Please find below the Call for Papers and further conference details for the
above conference which is due to take place on the 4th- 7th July 2006 at
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Penrith Campus, Cumbria. 

Website address:
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/host/oerc/index.htm

The abstract deadline has now been extended until the 31st March 2006.

If you would like to submit an abstract or would like further information
and to register your interest in the conference please contact myself: Gail
Simpson by e-mail [log in to unmask] or telephone +44 (0) 1772 892656.

Call for Papers

Widening Horizons: Diversity in Theoretical and Critical Views of Outdoor
Education

The Third International Outdoor Education Research Conference 4th- 7th July 2006

To be hosted at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Penrith
Campus, Newton Rigg, Penrith, Cumbria, UK

This International conference aims to open up 'blind spots' in the existing
understanding of outdoor education by engaging with a greater variety of
theoretical and critical approaches than have traditionally been associated
with outdoor education research. Policy studies, curriculum studies,
economic based research and critical/post structuralist research, have all
been identified as potentially valuable areas for outdoor education research
to engage with. This is not however a finite list and consideration will be
given to other disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives that
contribute to widening critical and theoretical understanding.

The conference will build on discussion from the two previous International
Outdoor Education Research Conferences held at Buckinghamshire Chilterns
University College, UK, in 2002 and Latrobe University, Australia, in 2004.
As well as welcoming researchers from a greater variety of theoretical and
disciplinary views the conference aims to attract research from people
already doing critical work in outdoor education.  This will enable further
development of critiques of theoretical and disciplinary 'traditions' in
outdoor education by building on existing research in the field.  Overall
this approach will open up new avenues of understanding, as well as engaging
with, and developing existing critical research in outdoor education.

With these aims in mind the UCLan based 2006 conference is interested in
researchers submitting papers which either:
 
offer new disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives or, further
develop critique of existing theoretical and disciplinary 'traditions' in
the following subject areas:

Marginalised groups and processes of exclusion/inclusion in outdoor education;
Social and cultural construction of identity and experience in outdoor
education;
Cross-cultural perspectives on outdoor education;
Politics of outdoor education;
Environmental connectedness/connections in outdoor education.

Abstracts of no more than 150 words for a 15-20 minute paper are invited by
the conference organisers. They should be forwarded as an email attachment
to Gail Simpson, [log in to unmask], listing name, organisation, contact
address, telephone and email address and should include the title of the
proposed paper.

The closing date for abstracts is 31st march 2006.  Confirmation of
acceptance of abstracts will be forwarded in due course.

Please note that paper presenters need to register for the conference and
pay the registration fee.

All booking details can be found on the conference website.

Please address all general enquiries and abstracts to:
Gail Simpson, Conference Officer, Conference and Events Management,
University of Central Lancashire, Foster Building, Room 10, Preston PR1
2HE, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1772 892656
Fax: +44 (0) 1772 892977
Email: [log in to unmask]

Thank you for your interest and please do not hesitate to contact me
if you require any further details.

Gail Simpson
Conference Officer
Conference & Events Management
University Of Central Lancashire
Room 10
Foster Building, Preston, Lancashire PR1 2HE.
Tel No: 01772 892656
Fax No: 01772 892977