The 18th Annual EGSS Conference will be held March 27th in the Education Building. This is a student-led initiative organized by the Education Graduate Students Society, within the Faculty of Education at McGill University. This year’s conference theme is: “Theory and Action: Learning in the Modern World.” The aim of this conference is to provide all graduate students within the Faculty of Education opportunities to promote the importance of their research, to enhance their professional academic skills (e.g., integrating research, preparing presentations, facilitating discussions), and to engage with a community of motivated learners comprised of other students, researchers and educators. The goal of this year’s conference is to diversify the definition of “education” by integrating all of our various perspectives to broaden our current, collective understanding. From political interests to mental health, from second language learning to nutrition and athletics, and from cross-cultural issues to technology development, there are unique issues within each educational field in the modern world, yet they are all connected by a shared foundation in learning. Please visit our website to learn more about this year’s conference theme: http://www.egssconference20182019.wordpress.com.
We invite presentations of completed research studies, works-in-progress, notes from the field, undergraduate, master’s and PhD proposals, unique literature reviews, alternative presentations, and theoretical discussions, written in either English or French (in APA style). We welcome submissions from students and researchers across departments at McGill University, as well as those from other universities and research programs. We request that submissions be relevant to some aspect of the conference theme, or can be applied to research or practice in education more broadly.
General Submission Guidelines:
-All submission types are to be a maximum of 250 words in length.
-Abstracts may be written in English or French, and formatted in APA style.
-You may be a presenting author for one presentation only (of any type). There is no limit on co-authorships.
-Preliminary and completed research projects are eligible. (Originality is not required)
-When using abbreviations and symbols, define each one when used for the first time.
-Tables, figures or pictures are not accepted nor necessary for abstract submission.
-A short 50-word synopsis of abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.
Submission Types:
-Individual Oral Presentation: 10-minute presentation of current research
-Poster Presentation: 90-minute poster presentation
-FAST5: Oral presentation of research in 5 minutes!
-Other Format: e.g. panel, symposium, poetry, theater performance, exhibition, etc. on a unified topic related to this year’s conference theme for 30 minutes or less
For Posters, Oral Presentations, and FAST5 abstract submissions, please include:
– Purpose, Perspective(s) or theoretical framework,
– Educational importance of the study
– Methodology
– Results/conclusions (if applicable)
*Note: For the Individual Oral Presentation, studies with preliminary results may be prioritized over proposed study submissions*
For Other Formats abstract submissions should include:
– Objectives of the session
– Overview/Structure of the presentation
– Significance of the presented evidence
– Time required (e.g. 20 minutes)
– All authors are presenters
For information on specific submission requirements for each format please visit our website at http://www.egssconference20182019.wordpress.com
Questions regarding the submissions process can be directed to the Submission Coordinators at egss.submissions@gmail.com
Deadline: Friday February 1st, 2019 @ 5PM EST
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