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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Issues in Teaching Cognitive Science to Undergraduates
Workshop to be held as part of the AISB-99 Convention,
Edinburgh College of Art & Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
6th-9th April 1999. (Information about the Symposia & Workshops at the
Convention can be found at "http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/~geraint/aisb99/".)
This 2-day workshop will provide an opportunity to exchange experiences and
discuss issues that arise in teaching Cognitive Science at the
undergraduate or master's level. It will be of interest to anyone with
responsibility for such teaching, whether as an actual degree course in
Cognitive Science, or as an option within a Psychology or other degree.
Much of the time will be spent in small working groups, discussing issues
such as "Teaching students from different disciplines", "Using results from
cognitive science to help teach cognitive science", and so on. The
workshop will include
* possible invited talks from leading figures in Cognitive Science;
* contributed talks describing experiences and lessons learned;
* the working groups.
The working groups will report back to the full workshop. We will issue a
publicly available report: the appendices should be particularly useful,
with listings of course outlines, reading materials, and so forth.
A number of universities now teach Cognitive Science at the undergraduate
or master's level, either as part of a stand-alone degree course, or as an
identified option within Psychology or Computer Science. Contributions
often come from different departments, with Psychology and AI/Computer
Science playing a leading role and support from philosophy, linguistics,
etc. A number of issues arise when trying to do this kind of teaching, and
we suspect that many of the problems encountered at one university are also
experienced at others. It therefore makes sense to gather together a group
of people engaged in that enterprise, in order to exchange experiences and
share the lessons learned.
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE INVITED of several different kinds:
(A) Short talks, about innovative, unusual, or controversial
approaches or experiences in teaching Cognitive Science. For
these, an abstract of up to two A4 pages is requested (see below).
The abstract or a short paper will be included in the workshop report.
(B) Suggestions for working group topics. These should be emailed
(see below).
(C) Expressions of interest in attending. It will help us to plan the
workshop if we know roughly how many people will be coming as early
as possible. Expressions of interest should be emailed (see below).
(D) Copies of teaching material: course outlines, reading lists, exercises,
etc. At a later date, all attendees will be asked to supply such
materials, but they should not be sent at this stage.
PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
Rosemary J Stevenson
(Psychology, Durham: [log in to unmask])
Richard M Young
(Psychology, Hertfordshire: [log in to unmask])
Donald Peterson
(Computer Science, Birmingham: [log in to unmask]).
CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE SENT by email to
"[log in to unmask]",
to arrive no later than 15th January 1999. For the short talks, an
abstract of up to two pages of A4 should be sent, either as plain text or
as an attached Word document. (No other formats, please.) Authors of
abstracts for talks will be informed of acceptance by 5th February.
Presenters of accepted talks will be offered the opportunity to submit a
paper of up to 8 pages to be included in the workshop report.
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