THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION (EARLI) & THE TUM SCHOOL OF EDUCATION announce the 15 th Biennial EARLI & JURE Conference in Munich, Germany Responsible Teaching and Sustainable Learning EARLI 27-31 August 2013 JURE 26 & 27 August 2013 - FIRST CALL - 1
Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the 15 th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction! The Technische Universität München and the TUM School of Education are proud to host the 2013 EARLI Conference. We are looking forward to welcoming you all in Munich and giving you a forum to share and discuss your research with an international research community. We all live in turbulent times in which the issues of responsibility and sustainability are being discussed in many domains. During the 2013 EARLI conference in Munich, we want to explore the meaning of these terms within in the fields of learning and instruction. Therefore, we hope to bring together ambitious researchers from across the world and provide them with a forum to engage in both formal and informal conversations, to establish new links and networks which hopefully may last far beyond the time of our conference! Indeed, the theme of the conference is Responsible Teaching and Sustainable Learning. This title focuses on elementary issues that educational researchers investigate. Besides, it picks up EARLI s twofold mission in researching learning and instruction and connects it to recent developments in educational research and practice. We understand responsible teaching with respect to multiple and challenging educational goals, like e.g. knowledge, social competence, social engagement or political awareness. Our vision is that responsible teachers aim at providing powerful, motivating and social learning environments. They do not only prepare learners for particular exams, but for being able to develop their character, being open minded and develop own ideas. In other words: We want to stress the responsibility of teachers to create learning environments which make sustainable learning likely. We think that the city and the Technische Universität München offer the optimal circumstances for an EARLI conference. For more information on the city of Munich and the 2013 EARLI conference, please visit www.earli2013.org. We are looking forward to meeting all of you in Munich, the cosmopolitan city with a heart! Prof. Dr. Manfred Prenzel Conference President Dr. Martin Gartmeier Conference Manager 2
ORGANISATION OF THE EARLI 2013 CONFERENCE International Scientific Programme Committee Jos Beishuizen (EARLI President The Netherlands) Manfred Prenzel (Conference President EARLI 2013 - Germany) Costas Constantinou (EARLI President-Elect and Conference Mangement System Designer - Cyprus) Thomas Daniëls (EARLI Office - Belgium) Debra Myhill (EARLI Secretary Treasurer - UK) Martin Gartmeier (Conference Manager EARLI 2013 - Germany) Gloria Jahn (Chair JURE Pre-Conference EARLI 2013 - Germany) Lindsay Hetherington (Chair JURE Pre-Conference EARLI 2011 - UK) Local Scientific Programme Committee Frank Fischer Cornelia Gräsel Hans Gruber Heinz Mandl Kristina Reiss Alexander Renkl Tina Seidel Susanne Weber The Frauenkirche a symbol of the city of Munich Local Organising Committee Manfred Prenzel (President) Martin Gartmeier (Manager) Christoph Schindler (Coordinator) Jennifer Apel Johannes Bauer Elisabeth Blaser Andreas Gegenfurtner Alexander Gröschner Rosa-Anna Friedl-Gründler Claudia Geyer Gloria Jahn Verena Jurik Marc Kleinknecht Jessica Mattern Jutta Möhringer Bastienne Mues Katharina Müller Katrin Lipowski Anne Noll Andreas Obersteiner Ana Pantaleeva Sonja Reinhardt Christine Sälzer Tobias Sälzer Stefanie Schäfer Anja Schiepe-Tiska Annika Sondermann Peter Smej Deutsches Museum Munich 3
CONFERENCE VENUE AND SERVICES The EARLI 2013 conference will take place at the main campus of the Technische Universität München (TUM), Arcisstr. 21. The conference venue will allow for very short distances: The maximum walking time between two conference rooms will be about five minutes. Moreover, the TUM campus is very centrally located and is surrounded by many nice restaurants and coffee shops. It is situated close to Munich s central railway station and benefits from good public transport connections. During the 2013 EARLI conference, full catering ( lunch and coffeebreaks) will be available for all registered participants on site and free of charge. Beside wireless LAN-access, several computer rooms equipped with printers will be provided. As a special service for participants willing to attend the conference with children, we will offer an on-site child care service for kids between one and twelve years of age. This service will be made available in cooperation with the TUM Family Service. Two views of the TUM campus the conference venue 4
SOCIAL PROGRAMME The EARLI 2013 will feature a rich social programme which will give conference participants and accompanying persons many opportunities to get together, have fun and thereby build new relationships. The first highlight will be the Opening Reception on Tuesday evening. Don t miss this event where everybody is invited to grab a drink, find new friends and enjoy a (hopefully) warm summer night! Of course, Munich is especially famous for its beer well beyond both the city's and Germany's borders. Consequently, there are plenty of places to enjoy a nice drink - some of them magnificent! Our plan for 2013 is to hold the EARLI Conference Gala Dinner at a place in the very heart of Munich which will offer both a wonderful, festive atmosphere and a genuine glimpse into Bavarian culture. Be sure to get yourself a ticket in time for this great evening! Besides these two main events, Munich offers many opportunities for making your trip to the EARLI 2013 a great experience. Just to name the most proximate option: The conference venue is right in the middle of the Kunstareal Munich an area in which no less than 12 different museums are located in walking distance of the conference venue! The Königsplatz and the Pinakotheken are located right beside the conference venue 5
