A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Research in the Modern Academy (Apr 2022, VIRTUAL)

Dates: 20-22 April 2022
Location: Virtual
Website: AMPS Pedagogy
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 5 December 2021 (Round 1)

Today the education sector is going through what most commentators see as an unprecedented period of change. The assumption is that in the wake of COVID-19, many standard modes of teaching and learning have changed forever. While that is undoubtedly true and of fundamental importance, many aspects of what we do remains the same. Our need to publish, bring in research funding, and get positive student assessments have not gone away. The knowledge we need to impart, and the mindsets we seek to loosen or develop, remain as engrained as ever. Similarly, long established research areas are still to be explored. Whether it be the environment, learning psychology, social networks, creative practice or design thinking, what we research remains relevant and pressing.

In addition, despite the ‘strangeness’ of the change around us, some disciplines find themselves in unexpectedly familiar domains. The digital arts, media and communication studies are operating on platforms many see as natural. The proponents of distance learning are employing techniques they had been honing for years. Acolytes of educational technologies are perfecting platforms they have been developing for decades. The effect of the pandemic on our teaching and research then, is far from uniform or wholly negative.

Set in this context, this conference reminds us that, in addition to the pandemic, there are other issues at play for educators and researchers today. Asking us to take a step back from the flux we have been in recently, it invites us to discuss both the radical realignments that have been necessary in recent times, and those aspects of our pedagogy that have continued unaffected by remote teaching. Bringing both sides of this coin together, the intention is to better grasp the tenor of teaching and research in today’s changing, and increasingly hybrid, academy.

DISCIPLINES

This conference seeks to explore the current state of teaching and research across a set of cognate fields:

• Art and Design: Art practice, graphic design, digital art, spatial design, architecture
• Social Sciences: Sociology, cultural studies, media, film, communication studies
• Environmental Sciences: urban design, sustainability, engineering, technology

Strands will be set up in each area, with a book in the Routledge Focus on Pedagogy series proposed for each.

THEMES

The themes in each conference session will be drawn from submissions. Several are being developed now and are informed by the research interests of the university partners behind the event. Examples include:

• Sites, settings, location and context in teaching and practice: Ball State University
• Dealing with data and complexity in teaching and practice: University of Kassel
• Interdisciplinary learning, research and practice: Beaconhouse National University
• Socially engaged teaching and learning: University of Pretoria

Other themes include:

Case studies of studio projects in art and design; Physical spaces, material practices and hands-on making; Technologies in teaching and learning; Problem based learning and work focused teaching.

FORMATS

The conference welcomes case studies, design proposals, research projects, investigative papers and theoretical considerations in various formats allowing people to write a paper, present virtually in real time or present via film and have their presentation permanently available via the AMPS Youtube channel.

Zoom Presentations [15-20 minutes] | Pre-recorded video [15-20 minutes] | Lightning Talks [5 mins] | Written Papers [3,000 words] *

* After review selected authors will be invited to extend their initial 3000 words paper to full book chapter or journal article length.

PUBLICATIONS

Delegates are given the option to present their work at conference either with or without an accompanying full written paper. If written papers are submitted they should be 3000 word length. Formatting instructions will be available at the time of the conference. All papers are double blind peer reviewed and will be include in the AMPS Conference Proceedings Series, ISSN 2398-9467.

Publishers working with AMPS include:
Routledge Taylor & Francis | UCL Press | Intellect Books | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | Vernon Press | Libri Publishing.

After review for proceedings, selected authors will be invited to develop longer versions of their papers for inclusion in either a Special Issue publication of the academic journal Architecture_MPS ISSN 2020-9006, or in a specially produced conference book.

KEY DATES

30 June 2021: Abstracts (Early)

30 July 2021: Feedback

05 December: Abstracts (Round 1)

20 December 2021: Feedback

05 March 2022: Abstracts (Round 2)

15 March 2022: Feedback

05 April 2022: Registration Closes

Conference: 20-22nd April, 2022

30 May 2022: Full Paper Submissions (where applicable)

30 August 2022: Feedback for publication

15 October 2022: Full Paper re-submission

January 2023: Publication

SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION

Delegate Fee: $350 USD | Audience Fee: $180 USD

Download: Abstract Submission Form

Please send this fully completed document as a Microsoft Word attachment. Subject line for emails: Abstract Submission Pedagogy. File name for attachment: Name_Surname_Summary Title_Pedagogy. Example file name: Charlie_Smith_Yet-Another-Apartment-Block_Abstract_Pedagogy

Submit forms to: research@architecturemps.com.