What We Need to Know:
The Curriculum, Teaching, and the Learner

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

XI Biennial International Conference

International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

July 1-5, 2007

The program committee invites program proposals for the XI International Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology (IACEP), to be held July 1-5, 2007, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, USA.  The conference theme is What We Need to Know: The Curriculum, Teaching, and the Learner.  The scientific/professional program will feature the following types of presentation:

Keynote Addresses - Invited.  Topic central to conference theme.

Plenary Sessions - Major issues of general interest to IACEP members.  These may center on a single speaker with 2-3 discussants, or may take the form of symposia with well-defined themes and presentations from diverse points of view.  These sessions should cross the scientific and professional (practitioner) domains.  90 to 120 minutes, including discussion.

Symposia - Reports around a central theme, or varied approaches to a central theme, with both formal (programmed) discussion and time for “free” discussion.  45 to 90 minutes, including discussion.

Individual Papers - Reports of empirical research, evaluations of curricula, descriptions of program initiatives.  20-30 minutes.  Use of audio-visual aids strongly encouraged.

Posters - Written reports of research or applied initiatives, illustrated with well-prepared posters.  Presenters should be prepared to distribute their papers and to discuss them with conferees at poster sessions.

Mini-Workshops - One afternoon of the conference will be devoted to brief (2-4 hours) professional workshops.  All conferees will be entitled to take one 4-hour workshop or one or two 2-hour workshops.  Workshops should feature applications of specific aspects of cognitive developmental, cognitive educational, and/or cognitive assessment theories and procedures.  See X conference program (Durham) for examples. 

Interaction Sessions - Starting with minimal presentations on focused issues, these sessions will have major opportunities for interactive consideration of the issues.  Interaction leaders should be persons who are strongly identified with the issue(s) to be discussed.  These are essentially focused conversation sessions.

Pre-Conference Workshops - Proposals will be considered for extended workshops to be held immediately prior to the formal conference program.  Preference will be given to professional or scientific techniques, programs, and approaches that have not been offered frequently at IACEP conferences, i.e., novel themes.  Workshops may be programmed for one to four days in length.   Participants will be charged a workshop fee that depends on the duration of the workshop, at $50 per workshop day, plus materials fees where applicable and necessary. 

How to Submit Program Proposals

The initial deadline for receipt of program proposals is February 1, 2007.  If there should be remaining program time after the acceptable proposals have been allocated, the deadline may be extended, but potential presenters should not expect that.

See the conference schedule and the rules for submission (pdf files)

Abstracts of program proposals, regardless of category, should be prepared and submitted to the program committee chair by filling out the online proposal submission form.

Questions should be directed to the program chair:

 H. Carl Haywood
carl.haywood@vanderbilt.edu

or

144 Brighton Close
Nashville, TN  37205

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