CFP: 2014 AAPT
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers
THE TWENTIETH INTERNATIONAL
WORKSHOP-CONFERENCE ON
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
The College of St. Benedict and
St. John’s University
Collegeville, Minnesota
July 30 – August 3, 2014
- innovative and successful teaching strategies
- professional issues connected to teaching
- how work in other disciplines can improve the teaching of philosophy
- engaging students outside the classroom
- innovative uses of instructional technologies
- the challenge of teaching in new settings
- methods to improve student learning
PROPOSAL GUIDELINES:
Send submissions, via email, to Russell Marcus: rmarcus1@hamilton.edu. Submissions should be received by Monday, January 6, 2014.
Each submission must contain, as an attachment, a proposal prepared for anonymous review, in Word (.doc or .docx), PDF (.pdf), or WordPerfect (.wpd) format. Please label attachments with your name (e.g., ‘Doe-Proposal.doc’). Contact information for each presenter, including institutional affiliations, may be included in the email or in a separate cover sheet. Please include a 100-200 word abstract suitable for the conference program.
Proposals should include:
- the session title
- the length of the proposed session (60 or 90 minutes)
- a one-to-three page description of what the session seeks to achieve, including an account of what participants will do during the session
- a list of references, especially to relevant pedagogical literature
- descriptions of any useful handouts to be provided
- a list of equipment needed
- To facilitate blind review, no identifying information should appear in the proposal.
Reasonably-priced child care will be available during the conference.
Model proposals from past years
The AAPT webpage for the workshop-conference.
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