8th International Conference

European Research Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE)


Home, School and Community:
a partnership for a happy life?


 University of Milano - Bicocca


Milano, Italy


29th June - 1st July, 2011

After Copenhagen 1996, Amsterdam 1999, Rotterdam 2001, Gdansk 2003, Oviedo 2005, Nicosia 2007 and Malmoe 2009, the Biannual International Conference of the European Research Network about Parents in Education (ERNAPE) will be held in Milan (Italy).

The eight edition of the ERNAPE’s Conference will give the opportunity to scholars from all over the world to debating and exchange experiences about “Home, School and Community: a partnership for a happy life?”

This international conference, born around various European countries and organized by ERNAPE network, is open to contributions from around the world and aims to compare methods, techniques and experiences of researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field of parents in education.

The conference organizers would welcome researchers in the field of Education, Family Education and Family-School-Community Partnerships, teachers, practitioners, educationalists, service providers, representatives of Family and Parents' Associations and representatives from other agencies who would like to present, and/or learn about research results on school-family-community linked to this theme.
You are invited to contribute to this international discussion and offer your views on an intricate, fascinating and fast expanding topic.

The conference will be held at the University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy. 

CONFERENCE PRESIDENT:

Stefano Castelli

SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE:

Gill Crozier, Miriam David, Rollande Deslandes, Raquel-Amaya Martinez-Gonzales, Birte Ravn, Helen Phtiaka, Maria Mendel, Loizos Symeou, Kees van der Wolf

LOCAL COMMITEE:
Loredana Addimando, Alessandro Pepe, Michelle Pieri

AREAS OF INTEREST
Themes of the Conference.
With reference to the field of Home - School - Community  (HSC) partnership, the following themes have been selected:

- Cultural differences: what is the meaning of HSC partnership in different cultures?
- Training teachers for HSC partnership.
- Information and Communication Technology in HSC.
- Children as the focus of HSC partnership.
- Learning, education and achievement.
- Methodological issues in research.
- Best practices.
IMPORTANT DATES:

Title and abstract (max 2.500 characters): 15th October 2010 15th November 2010

Notification to Authors: 1st November 2010 1st December 2010

Submission Deadline for Full Texts (max 30.000 characters):  30th November 2010 (first version of full text)                                                    20th December 2010

Notification to Authors of Full Texts: 20th December 2010 30th January 2010

Final Camera-Ready Paper Delivery: 30th January 2011 1st March 2010

Deadline for reduced fee registration: 31th March 2011

Preliminary programme publication: 15th April 2011

 Conference: 29th June-1st July 2011