Proposal Submission

All papers presentations, workshops and panels will be conducted in Singapore between 14-16 August 2016.

Major themes of interest

We are inviting paper presentations and discussion panels from geography education researchers and practitioners on the following:

Policy issues
Curriculum
Learning and Instruction
Assessment
Teacher Education
Environmental Education
Education for social/cultural understanding
Education for sustainability

Format of proposals

Paper presentation (20 minutes)
Panel Discussions (90-minute session comprising at least 3 papers)
Workshops (90-minute workshop)

Submission Process

The proposals will be in the form of an abstract. Please use the EASYCHAIR system to upload your abstracts. Please DO NOT send them via email. All submission will have to use the template here.

Paper Presentations

The paper presentation proposals should describe the aims, methodology, findings, theoretical and educational significance of the research and references.

As a start, we have proposed three descriptions of the scope and nature of paper types below for your consideration in your abstracts. These should only be use as guidelines in preparing your papers, and should your work require an organisational format that differs from this, please do not feel limited by this.

Empirical paper

Articulation of relevance to the conference theme/sub-themes
Significance for theory, policy and practice
Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding
Research method and design (research questions, context, participants, data sources, sampling, procedure, ethical issues)
Clarity of results or preliminary results and conclusions
References
Overall quality and scientific originality

Theoretical paper

Articulation of relevance to the conference theme/sub-themes
Significance for theoretical debate
Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding
Embeddedness in relevant literature
Clarity and robustness of theoretical argument
Overall quality and scientific originality

Best-practice paper

Articulation of relevance to the conference theme/sub-themes
Significance for theory, policy and practice
Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale or pragmatic grounding
Validation in domain of application (as research method, data collecting, research procedure, etc.)
Overall quality & scientific originality

All abstracts should be about 500 words.

Panel Discussions

Do note that for panel discussions, there must be at least 3 paper presentations in each 90 minute session and a discussant must be identified to critique and lead a discussion of the papers after all papers have been presented.

For panel discussions, we will need the following:

The theme and an abstract for the discussion session.
At least 3 (but not more than 4) extended abstracts of papers to be discussed.
A named discussant (other than the chairperson)
A named chairperson of the discussion session.

Workshops

For workshop proposal, we will need the following:

Title of workshop
Named facilitator/leader
Intended outcome and scope of workshop
Brief description of activities
Resources or IT support required

Proposals of paper/panel/workshop are to be submitted to the conference programme committee, using the online submission tool at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igucge2016. (now closed)

The submission deadline is now extended till 10 February 2016 due to requests. The organising committee will send out acceptance letters after 1 April 2016. All submissions will be peer reviewed.

Important dates

Proposals of paper/panel/workshop deadline 15 January 2016 (extended now till 10 February)
Letter of acceptance to be sent after 1 April 2016

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION IS NOW CLOSED

IGU-CGE Conference 2016 Main conference in Singapore, 14 – 16 August Fieldtrip and special symposium in Shanghai, 17 – 19 August