Call for Abstracts:

Learning & Teaching Conference
A Focus on Pedagogy 2026
Across Teaching, Theory, Technologies & Times
November 18-20, 2026
Online
https://amps-research.com/conference/learning-teaching/

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 10, 2026

Education can be seen as a practice in constant flux. Today, AI is transforming how we teach and learn. A few years ago, it was online teaching that reshaped classrooms worldwide. Before that, social justice movements were shifting our focus away from the ‘canon’ and, for several decades now, new theories like transformative learning and connectivism have been reshaping our roles as teachers. Teaching and learning then, are clearly phenomena in continual evolution.

Interestingly theories of learning, educational technologies, teaching models, and social contexts not only change, but evolve together across time —sometimes in sync, sometimes in tension. As a result, the academic landscape is always complex: a world of experimentation and tradition, subject specialisms and interdisciplinarity, shared practices, individual innovations and changing social norms.

The Focus on Pedagogy 2026 conference, Across Teaching, Theory, Technologies & Times, seeks to explore this diverse and dynamic concept. Among the aims is to learn about the past, present and future of education from across disciplinary boundaries, whether they be Art, Design, Social Sciences, Stem, Health, Media, Humanities, Environmental Sciences, or others.

We are interested in forward-thinking teaching practices in each of these disciplinary areas, as well as methodologies grounded in tradition. We seek presentations on AI, studio-based teaching, problem-based learning, the flipped classroom, ungrading, socially engaged pedagogy, peer-to-peer learning and more. We are especially curious about how practices from one domain function on their own terms, but also inform others, sometimes in isolation and sometimes in tandem.

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With this in mind, the conference brings together departments from across multiple disciplines, institutions and countries:

Glasgow School of Art: Critical Thinking in the Art School
Bangkok University: Valuing Local Intellect in Education
University of San Francisco: Race, Cultural Belonging, Skills, and Assessment
Chuo University Tokyo: Professional Education in the Age of AI
UC Copenhagen: Everyday Spaces
Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes – Mexico: Pedagogies of Resistance

Running throughout the conference is an interest in issues like AI, the psychology of teaching and learning, the art & design studio, STEM, problem-based learning, ‘engaged’ teaching, student health & wellbeing, academic-industry partnership, educational theory, learning technologies, and more.

KEY DATES

Abstracts (Round 2): 10 October 2026
Feedback: 15 October 2026
Conference: 18-20 November 2026
Full Paper Submissions: 30 January 2027
Full Paper Resubmissions: 30 May 2027
Publications: 30 September 2027

FORMATS

Zoom: Virtual presentations coordinated by AMPS

Pre-recorded: Pre-recorded presentations or films will be available permanently on the AMPS Academic YouTube channel

Written papers: In all cases, delegates can present full written papers for inclusion in associated conference publications

Zoom: (15-20 mins)
Pre-recorded video: (15-20 mins)
Written papers: (3000 words)

PUBLICATIONS

The publishers that AMPS works with include Routledge Taylor & Francis, UCL Press, 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 by Routledge Taylor & Francis 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.

SUBMISSIONS & REGISTRATION:

Registration Delegate Fee: $395 USD | Audience Fee: $210 USD

Queries: [email protected]

Submit your abstract [via the conference website above]