WSG Convenor - Luciana Bellatalla - addressed her attention to six important words, which could be discussed using a comparative method:History of Science of education/Pedagogy/School/Education/Didactics bzw. Geschichte der Erziehung Wissenschaft/Pädagogik/Schule/Erziehung/Didaktik

Participants: Italian, French, English, Spanish, German, and Portuguese scholars are invited to participate in the Meeting. Italian, German, Portuguese cultures are represented in WSG up to now. It is recommended that each cultural area is represented by a spokesman/woman of his/her Group.

Call for papers: The scholars who intend to take part in WSG Meeting may contact Luciana Bellatalla (email: bll@unife.it) within July 1st, 2007. Papers length: no more than 800 words or 6000 characters for each analyzed word. Papers languages: papers should be in speaker`s mother language, so to meet the peculiarity of a comparative work and the scientific purpose of this WSG. Each paper should be summarized in English: this abstract (200 words or 1500 characters) is intended as the communication at the Meeting and the basis for a comparative discussion.

Meeting directions:Each paper must analyze only one of the above words, explaining - its etymology; its literary and everyday usage; the cultural history of its meaning; the status quaestionis in educational field; an essential and orienting bibliography

Publication: The Convenor will provide publication of all presented papers, which will appear, in their original version, in the last issue for the year 2007 of “Ricerche Pedagogiche”. Deadline for reception of papers: September 1st , 2007.

The papers should be addressed to Luciana Bellatalla – Dipartimento di Scienze Umane – Via Savonarola, 19 - 44100 Ferrara (Italy) in Word version email: bll@unife.it.