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Call for Papers and Request for Info Current Issue -May 2008 Please scroll down for the current listing. Opportunities are listed in chronological order based on the submission deadline. Information for Action—A Journal on Service-Learning Research with Children and Youth Call for Articles NEW! The National Service-Learning Partnership, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is currently soliciting articles for the second volume of this new journal of K-12 service-learning research. A one-page abstract or precis is due by May 26, 2008 by e-mail only to the editor.
Articles are welcomed from three audiences: a) academic researchers who wish to report on current research efforts dealing with some aspect of service-learning (including teacher preparation), b) teachers and other practitioners who wish to share their studies and reflections on service-learning implementation that integrates theory with practice, and c) articles/reports by youth on research/evaluation initiatives that add something new to the service-learning literature. Each submission will be peer reviewed by individuals who are familiar with the specific level of research reported. For more information, see the submission guidelines at: http://servicelearning.org/filemanager/download/IFAJournalSubmissionGuidelines.pdf.
Be sure to keep your eyes on the National Service Learning Partnership website at service-learningpartnership.org for release of the first edition of the journal!
5th Annual Conference of the Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education. “Advancing Collaboration Request for Proposals NEW! Proposals should be in one of four formats: Proposal Submission Deadline: May 30, 2008 For more information and to submit online, go to
http://midwestconsortium.org/2008rfp.aspx
Call for Submissions
Service-learning, a community-based approach to teaching and learning, provides opportunities for students to discover linkages between theory and practice in authentic settings. Educational research and practice have provided numerous examples of service-learning as a tool for 'expanding the walls' of the traditional classroom, providing opportunities for active and cooperative learning, interdisciplinary projects, and multicultural experiences grounded in local community issues that enliven the teaching/learning processes. Many of the studies on student outcomes indicate that the combination of service with learning enhances student development, multicultural awareness and academic achievement. This special issue invites researchers and practitioners to submit articles and essays on service-learning in higher education with a special focus on the individual and institutional impacts of established service-learning programs. Qualitative and quantitative studies that can contribute to the growing knowledge base on the potential of this teaching/learning strategy are especially welcome. Other issues to be addressed include assessment and evaluation, social justice concerns, and the mission of the university in 21st century society.
Submission deadline: any time until the end of May 2008; see details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short. Please identify your submission with keyword: SERVICE Service-Learning Feature Editor: Judith Hope Munter, Associate Dean for Research, College of Education University of Texas at El Paso E-mail: jmunter@utep.edu Submission Procedure: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm or http://www.higher-ed.org/AEQ/rufen1.htm 2008 International Conference on Service-Learning Engaging Your Campus and the World through International Service-Learning October 2-3, 2008, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT Call for Proposals Utah Valley University is hosting an International Service-Learning Conference for campus teams and individuals involved in or interested in international service-learning. Participants will engage in a variety of workshops, panel discussions, poster presentations, plenary sessions, and other activities that will help campus teams and individuals learn about best practices in international service-learning. Additionally, participants will have an opportunity to develop a campus plan for international service-learning programs and academic courses. This conference may be beneficial for study abroad departments, service-learning faculty, international centers, volunteer and service-learning departments, and other organizations interested in service-learning at an international level. Potential topics may include but are not limited to: * Best practice principles and guidelines for implementing international service-learning. * Risk management issues in international serviced-learning. * Conceptual and theoretical frameworks for developing and understanding international service-learning. * Research on learning outcomes for students, as well as outcomes with international partnerships, faculty, and institutions. * Assessment/evaluation tools and strategies. * Best practice principles for developing international service-learning partnerships. Submitting your proposal: * Please e-mail your submission to volunteer@uvsc.edu by July 1, 2008. * The coordinating presenter will receive a confirmation e-mail confirming that the proposal was successfully submitted. * If your proposal is accepted for a presentation at the conference, presenters and co-presenters are expected to pay registration fees and will need to register for the conference via the website www.uvsc.edu/volunteer. Please direct any questions to Dr. Jason Slack, slackja@uvsc.edu or 863-8786. 2007-2008 Indiana Campus Compact (ICC) Faculty Fellows Book on Service-Learning Call for Contributors NEW! You are invited to contribute to a forthcoming edited book on service-learning. It will consist of a series of peer-reviewed articles outlining the course plan and best practices by experts in the field. The primary purpose of the book is to help professors and college and university administrators develop service-learning courses. Your submission should focus on strategies and techniques for implementing service-learning projects. Articles should be concise and reflective of projects that have been successfully implemented. With your submission please include a title page with the authors’ names and titles, and institution and department. The title of submission and three to five keywords should be included on your article. Suggested article sections could include: 1. Introduction 2. Project Description 3. Project Timeline 4. Steps for Implementation 5. Outcomes/Assessment 6. Conclusion Checklist for Evaluation 1. Article should be intended for higher ed. faculty 2. Article should be focused and concise 3. Article should include links to references and websites IF integral to implementation 4. Article could be discipline specific but should appeal to a range of practitioners 5. Emphasis on “how to” – rather than theory 6. Described as a step-by-step process 7. The project described within the article needs to have been already successfully implemented 8. Requirements for implementation should be clearly outlined 9. No more than 1000 words Submission deadline: June 15, 2008 to: M. Ange Cooksey, M.A./M.S. Senior Lecturer, Humanities & Social Sciences Senior Faculty Fellow, Indiana Campus Compact Indiana University East mcooksey@indiana.edu
"Thought to Action: Engaging College, Community, and Students through October 24-25, 2008, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY NEW! Proposals are being sought for individual presentations, panel discussions, and poster or visual presentations that highlight best practices in local, regional, national and/or international service-learning partnerships. Presentations from engaged faculty, staff, students, and community partners (including team presentations) are encouraged. Concurrent sessions are 60 minutes long and should allow appropriate time for discussion and questions. Community based workshops are 2 ½ hours and take place in the local community (transportation will be provided). This exciting two-day service-learning conference is being co-sponsored by Buffalo State College, New York Campus Compact, and the Western New York Service-Learning Coalition and will include both traditional and innovative community based workshops. Conference keynote speaker, Kenneth Reardon - Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University - will address current trends and impacts of service-learning in higher education as well as new ways of establishing effective partnerships among college, community, and students. The call for proposals deadline is June 27, 2008. On-line registration will begin July 14. Please visit www.wnyslconference.org for submission guidelines and possible topics.
