[Apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times.]
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The deadline for submitting posters and papers to the 6th Intl. Conference
of the Learning Sciences (ICLS2004) has been extended through Monday,
November 24.
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Proposals must be submitted electronically via
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~icls/
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** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS **
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The Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2004)
łEmbracing Diversity in the Learning Sciences˛
University of California, Los Angeles
June 22 - 26, 2004
Conference Location: Santa Monica, CA
Paper and Poster Submission Deadline: November 15, 2003
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~icls/
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** CONFERENCE THEME **
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łEmbracing Diversity in the Learning Sciences˛
As a field, the learning sciences have drawn from a diverse set of
disciplines to study learning in an increasingly diverse array of settings.
Psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, and artificial intelligence
have all contributed to the development of methodologies to study in
learning in schools, museums, and organizations. As the field grows,
however, it increasingly recognizes the challenges to studying and changing
learning environments across levels in complex social systems. This demands
attention to new kinds of diversity in who, what, and how we study and to
the issues such diversity raises to developing coherent accounts of how
learning occurs and can be supported in a multitude of social contexts,
ranging from schools to families, and across levels of formal schooling from
pre-school through higher education.
ICLS 2004 seeks proposals that address and promote conversation about a
variety of diversities that confront the learning sciences, and to expand
the fields of inquiry that can contribute to understanding learning. We
construe diversity broadly, and seek contributions that can address one or
more of the following meanings of diversity:
… Diverse settings of learning and teaching including K-12 classrooms,
higher education, museums, after school clubs, families, and other informal
settings.
… Diverse populations of learners spanning the range of ethnic and
socioeconomic communities; urban, suburban, and rural settings; and across
the life span.
… Diverse levels of analysis connecting accounts of learning across
individuals, groups, institutions, and systems. It is not simply that there
are multiple levels of analysis, but that each level is complex and subject
to different forces than the others, and each operates across different
scales of time.
… Diverse characteristics of learners and social contexts expanding our
attention beyond cognitive factors of learning to include affective and
conative factors of individuals, interactions between actors in a social
setting, and the ways in which institutional and social factors impinge on
these interactions.
… Diverse methodologies and theoretical perspectives in contrast to recent
efforts to narrow definitions of what counts as research in education, we
seek multiple ways of describing and explaining learning in complex
settings, and attention to the ways in which particular methodologies
warrant claims.
For detailed and up-to-date information about ICLS 2004 please visit the
conference website at: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~icls/
For specific questions about the conference that are not answered at the
conference website, please contact: icls2004@gseis.ucla.edu
-- Noel Enyedy, Assistant Professor University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 2323 Moore Hall, Box 951521 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521Office (310) 206-6271 FAX (310) 206-6293
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