Call for Papers – Ars Educandi 2021

Call for papers: Nieobecne/Absent

In 1991, in the time of profound social and political changes, the first volume of “Absent Discourses” (“Nieobecne dyskursy”), edited by Zbigniew Kwieciński, was published. In merely six consecutive volumes, the editor and authors managed to open the horizons of Polish educational studies to new ideas and theories – to what then had been excluded or for various reasons absent. That series inspired a new generation of pedagogues and educational researchers who directed themselves towards critical, emancipatory, or alternative pedagogies.

In the forthcoming issue of Ars Educandi, we want to return to that radical idea. In the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Absent Discourses we are thus attempting at textualizing absence anew. We are inviting researchers to expose pitfalls in which contemporary pedagogy might have got trapped. We are inviting to pushing the borders of educational discourse. This time, we will not write on paradigmatic conceptions, and we do not have to stick to canonized languages if those are not capable of expressing that which has become taboo or that which cannot be said and heard. We are inviting to speak of what usually remains “unpublishable” or on what we do not write, fearing of being excluded.

We are inviting theoretical papers and empirical reports from the broadly understood domain of educational studies. With merits and ethical criteria in mind, in the forthcoming issue of Ars Educandi we shall write on what is absent in pedagogy today.

We are expecting to receive your papers by September 30^th 2021. We will appreciate your prior announcement on the intention to submit the paper, with a preliminary description of its problematic.

Contact email for prior announcements and other questions:

tomasz.szkudlarek@ug.edu.pl and piotr.stanczyk@ug.edu.pl

Volume 18 (2021) editors:

Piotr Stańczyk

Tomasz Szkudlarek