Calls for Papers -NJGE and Transformations Journal

CALL for PROPOSALS

Tenth Annual NJ Global Educators Conference
Thinking Globally: New Jersey & Beyond
The New Jersey Global Educators Spring 2010 Conference
Friday, April 16, 2010
Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ

Topics Include:

• NJ P-12 Initiatives in Global Education


• Uses of Technology in Global Education


• Sustainability – Economic or Ecological – Is there a Difference?


• Pros and Cons of Studying in NJ versus Studying Out of State or Overseas: To Travel or Not to Travel


• Opportunities and Barriers to Global Education


• 21st Century Skills in Global Awareness


• Global Citizenship: What does it Mean?


• Pros and Cons of Globalizing Curriculum Initiatives


• Current Assessment Strategies – A Help or a Hindrance for Global Education Initiatives


• Proposals from other related areas are welcome
  
  PLEASE COMPLETE THE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM at

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGpTZWt6UmJOd3ZDWFB4azg1ekhYNmc6MA..

Or

http://tinyurl.com/NJGEregistration

Deadline: December 1, 2009


and

Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE
TEACHING THE EARTH
Guest Editor: Anthony Lioi
The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 – 10,000 words) and media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. – 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore environmental issues in all pedagogical contexts and disciplinary perspective. Essays should raise questions concerning constructive pedagogical responses to local and planetary environmental issues.

· Ecological literacy
· Environmental ethics
· Natural, cultural, and financial economies
· Resource depletion
· Mass extinction
· Popular culture and the environment
· Religion and ecology
· Corporate greenwashing
· Celebrity environmentalism
· The Earth and the Internet
· Resource wars
· Indigenous nations and environmental sovereignty
· The queer Earth
· Nature writing
· Green cities
· Food and farming
· Radical environmentalisms
· Ecology in the Borderlands
· Environmental racism
· The Anti-Toxics and Environmental Justice movements
· Rural, suburban, and urban geography
Deadline: November 3o, 2009
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary forum for pedagogical scholarship exploring intersections of identities, power, and social justice. The journal features a range of approaches — from theoretical articles to creative and experimental accounts of pedagogical innovations from teachers and scholars from all areas of education.

Send submissions or inquiries in MLA format (6th ed.) as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format to: Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, transformations@njcu.edu.

OR

send a hard copy to

Transformations,

New Jersey City University,

Hepburn Hall Room 309,

2039 Kennedy Boulevard,

Jersey City, NJ 07305.

Author(s) name and contact information should be included on a SEPARATE page.

For submission guidelines go to: www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.
Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University