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TD 1.3 Call for submissions

  • 1.  TD 1.3 Call for submissions

    Posted 11-09-2007 15:48

    Dear Colleagues

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

    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. The specific call for submissions for this issue is below.

    Volume 1, Number 3 -  Change and Transition: Change in our Lives and Life in our Changes
    Change and Transition: Change in our Lives and Life in our Changes (Course and program development, evolution and revolution, student lives, student success and retention, 'digital immigrants' and 'natives', incremental, rapid, staged, planned and organic, chaos theory.)
    Submission Deadline: December 1, 2007 - Publication: February, 2008.
    All submissions must be received by December 15, 2007 as a Word or text document attached to an email to td@kwantlen.ca.

    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    Previously unpublished submissions (which are not under consideration for any other publication at the same time) are to be made at any time for consideration for future publication,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.
    Please note that the editors are more interested in quality of content (with some formatting accommodations for readability) versus perfectly APA formatted, but weak submissions. The editors encourage the use of tables, figures, images, etc. to illustrate and support text, as well as between 5 and 30 references and/or suitable reflections on process (depending on the submission type).

    Copyright remains with the author(s) except for this particular electronic publication.

    Permission is granted to Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work under the following conditions: Attribution - You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work); Non-commercial - You may not use this work for commercial purposes; No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

    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 / mirando hacia adelante

    Alice Macpherson                                                                       Dr. Balbir Gurm
    Technical Editor                                                                           Editor
    Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal
    The Centre for Academic Growth
    Kwantlen University College
    www.kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth
    604 599-3040

    "Does teaching constitute research? Not necessarily. If you think about what you do, discuss it openly with peers, view it as problematic and change because of the reflection ... then it is research. What I research is what I do." - Martin Owen (1999)

    "¿Constituye la enseñanza investigación? No necesariamente. Si usted piensa en lo que usted hace, habla de ello abiertamente con sus pares, véalo como problemático y cambie debido a la reflexión ... entonces esto es investigación. Lo que investigo es lo que hago." - Martin Owen (1999)