V Congress of MESCE
Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education 

CORTE 4, 5, 6 et 7 July 2011

Territories and Cultural Democracy: 
towards a new educational contract

Call for papers

Deadline: 15 February 2011

key note speaker 
Samir Amin

1. Contextes and references

The globalization affects the identity issues particularly in those contexts like the Mediterranean where the individual's representations are strictly linked to dominant groups' dynamics on the linguistic, social, cultural, ethnic and religious plans. Even the historical formation of the states, along with the educational and cultural policies, enter the degree in which communities and individuals enjoy the sense of authonomy in their own territories: in many cases those processes end in the constitution of a national identity, normative in its history, up to the imposition of one only monoculturalism.

It often happens that nowadays the educational policies, led till now by the state-nations with uniformation and assimilation as their main aims, sharply contrast with the new trends as instaured by new super-national Institutions (UNESCO, Europe, and the likes) and bodies (families, communities, associations, syndicates, religions-based communities, etc.). Those new tensions shed a new light upon the "cultural democracy gap", a defaillance that cannot but result in a intensification of the conflicts related to the linguistic and cultural hegemony.

The theme of the capability to live together therefore becomes a crucial social matter that claims for a re-consideration of the organization of the city as the venu where each part should find its niche, with its legitimization and constitution. That's why a space for re-elaborating a new "educational contract" becomes so opportune and urgent, with the aim to find practical solutions for integrating interculturalism and plurilinguism.

2. Aims and themes

Taking in consideration the aforementioned perspective, the Vth MESCE Congress offers the opportunity for a fundamental reflection upon the role that the educational systems should play in order to appropriately treating the differences.

MESCE minds to open a debate for the researchers in Education, Sciences of Language, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociolinguistics, Politology and Law. Here below follows the list of the axes proposed for the debate: 

1	Axe 1 : Territories, minorities and cultural citizenship

1	Axe 2 : Territorial Recompositions and regulation of the educational policies

2	Axe 3 : Savoirs, means and curricula at the service of the diversity

3	Axe 4 : Normative policies and management of the linguistic diversity

4	Axe 5 : Agents and systems of formation

5	Axe 6 : Historical constitution of the assimilation politicies

6	Axe 7 : Social request and redefinition of the school values.

3. Venue

The Congress will be held in Corte, Université de Corse 
Pasquale Paoli Avenue Jean Nicoli,
BP 52, Corsica, France.

4. Résumés/Abstracts

The proposal of intervention should include a brief abstract (no more than one page, 2500 characters, spaces included) with the title and the appropriated axe. It should be written in format Word (.doc ou rtf.), to be sent in as attachment to the following email address: mesce2011@gmail.com. 
Dealine: 15 February 2011.

5. Registration and calender of fees

Normal	01 March 2011 – 31 May 2011	
Late fee or on the place	01 June 2011 – 07 July 2011	

Fees

		Normal	Late fee of on the place	
	Membre	200 €	250 €	
	Non-membre	235€	285€	
	Membre	100€	150€	
	Non-membre	135€	185€	
	Membre	50€	100€	
	Non-membre	85€	135€	
	Membre	30€	80€	
	Non-membre	65€	115€	
	Membre	-	50€	
	Non-membre	-	85€	
Accompany persone	1/3 of the fee of registrated participant. Such a fee comprends only the "cérémonie d’ouverture".	

The fee 

Registration fees include:

	- conference materials and bourse
	- programme and resumes book
	- breakfasts
	- coffee breaks
	- different visits
	- cérémonie d’ouverture
	- cérémonie de clôture.

