Good morning,
Please share this with graduate students and early career colleagues who may be interested.
Thank you.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Stacey
Stacey Lowery Bretz, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Miami University
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
369 Hughes Lab
Oxford, OH 45056
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Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:09 AM
To: NARST Discussion List
Cc: Kirschner, Paul; Cindy Hmelo-Silver; Andriessen, J.E.B. (Jerry); Tom Moher; Susan Goldman
Subject: [narst] ICLS Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshop Applications
The International Conference for the Learning Sciences will be held in
Chicago June 29 - July 2, 2010: http://www.isls.org/icls2010/.
Since there is considerable overlap between NARST and ICLS members, we
would like to invite all who are interested to apply to the Doctoral
Consortium and Early Career Workshops which will run for 1.5 days before
the larger conference June 28 and 29, 2010.
How to apply for the Doctoral Consortium Workshop:
http://www.isls.org/icls2010/call.html#dc
How to apply for the Early Career Workshop:
http://www.isls.org/icls2010/call.html#dc
Descriptions about the workshops follow below.
Doctoral Consortium Workshop:
The Doctoral Consortium Workshop will provide an opportunity for Ph.D.
Students around the world working in learning science-related areas to
discuss their dissertation work among themselves and with more senior
mentors. Most applicants will be advanced graduate students, and be at a
stage in their work where the consortium participants may be of help in
shaping the research or analysis activities. The objectives of the
Doctoral Consortium Workshop are:
* provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current research
* provide guidance on future research directions
* provide a forum for discussing methodological and theoretical issues
of central importance to Learning Sciences
* develop a supportive community of scholars in the Learning Sciences
* develop a spirit of collaborative research across countries and
institutions, and
* contribute to the conference experience of participating students
through interaction with other participants and consortium faculty.
Doctoral Consortium Workshop activities are organized around small-group
interactions. During the workshop participants will first be asked to
introduce themselves through a short presentation about a particular
aspect of their dissertation research that they would like to discuss
because: they are seeking input on how to approach it, it is an
intriguing problem for Learning Sciences generally, it is an issue other
doctoral students are likely to be confronting, or it has the potential
for stimulating discussions of methodological and theoretical
importance. Then, based on the issues for discussion (theoretical,
research question, data collection, analyses, relevance to practice,
design, writing, etc), participants will form small groups (4 students),
and be assigned an expert mentor for further discussion. After the
intensive small group interactions, participants will report their
progress to the consortium. Plans for further joint activity will be
discussed as well.
The Doctoral Workshop will precede the ICLS 2010 Conference, taking
place all day June 28 and half day June 29th.
Early Career Workshop:
Under the auspices of the International Society of the Learning
Sciences, ICLS2010 is organizing an Early Career workshop at the ICLS
conference this June in Chicago. This Early-Career Workshop is intended
to provide an opportunity for researchers early in their careers working
in learning science-related areas to discuss early-career challenges
among themselves and with more senior mentors. Scholars who are within
five years of having received their PhD and in a research position are
welcome to apply, regardless of the type of institution they are in.
The three goals of the Early Career Workshop are to:
1. Foster community building between a) early career researchers
themselves and b) early career researchers and senior researchers in
order to develop academic, professional, and personal support network;
2. Build on the 2010 ICLS conference theme, to encourage
cross-disciplinary dialogue with emphases on understanding learning
themes and methodologies that both define disciplinary goals and also
more generally contribute to the Learning Sciences community; and
3. Investigate essential elements of successful academic and
professional participation as an early career researcher which may
include discussions on: building a research program; requirements for
tenure and other professional benchmarks; pointers for grant proposal
and journal writing; mentoring graduate students; and negotiating a
balance between institutional service, cross cultural issues, academic
writing, and teaching.
There are a number of activities planned which include discussions with
journal editors, presentations and conversations with leaders in the
learning sciences field, a focus on participant identified early career
challenges, and opportunities for participants to present their research
ideas and receive constructive feedback. The workshop also includes a
variety of social activities that will provide a way for those early in
their careers to get to know each other.
The workshops are being organized by Susan Yoon and Paul Kirschner, with
additional participation by members of the ISLS education committee.
Leaders of the workshops and invited guest speakers will be announced in
the near future.
The workshop will run one and half days prior to the ICLS conference: on
Monday morning and afternoon, June 28 and on Tuesday morning, June 29.
We are interested in working with a broad range of Learning Sciences
researchers from around the world.
On behalf of the workshop co-chairs,
Susan Yoon and Paul Kirschner, Early Career Workshop
Cindy-Hmelo-Silver and Jerry Andriessen, Doctoral Consortium Workshop
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