"Innovative
teaching pedagogies interculturality and transversal skills”
Université Clermont Auvergne (France)
Communication et Sociétés (EA 4647) & Clermont Recherche en Management (CleRMa, EA 3849)
In
association with Shanghai Normal University (China), Utah Valley University
(United States)
Thursday
14th and Friday 15th November, 2019, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
According
to the OECD, the internationalization of higher education has accelerated over
the p past fifteen years. With nearly 4.6 million international students in
2015, higher education institutions place the mobility of students at the
centre of their methodologies. Most often student mobility takes the form of
semesters and internships abroad as immersion in intercultural environments
appears to facilitate the development of academic and non-academic skills.
Numerous studies have shown the relevance of this type of educational
experience (Ballatore 2006, Teichler and Janson 2007, Brandenburg 2014, Tarrant
et al 2014, Potts 2015).
Abroad, the student engages socially and academically with
a culturally different environment, which leads to experimentation and related
opportunities to develop multiple transversal skills. This encompasses the
development of a set of attitudes and behaviors associated with individual
skills, namely relational skills (ability to communicate, but also personal
qualities/attitudes such as enthusiasm), organizational skills (the capacity to
envisage solutions beyond the scope of personal reach), the aptitude to manage
emotions and empathy, the building-up of complex attitudes (responsibility,
open mindedness, adaptability, tolerance, self-confidence, desire to learn) and
even aesthetic skills which involve cultivating satisfactory images in
coherence with those – put forward by the organization (Bailly and Léné, 2015,
p.71). All these are generally known as intercultural skills.
However,
mobility experiences abroad are not the only opportunities for students to
engage with intercultural environments. Pedagogies can be equally effective in
promoting internationalization of education. This is the case when
international students work with local students on various projects, or when
visiting professors from abroad introduce students to pedagogical approaches
with which students are unaccustomed, or when two teachers set up, in two
different countries, a project within which students must interact via
information and communication technologies. In short, a multitude of
pedagogical practices exist that can potentially provide all students with
intercultural experiences.
This 4th International Teaching Forum will focus on these methodologies in order to
identify them, to examine the skills they aim at fostering and to evaluate
mechanisms used to measure their acquisition. In line with the previous three
conferences (two were held at Shanghai Normal University in China in 2016 and
2017 and one at Utah Valley University in the United States in 2018), the
overall objective of the 4th International Teaching Forum will be to address
innovative pedagogical practices in higher education in different countries.
Over two days, teachers and researchers together will work on issues related to
the contributions and limits of innovative teaching practices, based on
experiments conducted more particularly (but not exclusively) in the field of
communication and management.
For this
edition, the theme of pedagogical innovation will be addressed from the
perspective of interculturality and skills. Papers will discuss how teaching
pedagogies have fostered the creation of a context favorable to
interculturality and facilitated the acquisition of transversal skills.
Possible
topics include but are not limited to:
- How pedagogical practices promote the creation of an intercultural context
- What contribution information and communication technologies make to pedagogical innovations in intercultural situations
- What skills are developed by students (local and / or international) in the context of intercultural learning
- What assessment mechanisms are put in place to evaluate the acquisition of skills
- What skills are acquired by teachers in such intercultural contexts
- What mode of communication is developed between teachers and students acting in a culturally different environment
- What role intercultural communication plays in these pedagogical practices.
The Forum
aims to:
- publish the proceedings on the conference website;
- publish selected articles (finalized following the conference) in two journals (one in Information and Communication Sciences and the other in Management Sciences);
- publish a volume on Innovative Pedagogical Practices and Interculturality.
The main
language of the conference will be English, but papers may be presented in
French.
Dates and
place of the conference
The
conference will take place on Thursday November 14th and Friday November 15th,
2019, at Université Clermont Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
The first
day of the Teaching Forum will be centred on the presentation of selected
papers. The second day will be organized in the form of round tables to promote
the exchange of good practice and the constitution of workshops that can
continue to collaborate after the conference. The round tables will be based on
the thematics which emerge from the papers presented.
Submission
guidelines
Please
submit full proposals (1800-2000 words) in English or French by May 15th, 2019.
Each
proposal should include (1) a title, (2) 4 to 5 keywords, (3) an abstract of
1500 words maximum (approximately 10,000 characters)
The
abstract should clarify the pedagogical practice under discussion, how it
promotes interculturality in the classroom, the type of skills targeted by this
practice and / or the evaluation mechanism put in place to measure them. Clear
bibliographical references are required. Completed papers (between 30 000 and
40 000 characters, including spaces) will need to be submitted according to
guidelines accompanying the notification of acceptance. Anonymous peer review
and requested modifications will follow.
Please
submit your abstracts and completed papers (English or French) online here:
https://teaching-forum4.sciencesconf.org
Contact:
teaching-forum4@sciencesconf.org, cecilia.brassier@uca.fr
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