Ninth International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Call for Proposals

The Experiential Learning Service of the University of Ottawa and the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement are proud to invite you to the Ninth International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. The conference will be held October 9-12, 2009, at the Westin Ottawa Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

The theme of the conference is Research for What? Making Inquiry Matter. While papers and posters on all aspects of research on service-learning and community engagement are welcome, the conference organizers are particularly interested in receiving proposals that address the goals underlying research, the most effective means of achieving them, and the implications of such goals for society; communities and community-based organizations, schools, colleges, universities, faculty, students, and scholarship. Is the research meant to transform academe? Deepen student learning? Improve community life, particularly for its more marginalized members and groups? Encourage engaged citizenship, participatory democracy, community mobilization, and/or social justice? What models or approaches are most effective? From an academic standpoint, does the research indicate that service-learning and community engagement are too often ideologically or advocacy-driven?

Conference information and the Call for Proposals are available online at http://www.researchslce.org/Files/2009Conference/Conference_Main.html. To be considered, all proposals must be received via electronic submission by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) Friday, March 6, 2009. Incomplete proposal submissions will not be reviewed. All proposals will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by April 30, 2009.