1st Annual University of New Mexico Mentoring Conference "Fostering a Mentoring Culture in the 21st Century Bringing Best Practices and Research to Higher Education" Call for papers Papers are sought which explore effective mentoring strategies and best practices which support students, faculty, researchers and staff in their journey as academicians and professionals in today's (and tomorrow's) higher education settings. Those submitting papers should state whether they are focused on specific groups as mentors and protégées, or if their research is generally applicable to any mentor - protégé relationship. Please submit a 1500 word abstract by June 30, 2008, using this link: http://mentor.unm.edu/confsubmit.html Abstracts will be reviewed, and accepted papers will be affirmed by invitation by July 15th, 2008; complete papers will be due by August 31, 2008. We look forward to this opportunity for interaction and engagement with mentoring researchers and practitioners. Submissions are invited for two types of sessions:1. Posters - Research topics, questions, results and discussion will be presented on a poster up to 36" by 48". Presenters will be asked to be available to discuss their posters during a particular session, but posters will be viewable to attendees for an extended period. 2. Panels - Researchers, as individuals or small groups, will briefly present studies with opportunities for audience questions and comment. Two or more studies will be presented in each session. The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education Call for Papers Sponsored by Indiana State University's Center for Public Service and Community Engagement, this new journal is intended to serve as a forum for the review of research and practice by professionals in higher education in the fields of community engagement and engaged learning practices.
Papers for the first edition are due June 30, 2008 For more information, visit http://www1.indstate.edu/jcehe/. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) AASHE 2008: Working Together for Sustainability – On Campus and Beyond Nov 9-11, 2008, Raleigh, NC Call for Posters AASHE 2008 offers an exciting and unique opportunity for every sector of higher education in the U.S. and Canada to demonstrate how colleges and universities and their partners can lead the way to a sustainable future. Poster submissions are due by September 1, 2008. The Call for Proposals is posted at http://www.aashe.org/conf2008/call.php International Journal of Organizational Analysis Special Issue: Shaping Our Unscripted Future with Service-Learning: When Technology, Globalism, and Community Engagement Collide Call for Papers
The goal of this special issue is to provide IJOA readers, as well as service-learning authors and practitioners, with an overview of the application and outcomes of service-learning as a teaching tool in today’s rapidly changing environment. This special issue will explore the strengths and challenges of service-learning practice in the context of our unscripted future – with a specific focus on the interrelationships between technological advances, global access and interest, and community engagement. Topics will include not only how service-learning is being applied as a tool to explore and understand complex environments but also why service-learning is being used in terms of leveraging educational opportunities into desired outcomes for students, universities, and community members. Our goal is to expand the current literature in directions that reflect today’s global, diverse, interconnected, and uncertain organizational environments.
We encourage submissions from: · Organizational researchers and practitioners from across the disciplines who are actively engaged in cutting edge service-learning applications with a focus on new technological and/or international applications – encompassing both stand-alone programs and those involving partners from different global locations. · Practitioners who work in non-traditional organizational disciplines and from those who are using advanced technological applications to heighten the quality of service-learning programs. Articles should be 4,000 - 6,000 words in length with an appropriate title. Manuscripts should be set out using 12-point Times New Roman font, double-line spacing throughout, with single-spaces between sentences, and 1 inch (25mm) margins. A brief autobiographical note should be supplied including full name, affiliation, e-mail address and full international contact details. For manuscript submission guidelines, see: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijoa/notes.jsp The submission deadline is September 26, 2008. Authors are strongly encouraged to contact either of the two guest editors, Amy Kenworthy-U’Ren (akenwort@bond.edu.au) or Laurie DiPadova-Stocks (ldipadovastocks@park.edu), to discuss possible submissions. Early submissions are encouraged.
COMM-ORG Call for Papers Are you writing a paper on community organizing, community development, community planning, community-based research or a related area? COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page. All papers are posted on the COMM-ORG website and announced on its accompanying list-serve, which reaches over 1000 people across more than a dozen nations. They welcome discussion of all papers on the list-serve and encourage our members to also send comments directly to authors. They are especially interested in papers on the following and other topics: What works and what doesn't in community organizing,planning, and development? Real-life stories of community organizing and/or development campaigns. The relationships between theories and practices in community organizing. The history of community organizing in a changing structural-historical context. Linkages between community organizing and community development. Linkages between community organizing and planning. The roles of religious institutions in community organizing. Linkages between community organizing and social movements. The roles of gender, race, identity, and ideology incommunity organizing. Activist-academic collaborations in community organizing. The paper must be submitted electronically to Randy Stoecker at randy@comm-org.wisc.edu using a word processing or html format; absolutely no pdf files will be considered. * Text must be in single column format. You agree that your paper will be formatted in html using theCOMM-ORG style. Authors retain complete control over their work, and COMM-ORG supports authors revising their papers for submission to journals, trade publications, or anywhere. Because COMM-ORG is an on-line "conference,"papers presented on COMM-ORG are regularly published in journals and other publications. COMM-ORG welcomes papers from scholars, organizers, and scholar-organizers. They also welcome previously published hard-to-find writing. |
