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Call for papers: iPED 2007 http://www.coventry.ac.uk/iped2007
Deadline: 14th February 2007
The 2nd International iPED Conference 2007
10th - 11th September 2007, Coventry University Technocentre, UK.
Researching Academic Futures
This conference will be of interest to practice-based scholars, education
researchers, academic developers, as well as higher education managers and
administrators. It will build on the First International iPED Conference
2006: Pedagogic Research and Academic Identities, and aims to provide a
supportive environment for networking and academic exchange.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Paul Trowler, Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University
Sir David Watson, Professor of Higher Education Management at the
University of London
OVERVIEW
What will academic work look like in the future? Higher education is
increasingly global rather than national. Universities are called upon to
be entrepreneurial and engage more closely with business and the community.
Under pressure to perform well, universities are increasingly actively
managed. These developments bring issues of sustainability and ethical
practice into sharper focus, raising questions about the balance and
relationships between managerial direction, academic freedom and teaching
and research. It is in this context that traditional shared assumptions are
being contested. What questions should concern us? What capabilities are
needed? How can individuals learn and change? This conference provides a
forum for higher education practitioners to explore academic futures
through three themes:
1. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Universities in the 21st century cannot survive as learning communities and
businesses unless they embrace an international agenda. This strand will
explore international and global issues in higher education and their
relationship to academic identity, including:
• Internationalisation versus globalisation of higher education
• Quality assurance and internationalisation
• Academic mobility – opportunities and challenges
• The role of the university in a global society
• New technology and internationalisation
• Internationalising the university curriculum
• Researching across the borders
• Values and ethics higher education – an international perspective
2. LEADING ACADEMIC LEARNING
This strand will explore issues in the individual and collective learning
that takes place in universities. Drawing on literatures on academic
context, identity, and professional and organisational learning, it will
consider:
• The context for higher education and its implications for
individual and organisational learning
• Issues in academic identity, including professionalisation and
disciplinarity
• Mapping expertise at individual, departmental and institutional
levels
• Conceptions of learning
• Leading and facilitating learning
• Evaluating learning
• The nature and role of development communities
3. EMERGENT PEDAGOGIES
Approaches to teaching and learning are constantly evolving as they are
utilised by colleagues using different technologies and across different
educational contexts, disciplines, cultures and nations. An approach that
is well embedded and taken-for-granted in one context might be completely
novel in another. This strand welcomes contributions which examine:
• The development and tailoring of pedagogical approaches to meet the
needs of particular programmes and students
• Evaluations of the impact of teaching on students: both successes
and failures
• Teaching international students at home and abroad
• Technologies and tools for supporting global learners
• Responses to the demands of the evolving context in which teachers
find themselves
• The academic capabilities on which emergent pedagogies depend
Call for Contributions
Contributors are asked to ground their work in the relevant research and to
consider the implications for future practice in universities.
Contributions to the conference in the form of a 500-1,000 word abstract
are now invited.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 14th February 2007
Conference organisers:
iPED Research Network,
Centre for the Study of Higher Education
Coventry University,
Coventry CV1 5FB
UK
Tel: +44 24 7688 7595
Fax: +44 24 7688 7599
For more information visit the conference website:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/iped2007
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