Second Call for submissions - Transformative Dialogues

Colleagues

This is a second call for submissions for our next issue of Kwantlen's eJournal:
Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal.
http://www.kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth/TD/.

Volume 2, Number 1 - Exploring the Range, Assessment and Dissemination of Scholarly Activity in Teaching and Learning

What is Scholarly Activity in Relationship to Teaching and Learning? How Do We Assess Scholarships other than Academic Papers? We believe that in a broad definition of Scholarly Activity that includes scholarly teaching which we define as the application of teaching and learning principles to the practice of teaching to enable more effective teaching strategies and learning outcomes. Share your experiences and research around scholarly activities as it relates to teaching and learning and how we assess and disseminate our work.

We encourage a variety of digital formats that encompass:
Inquiry Articles (2,000 to 8,000 words)
Essays (2,000 to 5,000 words)
Service Projects (2,000 to 8,000 words)
Personal Reflections (500 to 1,500 words)
Images and other (new) media
Artifacts including presentations, poetry, etc.

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2008 - Publication: August 1, 2008.

All submissions must be received by May 15, 2008 as an unformatted Word or text document attached to an email to TD@kwantlen.ca.

Transformative Dialogues is a forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of adult teaching and learning. TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the scholarship of teaching and learning. These conversations are intended to span a wide range of reflections on the processes of teaching and learning ranging from the scholarly to scholarship. Reflections and understandings shared are focused on improving student and faculty learning, and critical thought processes in their current and future life long learning. We understand that scholarship may play out differently in different disciplines, but the basic principles should be consistent (Boyer, 1992).

Our journal adopts the principle that strategies, techniques and methods of teaching and learning transcend the boundaries of specific subject fields. We welcome relevant contributions from diverse settings such as academia, vocational training, continuing professional development, workplace learning, selected commercial exemplars, and social networking via communications technologies.

I hope that you will join in the dialogue with us in our venture to improve our understanding about the scholarship of teaching and learning.

looking forward

Alice Macpherson & Dr. Balbir Gurm
Technical Editor & Editor in Chief
Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal
The Centre for Academic Growth
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
www.kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth