<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Please circulate this Call far and wide! It is also available here:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.norrag.org/call-for-contributions-norrag-special-issue-10/" target="_blank">https://www.norrag.org/call-for-contributions-norrag-special-issue-10/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,84,84)">Call for
Contributions! NORRAG Special Issue </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">10</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,84,84)">:
“Education for Societal Transformation: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,84,84)">Alternatives for a
Just Future”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,84,84)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">NORRAG,
an associate program of the Graduate Institute of International and Development
Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, invites contributions to a NORRAG Special Issue
(NSI) on</span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(126,126,126)"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Education
for Societal Transformation: Alternatives for a Just Future</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:red"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We
invite submissions of short written articles (typically around 1200-1500 words)
that can speak to a wider global audience of policymakers, academics,
researchers, civil society organizations, and other actors working in
education. Articles should be submitted in and will be published in English. If
you wish to send one in a different language, please let us know.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We seek
a good balance of articles from diverse contributors in different regions. As a
first step, please indicate your interest by sending us a<b> short abstract </b>(up
to 250 words<b>) by <i>15 September 2023</i></b>. We will advise authors by <i>15
October 2023</i> whether or not to submit a full manuscript. The drafts of full
manuscripts are due by <i>15 January 2024</i>. Papers will then be peer
reviewed with feedback provided by <i>1 March 2024</i>. Revised manuscripts
should be submitted by <i>1 April 2024</i> to meet the publishing goal of this
Special Issue by <i>1 September 2024</i>. We also plan to organize sessions
highlighting Special Issue contributions at the Comparative and International
Education Society annual conference in <i>March 2025</i>.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Background: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This
Special Issue has been developed and will be edited by members of </span><a href="https://www.thealternativesproject.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Alternatives Project</span></a><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> (TAP).
TAP is a diverse, transnational collective of progressive academics, union
members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned
with building a global collective critical voice oriented towards education and
societal transformation. TAP envisions and works towards a radical rethinking
of education and society globally.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The
current social, economic, political, and educational arrangements reproduce
relations of power that perpetuate profound inequities and ultimately threaten
life on the planet. We need alternative pedagogies and just, regenerative
education systems that will support the social transformations required to
create a more equitable and sustainable world. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Co-existing
and interrelated global crises are pushing humanity and the living planet
towards social, political, economic, and ecological collapse. These crises –
currently seen in the pandemic, structural inequalities, police brutality and
racism, entrenched patriarchy, accelerating climate chaos, and the constant
threat of wars – are driven globally by capitalism and militarism. We must
seize this unique historical moment to reconceive and radically change <i>public</i>
education as an entry point for deeper societal transformations.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We can
learn from the struggles and lessons from organized students and teachers, the
trade union movement as a whole, democratic community-based organizations –
including associations of minorities, migrants and refugees – as well as
independent media, organizations, and professionals that are committed to
advancing justice in the flawed, real societies in which we live. The goals of
alternative education for societal transformation address one or more of the
following dimensions of justice: social, environmental, economic, and
political. (For further details on the context, see the </span><a href="https://www.thealternativesproject.org/statement" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">TAP “Statement”</span></a><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> which
will open the Special Issue.)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Call</span></b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We
invite authors to draw on the theoretical imaginaries and practical experiences
of researcher-educators and on diverse scholarly traditions that characterize
the societal crises that we face as well as the education alternatives that
could contribute to addressing these crises by transforming local, national,
and global structures. Specifically, we are interested in non-reformist reforms
(NRR) that pose a challenge to underlying structures. Without debating what
makes a “NRR,” we hope contributors will focus on alternatives that they
believe are NRRs.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Of
relevance are manuscripts about alternative curricula, pedagogies, and
community relations in education at the preschool, primary, secondary, and
tertiary levels as well as in nonformal programs organized for youth and
adults, including those connected to worker organizations and social
movements. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We hope
to include visions and practices for educational alternatives that promote
societal transformation in various contexts in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin
America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, North America, and the Pacific Rim.
We are particularly interested in manuscripts authored or coauthored by
individuals from the Global South.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This
NORRAG Special Issue will include two interrelated sections that will highlight
certain themes. <b>Authors should indicate where their contribution fits within
the following outline:</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Projected
Outline:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Societal Alternatives</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> for
Social, Climate, Economic, and Political Justice</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">a.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Theoretical models for transformed/just societies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">b.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Examples of efforts to build transformed/just societies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Education Alternatives</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> for
Societal Transformation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Alternative theoretical or practical examples in
PreK-Higher <i>formal </i>education (e.g., </span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">anti-racist education,
anti-patriarchal education, climate/environmental crisis education,
cosmopolitical learning, </span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">critical multicultural education, critical pedagogy, </span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">democratic
schools, holistic education, indigenous education, peace education, social
justice education, spiritual education)</span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 1in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Alternative theoretical or practical examples in <i>nonformal</i>
education</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Guest
Editors </span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(feel free to contact anyone listed to discuss a
contribution)<b>: </b></span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
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<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Frank Adamson</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, California
State University-Sacramento, </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:adamson@csus.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">adamson@csus.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">,</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Maria Ron
Balsera</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, Center for Economic and Social Rights, </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:MariaRonBalsera@hotmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">MariaRonBalsera@hotmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Rezan Benatar</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, Independent
Consultant, </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:ebenatar@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">rebenatar@yahoo.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Michael Gibbons</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, American
University, </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:gibbons@american.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">gibbons@american.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mark Ginsburg</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, University of
Maryland-College Park, </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:mginsbur@umd.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">mginsbur@umd.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Steven Klees</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, University of
Maryland-College Park, </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:sklees@umd.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">sklees@umd.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Giuseppe Lipari</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, Scuola Normale Superiore, </span><a href="mailto:giuseppe.lipari@sns.it" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">giuseppe.lipari@sns.it</span></a><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Carol Anne
Spreen</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, New York University, </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:spreen@nyu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">spreen@nyu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Deepa Srikantaiah</span></i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, University of Maryland-College
Park, </span><a href="mailto:dsrikant@umd.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">dsrikant@umd.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Submission
of Abstracts and Full Manuscripts</span></b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> to Mark Ginsburg (</span><a href="mailto:mginsbur@umd.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">mginsbur@umd.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">)</span><b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(126,126,126)">:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Deadline
for submission of abstracts: <b><i>15 September 2023</i></b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Deadline
for first draft of full articles:</span><b><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(126,126,126)"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">15
January 2024</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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