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Addressing the Divide in Education through Research, Practice, and Policy

ADA University in partnership with the Ministry of Science and Education of Azerbaijan is delighted to announce its 7th International Education Conference 2024.

The 7th ADA Education Conference is timed to the 10th anniversary of the State Strategy on Development of Education (2013) that emphasized an instrumental role of education in human capital development, social mobility, poverty reduction, economic development, and overall advancement and global competitiveness of nations. To make this promise effective, education systems while designing and implementing policies and practices must have an explicit and ongoing focus on equity and equality, inclusion and social justice. However, in spite the decades of ongoing education reforms in Azerbaijan, national and international assessment evidence has been increasingly demonstrating a growing divide among learners in terms of access to quality learning opportunities, well-being and learning achievement levels. The trend of growing divides probably represents a monumental challenge for a national education system.

Why and how educational policies, practices and resource distribution may perpetuate inequalities leading to and reinforcing social and economic stratification, rural and urban discrepancy, divide around gender and language of instruction, talent and health status, and asymmetry in providing growth and advancement opportunities to different groups of population? The complexities raised by these divides are and will remain central to the work of creating equitable education systems. We need to embrace our collective thinking to create equitable education system that honor every individual learner.

In this Call, we are interested in scholarly work that explores ambiguities, paradoxes, and tensions of educational equity and equality. Our Call’s focus is in scholarly work that may suggest creating policies and paradigms that address the divides, support equity and justice during formal schooling and other learning spaces across the lifespan and across domains, with attention to both individual and collective well-being.

This year the 7th ADA Education conference, being an academic forum that brings together scholars, policymakers, independent researchers, educational practitioners and students, highlights the need, in accordance with its title, to directly address one or more of these divides being faced and contribute to the debates in the educational community.

In line with this, ADA Education Conference is seeking for submissions related to the following conference topics:

• Teaching and Learning

• Leadership and Educational Institutions

• Assessment and Evaluation

• Life Long Education and Development

• Teaching Resources and Infrastructure

• Vocational Education

• Education Towards Inclusion for All learners

• Education Policy, Research and Finance

The Conference is intended to be broad, encompassing panel discussions, presentations of research findings and poster sessions that address divides in education and explore the policies and practices having a potential to promote equity and well-being of all learners. Authors presenting at the conference will be awarded with certificates and get opportunity to have their full papers published in the conference proceedings.

Important dates and deadlines

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: April 1, 2024

Successful applicants notified: April 30, 2024

Conference Registration Open: April 3, 2024

Deadline for the conference registration: June 24, 2024

Date of Pre-Conference Workshop: June 28, 2024

Date of Conference: July 1-2, 2024

Submission Criteria

Research abstracts are accepted in Azerbaijani, English and Russian. The length of abstract: maximum 500 words with three key words.

• Please, submit your abstract, using and downloading the abstract Submission form by April 1, 2024 to ADA School of Education at sel@ada.edu.az. For abstracts in English and Azerbaijani versions use hyperlinks below. * Should you submit an abstract in Russian language, use the English version abstracts submission form.
• Refer to ADA University abstract submission guidelines provided in the links below.
• Include “Abstract for ADA 2024 Education conference – Your Name” in the subject line of the e-mail.

FORM-EDU abstract 2024-ENGLISH VERSION

FORM-EDU abstract 2024 AZERBAIJANI VERSION

AZERBAIJANI language GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS 2024

ENGLISH language GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSAL- SUBMISSION 2024

Registration for the conference and fees

Submission of your abstract does NOT automatically register you for the conference itself. Everyone planning to attend the conference must complete the registration process. Online registration for the ADA 2024 7th International Education conference will be available on April 3, 2024 at ADA University Conference webpage http://edcon.ada.edu.az/

The registration fee is 65 AZN for Azerbaijani citizens / 90 AZN for non-citizens.

*Included in the registration fee: admission to preconference workshops and awarding with the pre-conference participation certificate; participation in the conference sessions, plenaries, daily refreshment breaks, conference booklet etc.

Payment can be made online at https://online.ada.edu.az/payment/, which will be activated on April 3, 2024 at ADA University Conference webpage.

Payment via bank transfer can be made to ADA University AZN bank account.

Bank account details information can be found in an attachment.

Communication

Questions can be directed to ADA University School of Education at sel@ada.edu.az or (012) 4373235 (417), +994 50 2573235