Conferences/Events
4th Annual Dr. Olive Yonge Teaching and Learning
Scholarship Day
Through the Looking Glass: Reflecting on the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Call for Abstracts
The Dr. Olive Yonge Teaching and Learning Scholarship Review Committee welcomes abstract submissions from educators or researchers with a focus on teaching and learning scholarship in higher education. You are invited to submit an abstract for presentation that will inform and extend knowledge and thinking about teaching and learning. Abstracts must demonstrate scholarly reflection about the teaching and learning process. In an endeavour to engage the audience and in keeping with the theme of the conference, presenters are requested to provide two reflective questions in addition to the traditional abstract.
Presenters will be required to submit a synopsis of their presentation, with finalized questions by March 1, 2012. All synopses and questions will be shared with registrants two weeks prior to the conference.
Presentations will comprise a 15 minute synopsis/summary by the presenter(s) followed by 35 minutes of discussion with conference participants.
Abstracts for poster presentations will also be considered.
Abstracts are to be a maximum of 300 words (not including questions), typed, single spaced, in MSWord and submitted by visiting: http://www.nursing.ualberta.ca/TeachingLearning/OliveYongeDay.aspx
Guest Speaker
Dr. Stephen Brookfield is an internationally acclaimed scholar inadult educationwho holds the title of Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. He has written fourteen books on adult learning,adult teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods andcritical theoryas well ascritical pedagogy. He has won theCyril O. HouleWorld Award for Literature in Adult Education four times.
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