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1. Individual and Group Actors: Implications and Fields of Intervention

Visible and invisible actors of internationalization.
Leading figures: construction, reception, (de)mythification
Lobbies: organization and/or disorganization
Professional associations and labor unions, political groups, scientific societies, philanthropic associations, etc.
Role of international movements: workers, youth, women, religious movements, disability rights : Education Nouvelle/New Education/Neue Erziehung/Escuela Nueva, etc.
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Transformation and circulation of knowledge; changes in meaning at the time of their transfer from one country/culture to another
Mainstream discourse, justifications for and implications of processes of internationalization, globalization, continentalization, world-systems, cosmopolitanism, inter- trans- supra-nationalism, etc.
Transmission channels for ideas on education to targeted publics –adults, children, youth, people with disability– and to professionals of education
Production of different forms of schooling, and their variation from one period to another, from one country to another
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Nature and functioning of international governmental and non-governmental organizations in the field of education
Role of transnational organizations in establishing laws and/or evaluating/comparing the efficiency of educational systems
Evolution of international inter-school and beyond-school networks: intensification, rivalry, collaboration
Multiplication or disappearance of communication networks, editorial supports, sociability circles
Standardization and differentiation of legislation of educational systems
Interactions among higher educational systems in different states and territories
Media and their role in the internationalization of education
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Long-term historical trends, periods and temporalities of the internationalization of educational knowledge and practice
Dialectics among different spheres – local, regional, national, continental, international
Local translations/interpretations of international phenomena and their repercussions
Power relationships and resistance: multiple perspectives across different geographic areas
Influence of comparative education and of different levels of analyses
Effects of migration, old and new mobility, citizenship on modes of internationalization of local pedagogical knowledge and practice
What is taken for granted in physical and intellectual architectures related to education
Children geographies in comparative perspective
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Contributions and contradictions of educational projects during the Enlightenment, revolutions, colonialism, post-colonialism, world wars, the Cold War, etc.
Impact of processes of internationalization on the schooling of different social groups and populations
Construction and (re)definition of the role of the State in education; redistribution of power among local, national and international political authorities
Commercial logics of education versus public/alternative educational structures
Impact of domination and power relationships among countries and social actors on the internationalization of education
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Valorization of pedagogical innovations and persistence of traditional models
Professionals’ agency in the field of education
Ways in which non-conventional and dominated groups – Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Trans-Queer-Intersex, religious and linguistic groups, populations defined as “special needs” – re-appropriate, reject or question dominant education models
Place of education in protest movements: class and anti-racist struggles, decolonization, anti- and alter-globalization movements, disability rights, feminism, etc.
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Reconsidering conceptual frameworks. Subjects and methods in the history of internationalization: specificities, influences, differences and commonalities
Archives for a critical analysis of internationalization phenomena: materiality and virtuality, new sources and modes for their preservation and circulation
Opportunities and pitfalls in studying internationalization processes for understanding national education systems
The history of internationalization of education in understanding global societal changes and contemporary historiography: possibilities of reciprocal exchanges
Historiographic debates on concepts related to internationalization
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