“Re-Building Nations, Re-Thinking Education”

The International Education program At New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development is pleased to host its Fifth Annual International Education conference at New York University’s Washington Square campus March 25 and 26, 2010.

This year’s conference, “Re-Building Nations, Re-Thinking Education,” will bring together academics and practitioners to discuss the building, re-building, and re-imagining of nations via educational institutions and practices.

In the 21st century, the notion of “nation-building” resonates in multiple contexts: from reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, to charter schools in New Orleans, to re-imagining of national identity in Germany. Why is education a crucial element of nation building? How do national education systems serve as mechanisms for the formation of group identities and the transmission of collective histories? What is the relevance of the nation-state in an increasingly cosmopolitan global society?

The 2010 conference will address these and other questions. In bringing together students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners, we aim to come to new understandings of the nature of our work in the field and in the classroom.

CONTACT US
International Education Conference Committee, 2010 Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development New York University NYUIE.2010@gmail.com http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/conference/ieconf2010