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From: Miriam Zukas
Sent: 31 May 2009 10:25
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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Critical perspectives on professional learning
Call for papers
Critical perspectives on professional learning
Fourth Annual Conference
11th January 2010
10.00 am - 4.30 pm
This one-day conference is the fourth in a series on professional learning, organised by the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University. It is intended for all those working with professional learning broadly defined. It will be relevant for those concerned with initial and ongoing professional learning, both in work and in educational contexts; it therefore focuses on professional learning in universities, workplaces and in and continuing professional development and education.
The theme, Critical perspectives on professional learning, signals that we are seeking papers which are critical of received ideas pertaining to professional learning. Papers will probably focus on a specific profession or context, but since this is an opportunity for cross-professional debate, argument and theoretical and empirical development, all proposals should reflect issues which relate more broadly to other arenas. Papers will draw on research, theory and critical analysis.
Participants will come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds such as education, medicine, health and social care, law, engineering and management. The conference will bring together academics and practitioners concerned with the training and development of professionals.
Papers from the first conference were recently published by Routledge in a book, Beyond Reflective Practice, edited by the organisers of this conference, Helen Bradbury, Nick Frost, Sue Kilminster and Miriam Zukas. Participants of this conference will receive a free copy. Papers from previous conferences may be found at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/meu/lifelong10/index.html
Keynote Speakers
Professor Anne Edwards, University of Oxford
Professor Olle ten Cate, UMC Utrecht
Call for abstracts
We have structured the day so that we are also able to offer participants the opportunity to contribute papers on the conference theme. We would like to encourage contributions which: take a critical approach to professional learning; suggest new conceptualisations of professionalism and professional learning; theorise learning; critique practices relating to professional learning and suggest new ways forward.
If you would like to contribute a paper, please submit your abstract to us by 31 August 2009. Abstracts must be written in English; be approximately 500 words; include a summary of the main topic of the proposed paper.
Each abstract should:
* have a critical and/or analytical perspective;
* show how it will relate to the conference theme;
* give an indication of the key theoretical ideas and/or policy and/or research to which the contribution will relate;
* outline whether or not it will draw on new and/or existing empirical data.
* At this stage, you do not need to include references.
The planning group (Helen Bradbury, Sue Kilminster and Miriam Zukas, all at the University of Leeds and Nick Frost at Leeds Metropolitan University) will make the selection based on the criteria.
Proposers will be notified of the outcome of their proposal by 30 September 2009, and sent guidelines for publication. If your paper is accepted, we will need to receive your paper and registration by 1 December 2009. Papers will be published on the conference website by 18 December 2009, giving participants a month to read them.
Please send your abstracts by email to Clair Atkinson ([log in to unmask]) no later than 31 August 2009
For further information please visit the conference website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/meu/lifelong10/index.html
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