DOMAINS OF THE CONFERENCE Main Theme: Responsible Teaching and Sustainable Learning Learning and Cognitive Science Learning theory, learning and neuroscience, metacognition, reasoning, intelligence, discourse-processing, pictorial learning, learning to learn, cognitive skills, individual differences, artificial intelli gence, knowledge creation and creativity. Teaching and Instructional Design Instructional strategies, managing classroom discourse, social aspects of teaching, diagnostics, monitoring the evolution of learning. Developmental Aspects of Instruction Cognitive, social, emotional and moral development, learning and developmental difficulties, tutoring with young children. Culture and Education Cultural psychology, cultural diversity in school, multiculturalism in education, education for peace, morality, religion and education. Motivational, Social and Affective Processes Motivation, cooperative learning, self-confidence, emotion, affect, text anxiety, social aspects of learning, social interaction, peer interaction, learning styles, parental involvement in learning. Learning and Instructional Technology Technology in education and training, distance and on-line learning, e-mail conferencing, computersupport learning environments, multimedia and hypermedia learning, adapting computer-assisted instruction. Knowledge Acquisition and Expertise in Specific Domains Reading, writing, text comprehension and production, second language acquisition, science, mathematics, arts. Conceptual understanding and change, reasoning and problem solving. Curriculum studies. Higher Education Student learning in higher education, vocational educational, academic learning, counselling practices. The European Higher Educational Space. Lifelong Learning and Professional Development Lifelong education and learning, training and development. Assessment and Edumetrics Assessment methods and tools, portfolio practice, school-based evaluation, new modes of assessment, assessment of competence, educational attainment, school effectiveness, comparative evaluations. Teaching and Teacher Education Teacher thinking, teacher learning, teaching methods, teacher professional knowledge, teacher education. 6
European Integration and Learning Educational research in a European Research Area, organisation of educational research, the role of research on learning and instruction in developing education systems, research cooperation frameworks, training of young researchers. Learning and Special Education Learning disabilities, remedial education, mainstreaming, integrated learning. Learning and Social Interaction Learning processes in classrooms, social aspects of learning, classroom video studies, learning outside school settings, multiculturality, social interaction, peer interaction, parental involvement in learning. EARLI SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS SIG 1 Assessment and Evaluation SIG 2 Comprehension of Text and Graphics SIG 3 Conceptual Change SIG 4 Higher Education SIG 5 Learning and Development in Early Childhood SIG 6 Instructional Design SIG 7 Learning and Instruction with Computers SIG 8 Motivation and Emotion SIG 9 Phenomenography and Variation Theory SIG 10 Social Interaction in Learning and Instruction SIG 11 Teaching and Teacher Education SIG 12 Writing SIG 13 Moral and Democratic Education SIG 14 Learning and Professional Development SIG 15 Special Educational Needs SIG 16 Metacognition SIG 17 Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Learning and Instruction SIG 18 Educational Effectiveness SIG 19 Religious and Spiritual Education SIG 20 Computer Supported Inquiry Learning SIG 21 Learning and Teaching in Culturally Diverse Settings SIG 22 Neuroscience and Education 7
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS The Scientific Programme Committee invites both empirical and theoretical proposals for symposia, paper presentations, posters, round tables, ICT demonstrations and workshops. The official language of the conference is English. Proposals should be submitted through the conference website (www.earli2013.org). Before submitting your proposal, we recommend that you read carefully the guidelines about the content of proposals and about the submission process. These guidelines will be available shortly on the website www.earli2013.org. Please note that when using the online conference system to submit a proposal or register for the conference, you will require a valid EARLI username / password. To facilitate this, you will be able to obtain your username and password from the EARLI website at any time. You will also need to ensure that your email address is updated in the EARLI database and that you will not be using multiple email addresses when interacting with the on-line conference systems. Users, who do not already have an EARLI account, can register for a new account either from the EARLI website at any time prior to their submissions, or during their initial proposal submission / conference registration processes. If you are submitting a symposium or panel discussion, you will need to ensure that the email address entered for each active participant (i.e. presenting authors, chairpersons, organisers, discussants) matches the email address they have entered in the EARLI database. Consequently each active conference participant needs to have an EARLI account and have provided you with the corresponding email address before the submission. The email address will be used to retrieve the participants details from the EARLI database. For co-authors who will not be presenting a paper in the conference, a matching EARLI account email address is not required. In order to retrieve your EARLI username / password, you can use the password reminder: http://earli.org/passwordreminder. If you have any questions or concerns about your EARLI login, please contact the EARLI office at info@earli.org. For questions about the EARLI 2013 conference, send an email to: info@earli2013.org. