44th EUCEN Conference 'Border-Crossing as a Viable Choice: Collaboration, Dialogue and Access to Higher Education'

44th EUCEN Conference  'Border-Crossing as a Viable Choice:  Collaboration, Dialogue and Access to Higher Education'.  MALTA:  7 - 9 November 2012. Venue: University of Malta Valletta Campus. Old University Bldg. St Paul Street, Valletta, VLT 1216, MALTA.
Call for Proposals - 'Border-Crossing as a Viable Choice: Collaboration, Dialogue and Access to Higher Education'
The 44th EUCEN Conference builds on the established link between thriving democracies, healthy economies and equitable access to quality, lifelong-learning provisions in Higher Education. The conference will examine how the current, global financial situation, educational legislation, international aid and education reforms are impacting on equitable access to Higher Education. The conference will also foreground initiatives and projects undertaken by universities, in collaboration with other institutions of learning and the community, to bridge the participation gap in lifelong-learning and in life-wide initiatives. 
As the world comes increasingly to grips with growing material inequalites, and as advocates of social, economic and cultural inclusion continue to argue that uneven access to quality lifelong learning provision in Higher Education tends to reproduce uneven development, the conference will examine possibilities for horiziontal collaboration in higher education, based on a South-North, East-West dialogue that allows for permeability,  border-crossing, genuine exchange and mutual transformation. Participants will also examine how migration patterns are challenging thinking and lifelong-learning provision in Higher Education. As European universities continue to transform themselves into Lifelong Learning Universities, the conference will provide a showcase for current projects and a forum for prospective initiatives in this regard.      
In the year dedicated to active ageing, the conference will provide possibilities for reflection on issues of access and collaboration in the field of third-age provision and inter-generational dialogue in the context of Higher Education.  
Conference Themes
Participants are invited to deliver panel presentations or posters inspired by one or more of the following themes: 
Border-crossing
Presentations that address this theme are expected to highlight interdisciplinarity, collaboration across institutions of higher learning and projects within the community.
Access
Under this heading, participants are expected to reflect on and share concrete projects that promote democratic and equitable access to quality lifelong-learning provision and on roadblocks to access. Presenters are encouraged to highlight the link between compulsory education and further, continuing and higher education. 
Collaboration
This key area sets out to explore the meaning of collaboration in a context marked by vertical inequality. Participants are encouraged to share examples of genuine collaboration between institutions located in different geographies and differentiated by material wealth, human resources, prestige and research potential. 
Migration
Participants are expected to react to some of the pressing questions regarding migration and higher education: how are institutions of higher learning reacting to the inevitable movement of people who are making Europe their home? What are the challenges to genuine inclusion in this context? How is migration challenging traditional notions of access, pedagogy, evaluation and validation?
Draft Programme - Keynote Speechs
Competing temporalities and geographies of university lifelong learning: Higher Education landscapes, knowledge flows, and translations of citizenship, Professor André Elias Mazawi, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Competitiveness, diversification and the international Higher Education cash flow: The EU’s Higher Education discourse amidst the challenges of globalisation, Professor Peter Mayo, Faculty of Education, University of Malta.
The politics of Higher Education in a European learning society, Professor Kenneth Wain, Faculty of Education, University of Malta.
Universities, lifelong learning, and active ageing: past, present, future, Dr. Marvin Formosa, European Centre for Gerontology, University of Malta.
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