Changing Geography in Higher Education: Toward a Scholarship of Academic

The International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher  Education (INLT) invites your participation in a workshop exploring  strategies for securing geography’s long-term growth and vitality in  higher education systems worldwide. Participants will engage in  forward-looking dialogue on topics such as:

·        Bringing about change in undergraduate and graduate curricula

·        Strengthening the leadership capacity of departments

·        Promoting synergistic activities with other disciplines

·        Engaging geographers in public policymaking

·        Developing students for geographical careers in business, government, and non-profit organizations and much more.

In the months preceding the workshop, participants will be organized into  working groups of 4-6 members and begin preparing a collaborative  manuscript addressing one of the workshop’s featured topics. Early drafts  of the manuscripts will be posted in an online community forum for review  and discussion prior to and during the workshop. Manuscripts will  ultimately be submitted for possible publication in a special issue of the  Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

The 2010 INLT workshop is being sponsored by the U.K. Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), the AAG’s Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education (EDGE) project, Taylor & Francis, and the Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Dates: April 12-13, 2010

Location: Washington, D.C.

Venue: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

Fee: USD 150 (waived for graduate student participants)

Audience: Geographers in academic and administrative positions; graduate

Important Dates:

Registration deadline: August 1, 2009

Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2009

Payment due: December 31, 2009

Draft manuscripts due: January 15, 2010

Online community discussion: February-March 2010

Opening night reception/dinner: Sunday, April 11, 2010

Final manuscripts due: August 1, 2010

Organizers: Michael Solem (AAG and INLT co-chair) is serving as the principal organizer for the 2010 INLT workshop with Mick Healey (University of Gloucestershire and INLT Co-Chair) and Eric Pawson (University of Canterbury and INLT Co-Chair) as co-organizers.

For further details please see the INLT web site: www.geog.canterbury.ac.nz/inlt/.

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