From: Dr Kathy Harrington <k.harrington@LONDONMET.AC.UK>
Date: October 30, 2009 5:03:58 PM GMT-03:00
To: EARLI-SIG-WRITING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: WDHE 2010 - conference announcement
Reply-To: Dr Kathy Harrington <k.harrington@LONDONMET.AC.UK>
Dear colleagues,
Please find below and attached details of a conference on writing
development in higher education which may be of interest.
Best wishes,
Kathy
WDHE
London 2010
*Sustainable writing development:
Approaches and challenges
*
*Monday 28 – Wednesday 30 June 2010
**
**The Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, London, UK*
_http://www.rcpevents.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
_
*/Hosted by the Write Now Centre for Excellence in Teaching and
Learning
/*_http://www.writenow.ac.uk
_
*Call for papers preliminary announcement *
Established 15 years ago, the Writing Development in Higher
Education initiative has brought together practitioners and
researchers from a wide range of countries, institutions and
interest areas to help create the diverse and vibrant field of
writing development theory and practice we have today. The 2010 WDHE
conference offers a timely opportunity to take stock of these
achievements and consider the challenges that still lie ahead, and
to explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of the urgent
challenge to sustain and embed recent innovations in writing
development in higher education.
Across the university sector, the position and efficacy of writing
development work varies widely, with some programmes now well-
established and integral to the achievement of larger learning,
teaching and research goals. In other situations progress is less
visible, and it remains the case that much work is yet to be done
before writing development is widely accepted and institutionally
supported as a fundamental aspect of students’ learning and
achievement at university.
*Call for papers
Papers – workshops – symposia *
The 2010 WDHE conference invites all those interested in academic
writing development in higher education to contribute to the
discussion of the possibilities and challenges of embedding
sustainable writing development. The conference will be a place to
reflect on issues of sustainability with respect to pedagogical
practices that aim to enhance students' learning experience,
academic writing as a research area, and programme development at
institutional level. It also invites reflection on the potential
unwanted consequences of embedding writing within institutional and
disciplinary agendas, including concerns about a weakening or
appropriation of the humanistic and critical agendas that have been
a motivating factor for many who have been responsible for shaping
the present field.
We invite contributions from all those who engage with writing
development as part of their work in higher education:
* subject-based academics
* academic literacies theorists
* learning developers
* writing specialists
* EAP and ESL practitioners
* learning technologists
* professional development staff
* widening participation specialists
* policy makers
* students
* all others who work in this field.
We welcome contributions from the international community about
their experiences in bringing about sustainable writing development
in their particular contexts.
The presentations should be research-based including:
* reflective, practitioner-led action research
* conceptual and theoretical papers
* empirically-based quantitative and qualitative studies.
Abstracts should be submitted by *Monday 15 January 2010. *Further
information about review criteria and the submission of abstracts
will be available on the Write Now CETL website in November: _http://www.writenow.ac.uk/wdhe
_
Kind regards,
/The Organising Committee
/WDHE 2010 Conference
Monday 28 – Wednesday 30 June 2010
London, UK
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Kathy Harrington
Director, Write Now
Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
London Metropolitan University
Calcutta House
Old Castle Street
London E1 7NT
Tel. 020 7320 2254
FAX 020 7320 1236
http://www.writenow.ac.uk
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