South Africa Conference Explores Global Education

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 13, 2016) — The call for papers deadline approaches for the Interuniversity Centre for Education Law and Education Policy (CELP) conference, “Balancing Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education,” to be held July 27-29 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.

Conference co-chairs include Rika Joubert, director of CELP and professor emeritus at the University of Pretoria in South Africa; William Thro, general counsel at the University of Kentucky; and John Nash, associate professor in the UK College of Education Department of Educational Leadership Studies. The conference also incorporates the 2016 International Symposium on Educational Reform, for which Nash is the 2016 coordinating director.

According to CELP’s literature, “The effort to respect the role of parents as the primary advocates for the education of their children and thus to find the right balance between liberty and accountability in education – to ensure that society’s goals are met and vulnerable individuals and groups are protected … is the theme of this conference.”

Contributions addressing any of the following sub-themes are invited:

·       Freedom of and right to education as basic norms in democratic societies

·       Understanding and implementing education reform worldwide

·       The role of the state in promoting human rights in education

·       Right to education linked with freedom of education

·       Educational freedom in the context of religion

·       Educational freedom in the context of culture and language

·       Decentralization and accountability

·       Funding of education

·       Admission to education institutions

For more information visit http://www.celp.co.za/?event=conference-balancing-freedom-autonomy-and-accountability-in-education

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