FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Papers, Workshops or Posters
Inspiring Leadership:
Experiential Learning and Leadership Development
The 10th International Conference on Experiential Learning
10 – 14 July 2006
Lancaster, United Kingdom
hosted by the Brathay Academy
in partnership with
The International Consortium for Experiential Education (ICEL)
The International Conference on Experiential Learning returns to the UK for the first time since the inaugural conference in London in 1987. The conference is aimed at practitioners, educators/teachers, trainers, community leaders, therapists, managers, policy-makers, researchers and others interested in experiential learning.
The conference will provide a unique opportunity to showcase and exchange ideas and insights about the nature of leadership and how the process of experiential learning can develop and strengthen leadership for individuals, groups, companies, communities and society on a local, national and international level. It will also ask key questions about leadership for the future. There will be a range of strands including:
* Youth Leadership * Business Leadership
* Leadership in Education * Community Leadership
* Leadership for Health *Leadership and the Environment
* Leadership and Mentoring * International leadership
Come join in the celebrations, as the conference will be a celebration of Brathay’s 60th Anniversary and ICEL’s 10th International Conference. These celebrations will provide a framework from which the conference will look at the history of experiential learning, viewed both from Brathay’s work over the past 60 years and also from the perspective of international developments since ICEL’s inaugural conference in 1987. A number of events will celebrate these significant milestones.
Brathay is a people development organisation with a unique sense of purpose: that people should learn to learn from experience. Brathay applies its know-how to inspire deep and lasting personal change across a complete range of people from youth to boardroom. Brathay’s experiential Brathay is an educational charity and social enterprise, ploughing funds back into youth work. The Brathay Academy brings together research, theory and practice and provides a source for innovation, development and influence. www.brathay.org.uk/academy_home.asp
ICEL is the International Consortium for Experiential Learning. It is a network of organisations and individuals whose aim is to promote experiential learning at a global and international level. It is governed by a steering committee who work through a network of regional representatives. ICEL offers an international forum for dialogue among practitioners, theoreticians and administrators in the diverse fields of experiential learning. It is particularly concerned with experiential learning as a vehicle for personal, social and global change as well as institutional and community applications.
Other events
The conference will also involve a number of other events, including educational site visits, reflection and networking groups, and pre- and post-conference tours. Details of these other events will be available nearer to the conference.
Site Visits will give delegates an opportunity to visit educational and cultural sites in the Lancaster area. This will include an opportunity to visit Brathay Hall, on the shores of Lake Windermere in the Lake District. During these visits you will be able to explore approaches to practice and gain insight into a wide range of experiential learning applications.
The conference language will be English.
Conference registration will commence on 1 September 2005. An Early Bird registration will be available.
Important Deadlines:
· Submission of Contributions Deadline: 31 October 2005
· Notification of Contributions Acceptance: 5 December 2005
· Early Bird Registration Deadline: 10 January 2006
Further information about the conference including details of registration and accommodation will be available by September 2005 at: www.brathay.org.uk/academy_home.asp or may be obtained from:
ICEL Conference Administrator
Brathay Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0HP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)15394 33041.
You are invited to submit proposals for contributions of Papers, Workshops or Posters.
The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2005. Late proposals will only be considered if there is space in the programme
Papers
Papers will be allocated up to 30 minutes, including a maximum of 20 minutes for presentation and at least 10 minutes for discussion. Sessions will comprise a number of papers on related themes.
Workshops
Workshops must be experiential and participatory in design, and actively involve participants. Workshops will normally be allocated up to 2 hours, although proposals for shorter sessions will also be considered. Proposals for workshops must include a short description of how experiential learning will be facilitated during the session.
Posters
Posters will be displayed for the entire duration of the conference, and must therefore be self-explanatory. Time will be allocated during the conference for poster presenters to introduce their poster to the whole conference and for delegates to discuss the subject of the poster with the presenter. Posters will be clustered around relevant themes.
Presenters will be invited to submit their papers or summary articles for Brathay Academy publication.
Submission of Proposals
Proposals must be accompanied by the completed proposal form (attached), and should be submitted preferably as an email attachment to [log in to unmask] by 31 October 2005. The file must be a PC-compatible MS Word document or Rich Text file.
Alternatively, proposals may be written within an email – they must follow the format of the proposal form.
If it is not possible to email a proposal, an MS Word document or Rich Text file on disk may be mailed to: ICEL Conference Administrator, Brathay Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 OHP, United Kingdom.
The conference committee will review proposals and successful presenters will be informed by email by 5 December 2005.
Please note that all presenters will be required to register for the conference and pay the full registration fee.