Edited by Patrick Bettinger, Klaus Rummler and Karsten D. Wolf
Please submit your abstract until 15. May 2020 at https://www.medienpaed.com/about/submissions ein. Please also find the author guidelines there.
Call for Papers as PDF
Topic
Optimization – the impulse-giving keyword of the GERA / DGfE Congress 2020 – is one of the central signatures of the present. At the same time, optimization in various conceptual varieties has become a significant topos in educational science, which raises a wealth of theoretical and practical questions, especially from the perspective of media education. These questions concern, for example, the work on individual and cultural starting points of educational processes, the political and social goals of educational action and the means used to achieve them, the further development of the educational system, the use of existing resources or the examination of educational issues.
All these developments take place within the framework of the present day, which is characterised by ‘digitality’. Socio-digital constellations are in turn determined by specific normative settings, power constellations and ultimately changed framing conditions for pedagogical action. Optimization appears here as a principle deeply rooted in ‘digitality’, which challenges an educational science perspective, as the subject area and research practice, but also concepts of action are directly affected by transformation processes.
Media educational theories and practices of the present are associated with different Optimization discourses as well as socially and institutionally sanctioned optimization practices, which both scientifically and practically active educators should leave untouched. Optimization dispositives seep into educational science in equal measure and set processes of transformation of the pedagogical into motion. However, whether the optimistic idea of a basically unlimited capacity for improvement and development (of people, institutions, societies, etc.) based on individual, and collective practices will prevail must be questioned, especially through media education.
Optimization is by far not only a positively underpinned concept that is established in pedagogical thinking and acting, but often is itself the object of criticism. This points out that a one-sided focus on optimization would lose sight of the limits of what is improvable and pedagogically feasible, and even of the possibilities of failure and deterioration. Instead, a ‘logic of increase’ which, particularly from the point of view of educational science, are of particular importance for the norm(alization)s transported with it must be questioned.
These few indications show that optimization is an educational cross-sectional topic, which is integrated into many central problem areas in the various pedagogical institutions and sub-disciplines and in particular through the coupling to ‘digitality’ raises media-pedagogical questions.
Contributions
For this call we invite contributions which are based on both rejected and accepted submissions to the GERA / DGfE Congress 2020. It is possible to summarize panels, sessions or working groups in individual contributions.
We invite scientists, educational practitioners and media educators, to submit abstracts of up to 1200 characters in electronic form by 30 April 2020 at: https://www.medienpaed.com/about/submissions. The editors will inform about the provisional acceptance of the contribution by mid-May. The full texts are due by 31st July 2020 and will undergo a double-blind peer review. The contributions are to be written according to the author guidelines (http://www.medienpaed.com/about/submissions#authorGuidelines).
Submission
Via:
https://www.medienpaed.com/about/submissions
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2020
Publication:
Special issue of the journal MedienPädagogik
Note:
Please prepare full texts to timely submit upon notification.
Contributions submitted in English or German should be original and should not be under consideration elsewhere. The total character count should be less than 40.000 characters (including spaces, without abstract, and without references). A narrative abstract of 150–200 words briefly describes the main issues, significant results and conclusions. Contributions must be submitted with an English and German title and abstract.
Editors
- Patrick Bettinger (University of Cologne) patrick.bettinger@uni-koeln.de,
- Klaus Rummler (PH Zürich) klaus.rummler@phzh.ch,
- Karsten D. Wolf (University of Bremen) wolf@uni-bremen.de