Call for Papers: CoDesigns. Envisioning Multi-sited Language Education Policies, Jyväskylä, Finland, University of Jyväskylä, June 20-22, 2016

https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/applied-summerschool/summerschool2016

CoDesigns. Envisioning Multi-sited Language Education Policies

Jyväskylä, Finland

University of Jyväskylä 

June 20-22, 2016

Welcome to the international conference on CoDesigns. Envisioning Multi-sited Language Education Policies in Jyväskylä, Finland, June 20-22, 2016.

The Conference is organized and planned as a collaborative effort of the University of Jyväskylä Language Campus and by one of the University’s national tasks; i.e. The Finnish Network for Language Education Policies. The Language Campus actors, the Network, and the research projects working within these contexts aim at increasing our awareness of the significance of language related questions within education and the society at large. Further, the conference aims at increasing dialogue between researchers, policy makers, practitioners and other actors in the field of language education.

The Conference encourages the participants to submit innovative panels, workshops and other presentations that aim at promoting empowering designs and approaches to language education policy. Hence the theme of co-designs: rather than focus on “producers” and “users” of language education policy, we would like to turn our attention towards policy formation as a two-way co-operative process.

The Conference combines Finnish and international expertise in applied linguistics, mother tongue and foreign language education, educational policy and classroom research among others.

The Conference is aimed at all language and education researchers and professionals who wish to deepen their expertise in questions addressed at the conference: academic researchers, graduate and PhD students, language teachers, and special education teachers.

We are now inviting proposals for presentations in the international conference on CoDesigns. Envisioning Multi-sited Language Education Policies.

Conference theme

The Conference encourages the participants to submit innovative panels, workshops and other presentations that aim at promoting empowering designs and approaches to language education policy. Hence the theme of co-designs: rather than focus on “producers” and “users” of language education policy, we would like to turn our attention towards policy formation as a two-way co-operative process. The conference will among other things focus on:

bi-/multilingual education
classroom contexts
migrants and language education
language education and the working life
second/foreign languages
policy approaches

The Conference is aimed at all language and education researchers and professionals who wish to deepen their expertise in questions addressed at the conference: academic researchers, graduate and PhD students, language teachers, and special education teachers.

Academic programme

In addition to the talks delivered by plenary speakers, the programme will consist of panel discussions, paper and poster sessions, colloquia and workshops.

Talks by plenary speakers
Professor (emerita) Marilyn Martin-Jones, University of Birmingham, UK
Associate Professor Feliciano Chimbutane, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

T.B.A
Invited panel discussion  on issues of equality and equity in Nordic language education
Workshops by plenary speakers
Presentations (paper, poster, workshop, colloquium) by conference participants

The submission of proposals opens on October 30, 2015, and closes on January 17, 2016. This is done by filling out an online form.

Types of presentations: 1) paper, 2) poster, 3) colloquium (with thematically related papers, discussion and audience participation), and 4) workshop (with hands-on  activities based on some data or a specific topic)

Length of abstracts: paper, poster or workshop (500 words, max., including references), colloquium (500 words, max., including titles of papers but no mention of presenters by name; and if a proposal is accepted, an abstract will be requested for each paper, 300 words, max.)

Length of presentations in the conference: paper (20 min. and 10 min. for questions and answers), poster (size AO, max.), colloquium (90 or 180 min.), workshop (90 min.)

Language policy: The language of the conference is English. If a presentation is based on data in any other language, use of multilingual material (e.g. in Power Point slides, handouts) is recommended.           

The proposals for any type of presentation will be evaluated anonymously by at least two members of the Organizing Committee, and they will be evaluated for their

contribution to the field
quality of content
thematic relevance
quality of abstract (organization, clarity of expression)
for colloquia and workshops additionally: coherence, clear schedule of activities, discussion and/or audience participation

Presentation acceptances will be sent out in February 2016.

For any queries, please email: multisited2016@jyu.fi

The Conference website: www.jyu.fi/multisited2016

Link to presentation submission is https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/summerschool2016

We look forward to seeing you in Jyväskylä, Finland, in June 2016.

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