18Dec 2014
CFP for panel on 'Teaching interpretively' at IPA in Lille, France, July 2015
21:43 - By Hal Colebatch - Events
Are you interested in sharing your experiences “teaching interpretively”? Please submit your proposal to join us in a series of roundtable discussions at IPA 2015 on “New Ways of Teaching Interpretively” that builds on a well-received session at the 2014 IPA conference in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The question at the heart of the discussion in 2014 was: Does an interpretive perspective lend itself to a particular style of teaching? The starting point was our shared belief that YES, it makes sense to think about teaching interpretively. But more questions emerged during the discussion than we had time to address, such as: What does it mean to “teach interpretively”? How does that differ from other ways of teaching? What “lessons learned” can we glean from our varied experiences as interpretive researchers that might be productively applied to interpretive teaching? And what are the primary objectives of this approach to teaching and do these objectives differ from those of more “traditional” approaches? We are continuing the conversation in Lille to address these questions and others.
To expand the conversation, we invite members of the community who have initiated / experimented with interpretive teaching to submit a 400 word description of the teaching initiative that you feel falls under the category of teaching interpretively. For the purposes of the 2015 panel, we define interpretive teaching broadly as a way of teaching that is open to all kinds of knowledges - including the knowledge of students and professors, experiential knowledge and theoretical knowledge and so on, and which is keen on conversation and critical thinking about the phenomena that are the focus of teaching and research. In your submission, please include descriptive information about your initiative, as well as information about your “learning edge,” areas in your teaching practice that you would like to develop in conversation with your co-panelists. We have in mind panels of 3-4 participants, occurring in sequence; the number of panels will be determined in consultation with the conference organizers. The panel sessions will follow a roundtable style (rather than being based on formal papers) focused on the key areas identified by participants.
The website of IPA 2015 Lille is at http://ipa2015.sciencesconf.org/ Please submit your descriptions at http://ipa2015.sciencesconf.org/user/submit before 3 February 2015. You'll hear about acceptance before March 11. Once we have constructed the panels, we will inform everyone of the final composition of the panels.
Many thanks and we look forward to seeing you in Lille!
Jennifer Dodge Rich Holtzman Merlijn van Hulst Dvora Yanow
Rich Holtzman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Political Science Bryant University http://www7.bryant.edu/history-and-social-sciences/faculty.htm?pid=50