CFP: Dialogue in Democratic Education

All proposals should be submitted by 30.11.2025. Instructions  available by October 15 in https://ssl.eventilla.com/democraticdialogue

Decisions of acceptance will be communicated by the end of the year. Full paper submissions will be considered for publication in an edited volume after the conference.

As an example, the topics of presentations may focus on:

• The role of dialogue (and deliberation & debate) in theories of democracy and democratic education

• The place, role and nature of discussion in educational and pedagogical practices

• Dialogue as a philosophical principle in education and as a method of teaching

• Dialogical and deliberative teaching approaches and pedagogical practices (e.g. Dialogic Teaching, Philosophy for/with Children (P4/wC), Community of Philosophical Inquiry (CPI), Socratic dialogue, Freirian pedagogy, Thinking Together, Accountable Talk etc.) and their contribution to democratic education 

• The role of teacher in fostering dialogue, deliberation, and debate

• Aims of dialogue and discussion in education

• Social, emotional and epistemic dimensions of dialogical practices 

• Dialogue between theories of democratic education and other fields of research (e.g. empirical or historical approaches to education and politics)

• The philosophical and historical foundations of dialogue as an educational practice

• The impact of the present political culture on dialogical and discussion-based forms of education

• Dialogue as a method of inquiry and educational research

• The critique of dialogical, deliberative, and discursive approaches to democracy and education

• Methods of invoking dialogue in educational contexts (e.g. art, embodied practices, technologies as stimuli for dialogue)

The conference invites three types of submissions: 

1. Abstracts of approx. 300 words. Presentations based on these submissions should be between 15 and 20 minutes long, followed by 10-15 minutes of discussion (30 min slots).

2. Full papers submitted should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. This word count includes all footnotes/endnotes but does not include the reference list. Presentations based on these submissions should be approximately 30 minutes long, followed by 15 minutes of discussion (45 min slots). NOTE: submissions in this category will be considered for publication in an edited volume after the conference.

3. Symposia proposals that consist of three or four short papers focused on a single theme. Submissions should include: (i) An abstract of the symposium outlining the form and focus of the symposium and the key issues to be addressed (200 words maximum); (ii) Abstracts of individual papers included in the symposium (200 words maximum). Slots for symposia proposals are 90 min long, comprising 3 to 4 15-20 min presentations followed by 30 min shared discussion.