Call for Papers

Deadline: Saturday, 1st of May 2010

From the 15th to the 17th of September 2010 the “autumn conference” of the German association vocational and business education will take place at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Interested colleagues as well as young researchers, who would like to contribute to the topics and formats mentioned below, are kindly requested to send their abstracts until the 1st of May 2010 to the following address:

Institute for Business Education
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Augasse 2-6
A-1090 Vienna, Austria
E-Mail: Elisabeth.beer(at)wu.ac(dot)at

Formats

1. Young Researchers Program
2. Paper Session
3. Poster
4. Forum

Topics for paper sessions and posters

Topic I: Research on teaching and learning in vocational education
Topic II: Research on history of vocational education
Topic III: Research on transfer of vocational education and further vocational education
Topic IV: Research on international comparison of vocational education
Topic V: Research on transitions within the education system
Topic VI: Output orientation and evaluation (Diagnostics)
Topic VII: Improving education for educational staff
Topic VIII: Development of Organisations and Schools
Topic IX: Other topics

Topics for forums

Topic I: Theory of vocational education
Topic II: New aspects of profession
Topic III: Vocational education at ISCD 3 versus Bachelor degrees on tertiary level
– a complementary or competitive arrangement?
Topic IV: Can business education exist without reflection on business sciences and reflection on didactical patterns of business?
Topic V: Experience on educating teachers for vocational education within the Bologna-architecture

Comments on the formats

Young Researchers Program

Within the Young Researchers Program young researchers have the possibility to present their PhD proposals. Their papers should be “work in progress” and not be finished dissertations. Experienced colleagues will facilitate and reflect the presentations. Additionally feedback from the participants will be given to the presenters. Both the presentation and the feedback should last about 15 minutes.

Papers

Papers within the listed topics above should not last longer than 20 minutes. The following 10 minutes give the opportunity to receive feedback and to answer questions.

Poster

Posters can be designed relating to the topics I to IX and should have a format of A0. The authors present their posters within 3 to 5 minutes in a facilitated poster session. Moreover the posters are exhibited during the whole conference.

Forum

Forums intend a collegial exchange about important and overlapping concerns and problems in the field of vocational and business education. On the one hand the forums should provide exact and differentiated descriptions of certain situations or problems and should on the other hand lead to discussions and focus on recommendations, concepts and initiatives. Within a forum short presentations (10 min.) can be held.

Guidelines for the abstracts

First of all, please indicate your chosen format and topic for you contribution.  A structured abstract contains maximum 2000 signs and the following aspects are obligatory for the evaluation:

Young Researchers Program

• empirical studies: (a) interest for vocational or business education (b) background/context/level of knowledge (c) aim/question (d) research design (e) first findings
• non empirical studies: (a) interest for vocational or business education (b) background/context/level of knowledge (c) aim/question (d) approach (e) first conclusions

Paper sessions/Poster

• empirical studies: (a) background/context/level of knowledge (b) aim/question (c) research design (d) first/final findings (e) interest for vocational or business education
• non empirical studies: (a) background/context/ level of knowledge (b) aim (c) approach (d) first/final conclusions and recommendation (e) interest for vocational or business education

Forum

• (a) interest for vocational or business education (b) outline of the main topic (c) possible content (d) intention of the entrance or impulse presentations

The abstracts will be reviewed. The results of this review-process will be announced until the 22nd of June 2010. The accepted abstracts will be published on the homepage of the association. It is intended to publish selected contributions in an anthology.

Call_for_Papers_Wien_2010.pdf

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