tab above
To submit a paper through the online system, please click on the submissions tab above

Conference Theme: Learning and Teaching Through Transformative Spaces
As previous IAFOR Conferences on Education have shown, education and lifelong learning can be seen as a solution to a host of local and global problems whilst
globalized education systems are becoming increasingly socially, ethnically and culturally diverse. Nevertheless, knowledge is often defined through
discourses embedded in Western paradigms, as globalised education systems become increasingly determined by dominant knowledge economies.
The Inaugural European Conference on Education extends these discussions to consider the pedagogic challenges of developing transformative spaces for learning and teaching. The conference organizers encourage submissions that consider learning and teaching through one of the following sub-themes, although submission of other topics for consideration is also welcome:
Professor Stuart D. B.
Picken
Chair, IAFOR International Advisory Board

ECE 2013 Keynote and Featured Speakers
Keynote Speaker: Mary Stuart is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lincoln. She is a Board member of Universities UK, a member of HEFCE’s Teaching Quality and Student Experience Strategic Committee and the Higher Education Public Information Steering Group as well as being Chair of the Universities Association of Lifelong Learning (UALL), Chair of Open Educational Resource (OER) Steering Group, Chair of Action on Access Advisory Committee and Deputy Chair of the University Alliance.
Featured Speakers:

Miriam David, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Education, University of London
Rosemary Deem, Vice-Principal (Education), Royal Holloway, University of London
Valerie Hey, Professor of Education, University of Sussex
Yvonne Hillier, Professor of Education, University of Brighton
Linda Morrice, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Sussex

The Inaugural European Conference on Education extends these discussions to consider the pedagogic challenges of developing transformative spaces for learning and teaching. The conference organizers encourage submissions that consider learning and teaching through one of the following sub-themes, although submission of other topics for consideration is also welcome:
- Challenges and transformations in learning and teaching
- Virtual spaces: digital technologies and communications
- Connections and disconnections in learning and teaching
- Learning and teaching in glocal spaces of transformation
- Space, Architecture and Learning
- Global education and education for sustainable development
- 'Englishes' and cultural communications
- (Inter)cultural communications & understanding: challenging and preserving cultural differences
- Leadership in learning and teaching
- Bi-cultural, bilingual and bi-national education
For more information about submitting a proposal, please click on the submissions tab above. We hope to see you for our first conference in Europe in 2013!

Professor Sue Jackson
Pro-Vice Master of Teaching and Learning, Birkbeck, University of London
European Conference on Education Conference Chair
- Virtual spaces: digital technologies and communications
- Connections and disconnections in learning and teaching
- Learning and teaching in glocal spaces of transformation
- Space, Architecture and Learning
- Global education and education for sustainable development
- 'Englishes' and cultural communications
- (Inter)cultural communications & understanding: challenging and preserving cultural differences
- Leadership in learning and teaching
- Bi-cultural, bilingual and bi-national education
For more information about submitting a proposal, please click on the submissions tab above. We hope to see you for our first conference in Europe in 2013!

Professor Sue Jackson
Pro-Vice Master of Teaching and Learning, Birkbeck, University of London
European Conference on Education Conference Chair
Professor Stuart D. B.
PickenChair, IAFOR International Advisory Board

ECE 2013 Keynote and Featured SpeakersKeynote Speaker: Mary Stuart is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lincoln. She is a Board member of Universities UK, a member of HEFCE’s Teaching Quality and Student Experience Strategic Committee and the Higher Education Public Information Steering Group as well as being Chair of the Universities Association of Lifelong Learning (UALL), Chair of Open Educational Resource (OER) Steering Group, Chair of Action on Access Advisory Committee and Deputy Chair of the University Alliance.
Featured Speakers:

Miriam David, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Education, University of London
Rosemary Deem, Vice-Principal (Education), Royal Holloway, University of London
Valerie Hey, Professor of Education, University of Sussex
Yvonne Hillier, Professor of Education, University of Brighton
Linda Morrice, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Sussex

ECE 2013 Conference Programme Advisers

Publishing Opportunities:
Authors of accepted abstracts will have
the opportunity of publishing
their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a
selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the
internationally reviewed IAFOR Journal of Education. For more
information about the journal, click here.
ECE is the partner conference of the Asian Conference on Education (ACE), Asia's leading education conference, and a great forum for exchanging the latest ideas and views. Since its inception in 2009, ACE has welcomed over one thousand academics and practitioners to its annual Osaka event. For more information about the Asian Conference on Education, please click here.

David Aspin, Professor Emeritus
of Education & Former Dean, Monash University, Australia
Judith Chapman, A.M., Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia & Visiting Fellow, St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, UK
Tien-Hui Chiang, Professor of Education, National Tainan University, Taiwan
Michiko Nakano, Professor of Education & Director of the Distance Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Mary Stuart, Vice-Chancellor, University of Lincoln,
UKJudith Chapman, A.M., Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia & Visiting Fellow, St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, UK
Tien-Hui Chiang, Professor of Education, National Tainan University, Taiwan
Michiko Nakano, Professor of Education & Director of the Distance Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Publishing Opportunities:
Authors of accepted abstracts will have
the opportunity of publishing
their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a
selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the
internationally reviewed IAFOR Journal of Education. For more
information about the journal, click here.ECE is the partner conference of the Asian Conference on Education (ACE), Asia's leading education conference, and a great forum for exchanging the latest ideas and views. Since its inception in 2009, ACE has welcomed over one thousand academics and practitioners to its annual Osaka event. For more information about the Asian Conference on Education, please click here.

For more information
about IAFOR please click on 2012/2013 events brochure below:
11-14 July Brighton, England