*Low incomes countries
As organizers we tried to keep the list of such countries as longest as possible.
Afghanistan	Albania	Algeria	
Angola	Anguilla	Armenia	
Aruba	Azerbaijan	Bahamas	
Bangladesh	Belarus	Belize	
Benin	Bhutan	Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela	
Bolivia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	
Brazil	Bulgaria	Burkina Faso	
Burundi	Cambodia	Cameroon	
Cape Verde	Central African Republic	Chad	
Chile	Colombia	Comoros	
Congo	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Costa Rica	
Croatia	Cuba	Djibouti	
Dominica	Dominican Republic	Ecuador	
Egypt	El Salvador	Eritrea	
Ethiopia	Fiji	Gabon	
Gambia	Georgia	Ghana	
Grenada	Guatemala	Guinea-Bissau	
Haiti	Honduras	India	
Indonesia	Iraq	Islamic Republic of Iran	
Jamaica	Jordan	Kazakhstan	
Kenya	Kiribati	Kosovo	
Kyrgyzstan	Latvia	Lebanon	
Lesotho	Liberia	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	
Lithuania	Madagascar	Malawi	
Malaysia	Maldives	Mali	
Marshall Islands	Mauritania	Mauritius	
Mayotte	Mexico	Micronesia, Federated States of	
Mongolia	Montenegro	Morocco	
Mozambique	Myanmar	Namibia	
Nepal	Nicaragua	Niger	
Nigeria	Pakistan	Palestinian Territory, Occupied	
Panama	Papua New Guinea	Paraguay	
Peru	Philippines	Poland	
Republic of Moldova	Romania	Russian Federation	
Rwanda	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Lucia	
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Samoa	Sao Tome and Principe	
Senegal	Serbia	Seychelles	
Sierra Leone	Solomon Islands	Somalia	
South Africa	Sri Lanka	Sudan	
Suriname	Swaziland	Syrian Arab Republic	
Tajikistan	Tanzania, United Republic of	Thailand	
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	Timor-Leste	Togo	
Tonga	Trinidad and Tobago	Tunisia	
Turkey	Turkmenistan	Uganda	
Ukraine	Uruguay	Uzbekistan	
Vanuatu	Viet Nam	West Bank and Gaza	
Yemen	Zambia	Zimbabwe	

6. Calender

Date of publication of the call for papers : 15 October 2010

Deadline for presenting contributions : 15 February 2011

Date of notification of acceptation of abstract: 27 February 2011

Dates of the conference : 4-5-6-7 July 2011

7. Organising Committee

UMR CNRS 6240 LISA
ERTé CI2E (http://umrlisa.univ-corse.fr/ERTe/erte.htm)
MESCE (http://mesce2010.org/)

International Scientific Committee

 Jean-Marie COMITI, Professeur en Sciences de l’Education à l’Université de Corse, Directeur de l’ERTé  éducation, Directeur des Etudes à l’IUFM de Corse, Secrétaire général de la MESCE
 Alain DI MEGLIO, Professeur en Culture et langue régionales à l’Université de Corse, Directeur des Etudes à l’IUFM de Corse 
 Bruno GARNIER, Professeur en Sciences de l’Education à l’Université de Corse 
 Jacqueline GAUTHERIN, Professeur Emérite des Universités à l’Université de Lyon 2, Institut des Sciences et Pratiques d’Education et de formation, UMR Education et politiques (Lyon2-INRP)
 Eugène GHERARDI, Maître de conférences en Sciences de l’Education à l’Université de Corse
 Aïcha MAHERZI, Professeur Université d’Alger et l’Université Toulouse II, (depart Sciences de l’Education), Présidente de la MESCE
 Pascal OTTAVI, Maître de conférences en Sciences de l’éducation à l’Université de Corse 
 Giovanni PAMPANINI, dirigent sanitaire chargé de réhabilitation cognitive du service national de sante, chercheur en éducation comparée
 Marie-Michèle VENTURINI, Maître de Conférences en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication
 Dominique VERDONI, Professeur en Culture et langue régionales à l’Université de Corse, Directrice-adjointe du laboratoire UMR CNRS 6240 LISA, Directrice de l’IUFM, Vice-présidente de la MESCE
 Julien ANGELINI, doctorant ATER en Information et Communication à l’Université de Corse
 Romain COLONNA, doctorant ATER en Langue et Culture Régionales à l’Université de Corse
 Sébastien QUENOT, doctorant ATER en Langue et Culture Régionales à l’Université de Corse

Languages of the conference : French, Corse, Italian, English, Arab.

8. Contacts 
Véronique Lepidi, Johanna Casanova, Aurélien Leoni
Tél. : 0033 4 95 45 02 84 / 0033 4 95 45 02 78 / 0033 4 95 45 06 03
Mail : mesce2011@gmail.com

9. Responsible
- Professeur Jean-Marie COMITI : jean-marie.comiti@wanadoo.fr

10. Event-driven and Communication of the congress

- Dominique Grandjean : granjean@univ-corse.fr
- Andréa Massiani : massiani2@univ-corse.fr
- Sylvia Flore : flore@univ-corse.fr
- Gaëlle Piferini : gpiferini@univ-corse.fr