Abstract submission

Call for papers

All participants who want to present their work at the ELSIN 2008 conference are invited to submit an abstract. Submissions should be of high quality, unpublished, original work related to a theme of the conference or of relevance to ELSIN delegates. Contributors can submit proposals for individual papers, workshops, or symposia. A brief description of each type of submission is provided below. The abstract submission is now closed!

·        Confirmation of receipt will be sent by email within two working days.

·        All submissions will be assessed in a blind-review process by the scientific committee of the ELSIN 2008 conference on academic merit and relevance to the conferences themes. Key criteria for ELSIN 2008 are that (a) submissions should be conceptually, theoretically, and methodologically sound, and (b) that they address an interesting, relevant, and original issue in the area of styles and strategies of learning and thinking.

·        An overview of accepted workshops and symposia will be posted on the ELSIN 2008 website.

·        If accepted, conference papers should be no longer than 5,000 words (in total!). Submissions must be full papers. Papers should be submitted as an email attachment to: elsin.2008@vlerick.be. A template with more specific guidelines on how to prepare full papers is available here. To make the conference proceedings as uniform as possible, we ask you to follow the paper formatting guidelines as closely as possible.

·        Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on a CD-rom. Please note that only papers received by 30 April 2008 and that follow the formatting guidelines will be included in the proceedings.

Individual papers

Parallel sessions will be organised in which people can present their work in the area of styles and strategies of thinking and learning. If possible, individual papers will be grouped in thematic sessions. Each speaker will have about 20 minutes of presentation time, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

Workshops

The aim of a workshop is to create an interactive and active learning forum in which scholars and practitioners can be inspired by colleagues. Workshops may, for instance, provide an opportunity to exchange experiences and knowledge about how to deal with styles and strategies in practice, about how to measure style differences, or about how to teach style differences in the classroom. A workshop will take one hour and a half to two hours.

Symposia

A symposium is a group of 2 to 4 presentations (preferable 2 or 3 speakers plus a discussant) devoted to a specific topic and is one hour and a half to two hours in length. A symposium aims to be an active discussion forum on a relevant issue within the domain of styles or strategies of learning and thinking. Proposals should address topics of broad concern to the ELSIN 2008 participants. Symposia should be submitted as a single submission by the symposium organiser/convener.