EARLI SIG 18 Conference 2022: Freiburg/Germany, 5–7 Sept 2022

Diversity and inclusion as challenges for educational effectiveness and improvement

In the past decades, the claim that educational opportunities have to meet the learners’ diversity has significantly increased (e.g., regarding students with special educational needs or students with immigrant background). Teachers and other professionals in education are nowadays increasingly evaluated by whether and to what extent they meet the learners’ diverse needs and enable them to fully participate in the educational system. Confronted with these requirements, educational professionals are more and more taking into account the results of international empirical educational research in order to obtain evidence-based information on how to design and organise appropriate educational measures. However, the increased demand of fulfilling all learners’ needs also puts into question the validity of the scientific evidence. Against this background, many of the “classical” research questions have to be reconsidered, for example: How can appropriate measures of success for teaching and learning processes be adequately modelled in heterogeneous and diverse social and educational contexts? How should different and even contradictory educational target criteria (e.g., achievement versus social outcomes of education) be dealt with in such contexts? Which characteristics of the learning environment and which teaching and learning methods are most effective for different groups of learners as well as learners facing multiple educational disadvantages?

The aim of our conference is to discuss current high-quality research results and to address a multitude of these questions regarding educational effectiveness and improvement from an international, interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

It is a great pleasure to inform you about the scientific programme and scheduling of the EARLI SIG 18 conference "Diversity and Inclusion as Challenges for Educational Effectiveness and Improvement" in Freiburg. It comprises 41 single papers, 7 posters, 6 symposia and 3 keynotes. The topics cover a wide scope within the field of educational effectiveness and improvement.

Below you find the finalised version of the programme. The first author of the first paper in each session is kindly asked to take on the role as chair.

As announced, we want to use the conference to get back into a live personal exchange and discourse and have planned accordingly. We will deliberately refrain from using virtual formats.

Some further details for your orientation: The conference starts on Monday, 5 Sept, 9.30 a.m., and ends on Wednesday, 7 Sept, 1.30 p.m. We provide lunch at all three conference days with no extra costs for the participants. On Sunday, 4 Sept, 7.00 p.m., we are planning a welcome evening in a nice beer garden. The conference dinner is scheduled for Tuesday, 6 Sept, 7.00 p.m., and it is also included in the conference fee.

You can register by using the following link or via your user dashboard. You will find the SIG 18 Conference listed in your user dashboard: Go to "Upcoming Conferences" and click on "Register".

The first author of each presentation needs to be registered for the conference until 1 August 2022.

* If you would like to make use of the discount offered to JURE members, please make sure that your JURE membership has been fully processed before entering the registration module. Your JURE membership has been fully processed when the payment has been completed and your student's status has been approved by the EARLI Office.

Conference participants are obliged to wear a face mask (FFP2 mask or medical mask) in the indoor rooms (seminar rooms, corridors, etc.) of our university, unless a minimum distance of 1.5 metres from other persons can be maintained.

For each participant, 5 masks (FFP2) will be provided at the conference information desk (Mensa Mezzanine Floor).

There is no obligation to wear a face mask...

• when giving a lecture: In this case, the speaker's position in the room must be organised in such a way that a minimum distance of 1.5 metres from other persons can be safely maintained throughout,
• when eating or drinking or
• in individual cases for unavoidable reasons in which it is unreasonable or impossible to wear a face mask.

The hygiene concept of our university can be found here (German version only).

Reports by the Robert Koch Institute on the current pandemic situation in Germany can be found here.

Please note that passengers on public transport are required by Federal law to wear a medical face mask.

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