3. Conceptual Change

COORDINATORS

Xenia Vamvakoussi University of Athens, Greece xenva@phs.uoa.gr	Wim Van Dooren University of Leuven, Belgium wim.vandooren@ped.kuleuven.be

ACTIVITIES

We invite you to take part in the 6th International Conference on Conceptual Change (CC) which the University of Turku organises in co-operation with EARLI Special Interest Group 3. The conference will be held from 23rd to 25th of August, 2008 in the city of Turku, Finland.
EARLI SIG on Conceptual Change has been organising a biannual meeting since 1996. The two last meetings were organised in Delphi and Stockholm. We aspire to continue this tradition..

The last conference ended up in an agreement that the debate between the constructivist and the sociocultural approaches enriches our perspectives on learning and gives new insights for the design of instruction aiming at conceptual change. We welcome submissions from the following topics:

- Instructional Interventions and Learning Environments Promoting Conceptual Change
- Adult Learners and Conceptual Change in- and outside Institutional Education
- Emotion, Motivation, and Processes of Conceptual Change
- Methodological Approaches in Conceptual Change Research

CC will include symposia, individual paper sessions as well as thematic poster sessions. Invited keynote speakers will be confirmed later.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is April 15, 2008.

For any information regarding the guidelines of proposals, notice of acceptance and registration, please visit the website at www.otuk.utu.fi/konferenssit/cc2008/

or contact CC coordinator at the e-mail address cc2008@lists.utu.fi

Newsletter April 2008