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> [from Nanett Mosumgaard]
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> Informal learning and digital media:
> constructions, contexts, consequences
> 21-23 September 2006
> University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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> A major international conference organised by DREAM (Danish Research
> Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials).
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> School no longer holds a monopoly on education. Learning is
> distributed across a range of sites and settings, and media and ICTs
> hold important stakes in this process of diversification. This
> conference will present and discuss the most advanced and exciting
> research on informal learning, its mediatized constructions,
> socio-cultural contexts and educational consequences.
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> Conference goals
> A major aim of the conference is to bring together an international
> forum of scholars from a range of disciplines including media and ICT
> studies, education, psychology, anthropology, sociology and cultural
> studies - and to promote dialogue within and across research
> traditions. We also aim to develop dialogue between researchers,
> educators and producers of new learning resources.
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> Conference themes
> Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
> . Informal learning between creativity and competencies
> . Informal learning: digital divides or new citizenships?
> . Repertoires of learning: aesthetics, genre and the meaning of context
> . Media and ICT literacies and conceptual learning
> . Planning and production of innovative learning resources.
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> Papers are encouraged from researchers with interests in any of these
> specific themes as well as the general issues of the conference.
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> Submissions
> If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 400 word
> abstract with an indication of which of the above themes you will
> address. Abstracts must include the title of your paper along with
> author name(s), affiliation, and contact details (postal address,
> telephone, fax and email address). Abstracts (format: pdf, doc, rtf)
> should be submitted to [log in to unmask]
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> After the conference, authors are invited to submit revised versions
> of their papers from which contributions will be selected for a volume
> focusing on the main themes of the conference.
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> Important dates
> 1 May 2006 deadline for submission of abstracts
> 1 June 2006 notification of authors
> 1 July 2006 deadline for early registration
> 1 August 2006 deadline for submission of final papers.
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> Keynote speakers
> Keynote speakers include professor James Paul Gee (School of
> Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison), professor Glynda A. Hull
> (Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley), professor Sonia
> Livingstone (London School of Economics) and associate research
> professor Julian Sefton-Green (Hawke Research Institute, University of
> South Australia).
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> Pre-Conference: One-day ph.d. course
> The research conference is preceded by an intensive ph.d. course 20
> September 2006, offering a venue for ph.d. students within relevant
> conference areas to meet with some of the main conference speakers and
> to make project presentations and discussions.
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> Conference language
> The conference language is English.
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> Stay informed
> Please visit the conference website for full scientific and social
> programme, registration form and keynote abstracts: www.dream.dk
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