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• 28 sep 2018

  Porto

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Work and cooperation

  Laboreal Dossier

  If human beings are the result of a historical process and not the product of a pre-established plan, it is important to emphasize the significance of cooperative actions for their preservation throughout this process. A path in which work – as a constitutive element of our species – plays a decisive role in these actions. How has cooperation been taking place in formal and informal work activities? How have the current modes of management and their evaluation and training systems contributed to the construction or weakening of cooperative acts at work? What are the requirements to build cooperation?

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• 30 avr 2017

  Call for papers - America

  Births in Latin America

  Changes in practices and social norms

  Don de dieu accepté sans planification par une large majorité, la naissance d’un enfant est devenue un événement moins fréquent dans la vie des latino-américain-e-s. Cette transition démographique de la fécondité s’est accompagnée d’une médicalisation croissante de la vie reproductive : planification familiale et contraception, suivi des grossesses et des accouchements, aide à la conception. Les évolutions des comportements, des normes sociales et biomédicales qui les fondent, ainsi que celles des politiques sociales, familiales, démographiques, entraînent un renouvellement des problématiques sociétales et de recherche liées à la naissance d’un enfant et à la fécondité.

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• 10 nov 2016

  Madrid

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Think clean

  5th international congress “Sport, doping and society”

  The 5th international congress “Sport, doping and society” is organized by the Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport (AEPSAD) and the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Under the theme “Think Clean”, there will be presented the results of scientific researches and new methodologies in the field of doping in sport from the specific perspective of Human and Social Sciences. We believe that this initiative will contribute to identify the factors that influence the use of doping substances and methods. From this knowledge we hope to foster future prevention and doping control and to promote ethical behavior in sport.

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• 30 sep 2015

  Call for papers - Education

  Émancipation et formation de soi

  Revue « Recherches et éducations »

  The issue of the journal Recherches et éducations entitled "Empowerment and Self-Training". It solicits by the authors a conceptual clarification of the concept of educational empowerment, presentation of research results defining the emancipatory processes at work and/or presentation of educational and pedagogical guidance offering prospects in the institutional game. Its preferred field are those of adult education, popular education and coaching people.

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• 30 avr 2014

  Seville

  Call for papers - Modern

  Higher Education: the challenge of employability

  13th International Congress of Theory of Education: (XIII ICTE) (ICTE2014)

  The Department of Theory and History of Education and Social Pedagogy of the University of Seville (Spain) and the academic network Interuniversity Seminar of Theory of Education (SITE) are pleased to invite you to the 13th International Congress of theory of Education: "Higher Education: the challenge of employability" to be held at the University of Seville on the 26-28 November 2014. The 13th Congress, which is international and clearly interdisciplinary, is presented as a space for debate, reflection and the exchange of experience and good practice in the fields of Higher Education and Employability. The Congress will be attended by over one hundred specialists, academics, researchers and professionals for an in-depth analysis of the triad of education, training and professional skills together with the binome of higher education and work settings from the perspective of lifelong learning. We wish to welcome all our participants: studnets, postgraduates, researchers, academics, educators, teaching staff for university and non-university higher education and agents and institutions for teaching and training in employability and professional skills.

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