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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 outcome. 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.

General Submission Format and Style Guidelines
Previously unpublished submissions (which are not under consideration for any other publication at the same time) are to be made at any time for consideration for future publication, subject to double-blind peer reviewer approvals, to the editor at TD@kwantlen.ca.
The file format of text materials should be MS Word, RTF, OpenOffice 2.0 or plain text. Please note that if accepted (and after any revisions), the file will be converted to PDF for online publication.
All written submissions are to be in plain English (colloquial and regional-term free), and be subjected to an English spell check prior to submission.
Use the American Psychological Association (APA) format as the basis for references. The rest of the submission should be in plain text.
The title page should contain the submission title, author(s) name, position/affiliation, institution, address, phone number, email address, as well as a 100 - 250 word abstract and a list of 4 - 12 keywords.
The author(s) name(s) should not appear in the original submission (except on the title page).
Labeled tables, graphs, images, and illustrations are to be placed at the appropriate places within the body of the submission with suitable titles and subtitles. If color or grayscale images are used, they should be tested on a black and white printer to ensure legibility when downloaded.
Citations, and suggested sources should be placed at the end of the submission.
Place page numbers in the bottom left hand corner of each page.

Expectations for different submission lengths are as follows:

• 500 to 1,500 words or equivalent artifacts - poster-style or creative media, using other self-selected page/font guidelines;
• Up to 1,000 words - book reviews;
• 1,000 to 3,000 words - speculative reflections, and tutorials; and
• 2,000 to 8,000 words - applied innovations and professional developments, research reports, and general articles and literature surveys
• 2,000 to 8,000 words - service and community projects.