Call for Abstracts
Transformative Teaching Conference 2022
15-17 November 2022
Virtual
Organised by Florida State University, University of Dundee, Zayed University, Routledge and AMPS
https://amps-research.com/conference/teaching/
Submission deadlines:
Abstracts: 30 June 2022 (Round 1)
Nb. 05 October 2022 (Round 2 – abstracts)
THEMES INCLUDE:
- Technologies, virtualities and distance – the new norms of teaching and learning?
- Art, Design and Media Explorations – fostering creativity and learning
- Community embeddedness for reflexive practitioners and learners
- Design & Media economies – connecting the academy to the creative industries
- Modes of teaching and learning – case studies and experiments in pedagogical practice
- Creativity, uncertainty and social responsibility in education
OVERARCHING CALL:
The past two years have forced educators globally to concentrate on the reconfiguration of our delivery and structures. As a result, we have often been obliged to look at academia in primarily practical ways.
However, the higher education sector has never been exclusively concerned with the practicalities of delivery and has never existed in isolation. It brings in students from general education. It prepares them for a world of work and practice. In the process, it seeks to ‘transform’ them – opening students to the myriad of possibilities education is expected to bring.
Considered within this context, there a multitude of issues we need to consider. How we support entry level students? How we develop disciplinary knowledge and expertise without operating in silos? How we foster the critical self-reflection needed for lifelong learning? In a technologically fluid world, how do we keep up with changing media and practice? How do educators stay ‘connected’ with evolving student modes of learning and cultural expectations?
All this is connected to the ‘world outside’. The professionals we ‘produce’ will not only work with industry but will engage with communities. In the best of cases, transform them. How then, do we support the engagement and understanding of our students with the social issues and players they will engage with once they leave? In short, how are we contributing to the transformative experience of education?
The premise of this conference and its publications is that this is a useful moment for reflection. We are beginning to move beyond the pandemic and its focus on delivery. As such, we need to highlight once again a multifaceted consideration of what we do within the academy; how we teach; how students learn; and how we engage beyond its walls. In exploring these ideas, this conference welcomes papers focused on a range of related issues: skills building, creative exploration, personal development, critical thinking, external engagement, post-education employment, and more.
KEY DATES:
Abstracts (Round 1): 30 June 2022
Abstracts (Round 2): 05 October 2022
Conference: 15-17 November 2022
Full Paper Submissions: 15 January 2023
Full Paper Resubmissions: 15 April 2013
Publications: 30 July 2023
FORMATS:
Zoom: We welcome live presentations via Zoom. Presenters are recommended to download the Zoom app.
Pre-recorded: Pre-recorded presentations or films will be available permanently on the AMPS Academic YouTube channel.
Lightning Talks: For delegates wishing to present shorter presentations of their work. Subject to the level of interest.
Written papers: In all cases, delegates can present full written papers for inclusion in all associated conference publications.
Zoom: (15-20 mins)
Pre-recorded video: (15-20 mins)
Lightning Talk: (5-6 mins)
Written Papers: (3000 words)
PUBLICATIONS:
The publishers that AMPS works with include UCL Press, Routledge Taylor & Francis, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Vernon Press, Libri Publishing and Intellect Books.
Conference outputs include the AMPS Proceedings Series (ISSN 2398-9467); Special Issue Publications of the academic journal Architecture_MPS (ISSN 2020-9006); Books with the publishing houses listed above and short films available on the AMPS Academic YouTube Channel.
Written papers are optional. If submitted they should be 3,000 word length. Formatting instructions to follow after the conference. All papers are double- blind peer reviewed for the AMPS Conference Proceedings Series. Subject to review, selected authors will be invited to develop longer versions as articles in the academic journal Architecture_MPS or in specially produced conference books.
MORE DETAILS:
https://amps-research.com/conference/teaching/
Nb.
Related conference and publication with Sheridan College, Toronto, Canada:
APPLYING EDUCATION IN A COMPLEX WORLD
Toronto, Canada
April 26-28, 2023
Early Abstracts: 10 July, 2022
https://amps-research.com/conference/applying-education/