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Call for papers - Extended dead line

Papers, round-tables and poster sessions will be welcome which address one or more of the following areas across the wide range of adult education contexts:

  • The role and impact of adult education and learning in changing lives in times of crisis
  • The effects of the crisis on the professional identities of adult educators
  • Conceptual, theoretical and inter-disciplinary approaches to transitions, identity and learning career
  • The impact and role of class, gender, ethnicity and disability
  • Methodological approaches to researching access, transitions, identity and learning career

Proposals are invited for papers, poster sessions, symposiums and round tables. Please submit abstracts in two separate files: one including the paper title, the name, address, e-mail of each author and information on whether it is a paper, poster session, symposium or round table; and the second one including the paper title and abstract. Abstracts should be one side of A4 maximum with Arial, 12 points. Please send your abstract in RTF-format. Please submit your abstract to Barbara Merrill.  

All abstracts for papers, poster sessions, symposiums and round tables to be submitted by 31 July, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be by 28 June, 2013. The deadline for the submission of completed papers will be 1 October, 2013.

Information for contributors of Abstracts/Papers

  • A paper is proposed and submitted in the form of an abstract by one person. Up to three other people can be named as co-authors in the abstract proposal.
  • For each participant, a maximum of two such proposals may be submitted in which the person is named as an author or co-author.
  • The abstract proposal must indicate which of the named authors will be presenting the paper. All those authors attending must register for the ESREA 2013 Conference for Access, Learning career and Identity.
  • The author or one of the named co-authors is responsible for communicating with the ESREA Conference Organisers about the paper.
  • The conference organizers will allocate a chairperson and a discussant for each paper.
  • Accepted abstracts will be downloadable in PDF-format on the Conference website. 

Criteria for Review of Abstracts

Abstracts for papers are welcome from all fields of research on adult learning. The criteria used in reviewing each abstract will be as follows:

  • Should be directly related to specified aspects of adult learning;
  • Should make reference to a theoretical framework, involve systematic enquiry of an analytic or empirical nature;
  • Background, method, results and implications should be set out clearly in a manner which is accessible to an international audience.

Language

The abstract, the paper and its presentation should be in English. Simultaneous translation will not be available in plenary sessions. However, in line with the ESREA language policy, efforts will be made to provide some translation in the parallel sessions.
Please bear in mind when presenting a paper that you are speaking to an international audience, the majority of whom may not be familiar with your own country let alone its adult educational system. Please avoid the use of acronyms and do not use expressions which relate to your adult educational system without providing a contextualization.


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