Proposals: Conference on Civic Education Research

Posted by on May 28, 2004

Conference on Civic Education Research

Reno/Tahoe Nevada, Hilton Hotel, September 26-28, 2004
Proposal Deadline: 6/15/2004

http://www.civicedconf.org/research.html

Submit a Paper Proposal by 6/15/04:
http://www.civicedconf.org/researchproposal.html

Offer to be a Chair/Discussant:
http://www.civicedconf.org/researchchair.html

Please Register to Attend:
http://www.civicedconf.org/researchreg2004.pdf

Register to Win a trip to the conf:
http://www.civicedconf.org/researchfree.html

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

This interdisciplinary conference will draw together researchers with a common interest in civic education. This research would include work on:
* service-learning,
* moral education,
* character education,
* democratic education,
* policy research, and
* studies of the citizens’ civic capacity and skills.

It is inter-disciplinary and will draw faculty from around the United States as well as from around the world, including faculty from

* Education,
* Political Science,
* Sociology,
* Psychology,
* Anthropology,
* Criminology,
* Public Policy,
* Evaluation, as well as
* Practitioners and policy makers interested in research and best practices.

The deadline to submit proposals is 6/15/04.

A separate Practitioners? Conference on Civic Education will be offered in New Orleans, from January 13-15, 2005. For more information see http://www.civicedconf.org/practice.html. For both conferences, the registration fee includes two lunches and two breakfasts as well as breaks. The registration fees are discounted for people who stay in the conference hotel.

CONTACT INFORMATION
This conference is sponsored by the Centre for Policy and Practice, an independent, nonpartisan organization that supports research and its application to real world questions. Staff at the Centre have experience organizing research conferences as well as practitioner oriented conferences with anywhere from 300 to 3,000 attendees. This work is inter-disciplinary in nature.

Centre for Policy and Practice
Conference on Civic Education Research
http://www.civicedconf.org/research.html
900 E. Seventh St., #202
Bloomington, IN 47405
Email: [email protected]