Special Issue call for papers for the journal Education and Training

Outlines must be submitted by 30th October 2009.

This call for papers concerns a special issue of Education and Training focused on a critical assessment of all aspects of the developing field of student-community engagement with particular attention to student learning from community engagement. We seek contributions from both academics involved in research within this field and practitioners involved in the development, design, management and delivery of courses or modules concerned with student learning from community engagement. Submissions that report new and innovative practice within student-community engagement will be particularly welcome although no restriction is placed on what we mean by innovation in this context. We wish to encourage submissions from contributors who believe that what they are doing, or have done, is novel and different and/or who are actively involved in researching the contributions of such practice. As appropriate to the nature of the paper, contributions should demonstrate a critical approach to practice and sound a conceptual or evidence base.

We invite anyone interested in contributing to this Special Issue to contact the editors with a statement of intent. This should be a short outline (100-200 words) indicating what the paper is about (including a working title), the nature of the paper (research paper, case study, critical account of practice, development of theory etc) and how it will contribute to our understanding of student learning from community engagement. Please forward this outline (and any queries about the Special Issue) to tom.bourner@ntlworld.com or juliet.millican@brighton.ac.uk.