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: 28 July 2012-31 October 2012 GENERAL REGULATIONS AND POLICIES You may not participate as a presenter in more than two sessions, and, in addition, you can act once as a chairperson of a symposium and once as a discussant (i.e. maximum four appearances). You may participate as a non-presenting co-author as many times as you like. PLEASE NOTE: The conference programme will avoid timetable conflicts for presenting authors, chairpersons and discussants, but not for co-authors! 8
CONFERENCE SESSION FORMATS It is important to read the guidance below carefully so that you select the appropriate format for your presentation. Selecting an inappropriate format may significantly reduce the chances of acceptance of your proposal! Each of the formats outlined below are equally valuable but serve different purposes. Symposia provide an opportunity to present research on one topic, often from multiple perspectives, providing a coherent set of papers for discussion. Symposia sessions are directed by a chairperson, involving four presenters and one discussant, from at least three different countries. We recommend that symposia conveners set an early deadline for possible contributors to submit to them and that each individual submission is checked for its own quality and its relevance and coherence to the topic of the symposium prior to formal submission to EARLI 2013. Please note that all active participants in a symposium need to have a valid EARLI id before the symposium is submitted! Timing: a symposium is scheduled for one and half hours, comprising 20 minutes presentation per speaker, ten minutes for the discussant, and 20 minutes for open discussion. Paper sessions are oral presentations of four papers, followed by a discussion with the audience. It is important that empirical papers have data and results, or they will not be accepted. Research that is at an earlier stage is very suitable for Round Table or Poster sessions. Theoretical papers, of course, are welcome. Timing: paper sessions are scheduled for one and a half hours, normally with four presenters, each with approximately 20 minutes for their presentation. Interactive poster sessions involve five or six posters, visually presenting research studies. A short oral presentation of about 5 minutes for each poster is given to an audience gathered as a group. After the authors brief presentation, an in-depth discussion between them and the audience follows. The poster sessions offer researchers the chance to present their work in a visual format and offer more opportunities for interaction and discussion. Timing: poster sessions are scheduled for one and a half hours, following the format above. Please bring posters in A0 or A1 format. Materials for fixing posters on the walls will be provided. Round table sessions offer opportunities for a more discursive exploration of research issues. This may well involve discussion of work in progress. The presenters explain their research and research issue, and invite the participants to help to discuss emerging data or to solve a research issue or problem. Round table sessions will take place in seminar rooms with a board-room style table. Five or six presenters will explain and discuss their research one after another. Timing: round table sessions are scheduled for one and a half hours. 9
ICT Demonstrations allow presenters to display, explain and familiarise users with a potentially useful teaching or research tool or method. The presentation may include references to completed research, but the point of the session is to demonstrate the tool, not present the research for criticism. The audience may offer their viewpoints and share their experiences with similar tools or different tools for the same purpose. Timing: demonstrations are scheduled for one and a half hours. Workshops provide an opportunity to familiarise participants with some aspect of research or teaching practice, so that questioning and discussion are suitably informed. Learning-by-doing occupies most of the session, and any presentations are brief. Adequate time for reflective discussion is important. Timing: workshops are scheduled for one and a half hours. A typical bavarian beergarden and the Viktualienmarkt, a historic market square in the center of Munich 10
