2nd Global Conference: Writing: Paradigms, Power, Poetics, Praxis
22nd Global Conference
Writing: Paradigms, Power, Poetics, Praxis
Saturday 10th November ? Monday 12th November 2012
Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers:
This global research and publications project on
Writing will explore the many facets of writing
from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to
explore the many intertextual and intersemiotic
facets of writing as they exists in the digital
age but also taking into account the historical
forces, process and mechanisms, their
relationships to contemporary writing forms, and
the possibilities of future directions. 'All
writing comes from somewhere' and with this axiom
in mind this project will not only examine the
pragmatic elements of writing but also the complex
issues concerning the metafunctions of writing as
a creative and purposeful process across various
disciplines.
Papers, presentations, reports, workshops and
pre-formed panels are invited on, but not limited
to any of the following focus areas;
1. Writing as a Creative Process: Theory and Practice
- What are the origins and forms of creative
writing?
- What are the personal and interpersonal
relationship between creativity and writing?
- How is effective and creative writing
developed and nurtured?
- How do various disciplines understand the
pragmatic elements of writing and the thought
processes that underpin writing?
- What are the similarities/differences in
understanding between the related research
disciplines?
- How can creative writing be fostered in a
world dominated by measurement, outcomes and
benchmarks?
- How do authors actually write?
2. Writing across the Disciplines: Theory and Practice
- How do various disciplines define writing?
- The psychology, philosophy and pedagogy of
writing of various fields of thought
- What is creativity in theory and practice in
the business world?
- Can writing be taught?
- How do readers engage with writing?
- What does engagement with writing and the
writing process mean for adults and for children?
- How does writing develop in all age groups
or across age groups?
- What are the various forms
Inter-disciplinary approaches to teaching writing?
- Historical and contemporary representations
of writing as art, in film and literature?
- The future role of writing?
- How will the visual media be related to
writing in the next decade or beyond?
- The relationships between children's
engagement with television, film, visual literacy
and writing?
- Traditional forms of writing: what are they
and how do they fit in the visual age?
- The role and nature of learning theories and
their view of writing
3. Critical and Cultural Thinking
- How is writing linked to critical thinking?
Is it the same as critical literacy?
- Where does this writing ability come from?
- What is the role of the 'significant other'
in developing critical engagement with writing at
home, school and beyond?
- What are the conditions that foster critical
thinking and critical writing?
- How is writing engendered and produced in
different contexts of cultural contexts?
- Developing writing as life skills, social
issues and education for citizenship in the 21st
century
Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
4th May 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted
by Friday 3rd August 2012.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, up to 10
keywords
E-mails should be entitled: Writing2 Abstract
Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using any special formatting, characters or
emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts
will be included in this publication. We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did not
receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Phil Fitzsimmons
Faculty of Education,
Avondale College of Higher Learning
New South Wales, Australia
E-mail: [email protected]
Rob Fisher
Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-Mail: [email protected]
The conference is part of the Education Hub series
of research projects, which in turn belong to the
At the Interface programmes of
Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together
people from different areas and interests to share
ideas and explore discussions which are innovative
and challenging. All papers accepted for and
presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into a
themed ISBN hard copy volume or volumes.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/writing/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/writing/call-for-
papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a
not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference
travel or subsistence.
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