Second Call for Papers
Revised deadlines:
- Deadline for abstracts (max 250 words): June 6, 2013
- Deadline for registration for the conference: June 6, 2013
- Deadline for payment of conference fee: June 20, 2013
Registration: Registration is now closed.
The International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) in co-operation with University of Ostrava, Czech Republic is pleased to invite professionals from all over the world who work in the field of textbooks and educational media research and development to participate in the twelfth IARTEM conference.
The conference will take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic, 18 – 20 September 2013.
The theme of the conference will be:
Textbooks and Educational Media in a Digital Age
Conference Themes
- Changes in evaluating textbooks and educational media
- School subject-based research on textbooks and educational media
- The use of textbooks and educational media
- Educational publishing challenges in the new media
- Designing learning resources
- Textbook selection and approval
- Mobile learning research
- Transmedia learning systems
- Learning resources and transliteracy
- Language in textbooks and educational media
- Equity, access and funding of textbooks and educational media
- Identities in textbooks and educational media
- Future citizenship in educational texts and policy
- Special education and educational media
- Local culture in educational media
The program will include:
PhD Day on Tuesday 17 September 2013
PhD. students will present their research projects (research problem, research design, methodology). Experienced researchers will provide comments on dissertation projects presented by PhD students.
Roundtable workshop
“Teaching standards: Classroom teaching and learning materials”
The participants are invited to enter the roundtables with their contributions and/or to discuss the topics.
Theoretical and methodological session
This session invites research on textbooks and educational media which focuses on theoretical and methodological questions: theory and concepts in educational textbook and media research.
Local school visit
The visit of a primary and lower secondary school in Ostrava will be arranged for conference participants.
Registration
Please register and submit your abstract on the IARTEM website https://iartem.org/conferences/ostrava/registration by June 6, 2013.
Conference fee
- Non-members: 200 Euro
- IARTEM members: 140 Euro
- IARTEM membership (two years): 50 Euro
- PhD and Master students: 60 Euro
- Conference dinner: 40 Euro
The conference fee includes: conference programme, two lunches, coffee breaks, refreshment.
Pay to the IARTEM´s account by June 20, 2013:
Bank: Triodos bank
Banknumber: 198430493
BIC: TRIONL2U
IBAN: NL55TRIO0198430493
Papers
The working language will be English, and all abstracts will be written in English. Please paste your abstract into the registration form.
Papers can be submitted after the conference. All papers will be published in conference volume, subject to a process of editing and review by leading researchers. Extended versions of papers may be submitted to the IARTEM e-Journal and to the journal Orbis scholae. A special issue of Orbis scholae in English, focused on textbooks and educational media will be published.
Venue
The conference will take place in the city of Ostrava, at the New City Hall, Prokesovo Square 1 (opening, keynote presentations, conference close) and at the Faculty of Education building, Mlynska Street 5 (workshops, round tables).
Accommodation
You will get a special price in some hotels if you state that you are going to take part in the IARTEM conference:
- Hotel Maria*** (www.hotel-maria.cz/en ): single room €44, double room €54, prices are guaranteed by August 31, about 5 min walking to the faculty building at Mlynska Street;
- Hotel Bonum*** (www.hotel-bonum.cz ): single room €47, double room – 2 persons €77, double room – 1 person €49, prices are guaranteed by June 15, about 5 min walking to the faculty building at Mlynska Street;
There are other good hotels in Ostrava, e.g. Hotel Mercure**** in the center of the city (www.mercureostrava.cz, only 2 min to Mlynska St.): single room €80-100, double room approx. €110; or Hotel Park Inn**** (http://www.parkinn.cz/hotel-ostrava): single room €80, about 15 min walking to Mlynska St. (you can use public transport or taxi, of course).
If you prefer cheaper place to stay, there is a dormitory type of accommodation in Hotel Garni*** ( www.hotelvsb.cz): single room €28, double room €36. You will have to use public transport to get to the conference place (approx. 25 min by tram or by bus).
You need to book your own accommodation and pay directly to the hotel of your choice.
Transport
There is a good train connection from Prague or Vienna to Ostrava. It takes about 3 hours and the trains are really comfortable and quite cheap (Prague – Ostrava for about €20). There is an English version of train schedules available at: http://jizdnirady.idnes.cz/vlaky/spojeni/. If you decide to fly to Ostrava – Mosnov airport, it takes about 30 min by taxi or bus to get to the city centre.
Further Information
Information about the conference will be updated on the IARTEM web site www.iartem.org . You can also contact James McCall, IARTEM Secretary, at consultmccall@btinternet.com or Zuzana Sikorova, conference organizer, University of Ostrava, at zuzana.sikorova@osu.cz.
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