REVIEW PROCESS Depending on the format and type of research report being submitted, the proposals will be reviewed by at least two referees according to the following criteria: EMPIRICAL PAPER Significance for theory, policy and practice Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding Research method and design for both, qualitative and quantitative approaches (research questions, context, participants, data sources, sampling, procedure, ethical issues) Clarity of results or preliminary results and conclusions THEORETICAL PAPER Significance for theoretical debate Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or Pragmatic grounding Embeddedness in relevant literature Clarity and robustness of theoretical argument POSTER (EMPIRICAL) Significance for theory, policy and practice Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding Research method and design (research questions, context, participants, data sources, sampling, procedure, ethical issues) Preliminary data analysis or Anticipated results POSTER (THEORETICAL) Significance for theoretical debate Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding Embeddedness in relevant literature Clarity and robustness of theoretical argument SYMPOSIUM AS A WHOLE Significance for theory, practice and policy Theoretical perspective, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding Organisation and internal logic of the whole symposium Each paper in a symposium will also be reviewed as an individual paper using the criteria outlined above. 11
ROUND TABLE Significance for theory, policy and practice Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding Research method and design (research questions, context, participants, data sources, sampling, procedure, ethical issues) Clarity of issue at stake ICT DEMONSTRATION Significance for theory, policy and practice Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding Validation in domain of application (as research method, data collecting, research procedure etc Quality of workshop format (activity based) or demonstration activities WORKSHOP Significance for theory, policy and practice Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding Validation in domain of application (as research method, data collecting, research procedure etc Quality of workshop format (activity based) or demonstration activities The English Garden is one of the world s largest public parks 12
EARLI 2013 SCHEDULE First call - March 2012 Deadline for proposals - 31 October 2012 (24h00 GMT) Proposals will be reviewed / confirmed by March 2013 Start conference registrations - November 2012 Deadline for early bird registrations - April 2013 Final conference programme - July 2013 Biennal EARLI Conference - 27. - 31. August 2013 WEBSITES About EARLI and EARLI membership: http://www.earli.org ; Email: info@earli.org About the EARLI 2013 conference: http://www.earli2013.org ; Email: info@earli2013.org About the Technische Universität München (TUM): http://portal.mytum.de/welcome About Munich: http://www.muenchen.de/int/en/ About Bavaria: http://www.bavaria.by JURE 2013 PRE-CONFERENCE It is our pleasure to invite all junior researchers of EARLI to present their research, at the 2013 pre- München, conference of the Junior Researchers of EARLI, taking place at the Technische Universität Germany, on the 26th and 27th of August 2013. We would like to encourage you to share your research with the JURE community to: receive helpful feedback from your peers on your presentation discuss your research with experts who are internationally designated in the field of learning and instruction be part of a dynamic network of young researchers of learning and instruction The topic of research should be within the area of learning and instruction and it should be (at least loosely) related to the EARLI 2013 Theme "Responsible Teaching and Sustainable Learning". About JURE The Junior Researchers of EARLI (JURE) is a network dedicated to the interests of all junior researchers of EARLI. The term "junior researcher" includes PhD-students and graduates who have received their doctorate within the last three years. The primary aim of JURE is to represent and support research students on matters that are of interest to them. Furthermore, learning and interaction among all junior researchers as well as among junior and senior researchers are significant goals for the JURE preconference. JURE arranges meetings where junior researchers can discuss their research topics with other juniors as well as with seniors, and where they can attend workshops on various topics, for instance 13
academic writing and presentation skills. JURE provides an environment where juniors can socialise and participate in the scientific community. Proposal Formats Paper sessions Paper sessions are 90 minutes, in which 3 conceptually linked papers are presented and discussed. Each presentation will take 15 minutes followed by 10 minutes questions. The session concludes with a 15 minutes discussion with the audience. Poster sessions involve visually presented research studies. Each poster is introduced with a brief oral presentation (max. 3 minutes). After the introductions there is time to individually walk around the posters. Round Table sessions are 60 minutes in length. Round tables should give you the opportunity to discuss outcomes as well as the design of research projects or research in progress. Each round table session will consist of 2 conceptually linked projects. Each presenter has 5 minutes to introduce his/her project and raise one or two open questions. Twenty-five minutes are intended for discussion. Presenters should prepare a handout for the other participants but not a slide presentation. Proposal Before submitting the full paper, poster or round table we ask you to submit a proposal consisting of Summary (300 words max.) Extended Summary (1000 words max.) JURE 2013 Schedule Deadline for proposal submission: October 31st, 2012 Date of notification of acceptance: January 31st, 2013 Deadline for re-submission of papers: April1st, 2013 Deadline for re-submission of posters and round tables: May 1st, 2013 Deadline for sending peer feedback: June 1st, 2013 For more information please visit http://www.earli2013.org If you have any further question, contact us: jure2013@googlemail.com We look forward to seeing you in Munich! JURE 2013 Organising Committee 14