SECOND CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education Incorporating Advancements Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini, Elena Favaron, Elena Pacetti, Jonathan Bishop and Luigi Guerra Editors
A project promoted by http://lascuolachefunziona.it, with the scientific support of the Educational Technologies Research Group, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Bologna. Published by http://www.igi-global.com Contact: dropsintheocean.info.edu@gmail.com INTRODUCTION In recent years, the world has witnessed a growing wave of local initiatives in support of public schools. Teachers, cultural associations and civil society have been playing an active part in grassroots experiments aimed at helping schools in the creative elaboration of new educational methods, also exploiting information technologies. Here answers are coming from those directly faced with educational issues, in contrast with the more common top-down reforms, where experts’ committees draw up didactic experimentation plans to be put forward to willing teachers. Experiments like that are often very effective but, unfortunately, they rarely get known beyond the immediate sphere of their promoters. Moreover, they tend to be short-lived because promoters don't have the strength to sustain them and a suitable supporting network is lacking. They are like drops in the ocean: they apparently cannot change the entire educational system. But the ocean of whole human community could be flooded by many such contained experiments that would transform it, if the most meaningful of them could be fostered, spread and developed. OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK Aim of this book is to collect the most significant educational achievements carried out by teachers, school administrators and local associations working together with public institutions, from primary school to university, in a form that can be used by both scholars and people involved in improving the education system. TARGET AUDIENCE This book is aimed at
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SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Practitioners are invited to submit an abstract, less than 400 words, of their proposed paper. Abstract should feature an informative title that contains all the key elements of your experience Text should clearly highlight the pedagogical issues and explain the learning experience that has been carried out; authors should specify the topic, the type of school and age of the pupils or students involved. Please get the template. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 4, 2011 and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 12, 2011. All submitted chapters are to undergo a double-blind review process by at least three experts. Authors will be notified of the result of the reviewing process by November 12, 2011. SCIENTIFIC ROUTE Authors will be instructed to divide their chapter into a descriptive part and a structured part, so that assessment and comparison of the most meaningful features of the detailed educational activities can be made. An analysis of all submitted chapters will be made by a team of researchers from Bologna University. The outcome will then be discussed with all authors and finally published as a specific section of the book, as a guide to scholars through the collection During 2012, approved reports will be circulated as widely as possible, so that the more significant experiences can become occasions for learning and research furthering, as well as an inspiration towards an improvement of educational methods. Authors who are available and willing, will participate both in this circulation of reports and in the analysis lead by the research team of Bologna University. SEND PROPOSAL TO: pubblicazione-igi@lascuolachefunziona.it . PUBLISHER: IGI-Global IMPORTANT DATES: April 30, 2011: Proposal Submission Deadline July 4, 2011: Notification of Acceptance September 12, 2011: Full Chapter Submission October, 2011 Discussion with the Bologna university group November 12, 2011: Review Results Returned January13, 2012: Final Chapter Submission February 28, 2012: Final Deadline EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Audra Daubarienė, Center of Foreign Language (Kaunas University of Technology) Wallnöfer Gerwald, (Free University of Bozen) Lisbeth Amhag, School of Education, (Malmö University) Luigina Mortari Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, (University of Verona) Silvia Carbotti, (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Turin) Pasquale Moliterni, (Italian University of Sport and Movement - Rome ‘’Foro Italico’ University) REVIEWERS’ TEAM Under the supervision of Cesare Scurati (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan)Enzo Morgagni (Bologna State University) |