Dear Colleagues,
The Teacher Training
Department, West University of Timișoara (Romania), is pleased to announce the second
edition of the International Conference Beliefs
and Behaviours in Education and Culture, which will be held in June
23 - 25, 2016.
The aim of the conference,
proposing interdisciplinary perspectives, is to build comprehensive and
holistic explanations of beliefs from different sciences that have a great
impact upon education and culture. The conference addresses themes related to
issues and processes of education at any level, from kindergarten to lifelong
learning, from formal to informal education.
We propose topics of debate, such as but not limited
to:
* Educational policy impact in different
cultures
* Culture and emotions in education
* Beliefs and behaviours in culture and education
* Research and innovation in Education
* Technology and Digital Learning
* Implications of media exposure
* The representation of mythical spaces in literature and the
arts
* Gothic and horror in contemporary entertainment media: aesthetic
experience and emotional impact.
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Clive Bloom (Middlesex University)
- Professor Ingrid Schoon (University College London)
- Professor Alexandru Gafton, ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza"
University of Iaşi)
- Professor Ștefan Borbély (Babes-Bolyai University)
- Professor Régis Malet (University of Bordeaux)
- Dr. Sam George (University of Hertfordshire)
This interdisciplinary conference addresses a variety
of topic areas:
·
Educational
research
·
Pedagogy
·
Educational
Psychology
·
Community
Psychology
·
Psychology of
aggression
·
Social
Psychology
·
Cognitive
Psychology
·
Didactics of
specialty
·
Teaching
practice
·
Media studies
·
Cultural studies
·
Empirical study
of literature
·
Comparative
literature
·
Imagology
·
Cultural
Geography
·
Tourism
·
Gothic studies
Please submit 100 word abstracts by email to:
Participants may present their papers in
English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.
Due
to the great success of the first conference tour, Legends and Castles of
Transylvania, we shall also organise a one day conference tour on 25
June 2016.
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 January 2016.
Best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Cosmina Lungoci
