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From a pragmatic point of view, it is the people who make an organisation, but organisations are
both people and structures, and not least organisations develop culture. One of the significant
features of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) as an organisation is that many
of its activities are run by people on a voluntary basis. Apart from a small office, now in Berlin,
which oversees and handles the everyday management, participation on Council, reviewing and
programming for ECER (European Conference on Educational Research), managing networks, etc.
are all undertaken as voluntary work by academics from across Europe (and beyond). From the
large group of people who are currently sustaining these activities, many have participated from
the beginning, but many others, after having been once at the conference, returned and got
engaged in the work, for instance within one of the networks. Among the many who participate in
EERA activities, there is a diversity of reasons for doing so, but there seems to be something which
is recurring in what people say about why they do it. One of these recurring ideas is that the
discursive norms of the organisation are enforced in the context of welcoming people and ideas,
and second, there exists an intellectual generosity and egalitarianism which encourages newcomers
to participate rather than protect themselves. We believe that this tells something about what
EERA and ECER are about.
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EERA European Educational Research Association policy Educational research
Citation
Hoveid, M. H., Keiner, E., & Figueiredo, M. P. (2014). The European Educational Research Association: people, practices and policy over the last 20 years. European Educational Research Journal, 13(4), 399-403.