Die Societé Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) ist eine internationale Organisation, die Kooperationen zwischen Wissenschaftlern in den Fächern Europäische Ethnologie, Folkloristik, Kulturanthropologie und angrenzenden Feldern, wie etwa der Erziehungswissenschaft, anregt und fördert. Der 10. internationalen SIEF Kongress steht unter dem Thema “People Make Places - ways of feeling the world“.

Abstract zum Panel “School Space(s)“ (P109):

Europeans spend the major part of their early life in schools, working alongside adults trained to teach them. Schools are at once places of learning and living spaces for the adolescents and teachers. Educational ideals, the making of citizens, youth culture, school architecture and discipline: these are just a few of the changing discourses concerning schools within a society.

This panel invites contributions examining schools as sites shaped and reshaped by those coming to learn and teach within them. Classrooms, school yards, the teachers` room, corridors, the library and cafeteria provide physical structures within which school life unfolds. Beyond the power inherent to the concrete space, the panel inquires into how actors seek to make it their own place. What processes are at work (or are hindered?) within the constantly recomposing membership of a school with new cohorts entering whilst others graduate? How do actors` interaction, negotiation and imagination contribute to the shaping of school cultures? How do different sets of actors seek to emplace and make visible or graspable their position in school life? Are there narratives connected to specific sites within a school and how do they encode internal school imaginaries and power relations; how do they differ from outside reflections and reputations of a school? How do actors participate in and construct their school`s history, both orally and through material culture?

We are inviting presentations of ethnographically based case studies, as well as papers reflecting methodological approaches suitable for working with both school actors and their organisational settings.

Die Sammlung der Beitragsvorschläge für das Panel “School Space(s)“ (P109) erfolgt ausschließlich über den Link zur Panel-Homepage (s.o.)

Der Call for Papers ist bis zum 15. Oktober 2010 geöffnet.Anschließend wird das Panel aus ausgewählten Beiträgen zusammengesetzt. Auf der Kongress-Homepage sind weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung und zum Call for Papers zu finden.