30.371, Calls: Psycholinguistics/Poland

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Subject: 30.371, Calls: Psycholinguistics/Poland

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 05:01:48
From: Ola Majchrzak [omajchrzak at ahe.lodz.pl]
Subject: Education in the Light of Positive Psychology

 
Full Title: Education in the Light of Positive Psychology 
Short Title: nikej 

Date: 05-Apr-2019 - 06-Apr-2019
Location: Lodz, Poland 
Contact Person: Ola Majchrzak
Meeting Email: nikej at ahe.lodz.pl
Web Site: http://nikej.ahe.lodz.pl 

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The main aim of the conference is to discuss today’s education in the light of
positive psychology. We will be looking at what makes language learning
meaningful and fulfilling. Thus, we would like to invite scholars (in
particular psycholinguists, linguists, psychologists and educationalists),
academics, representatives of educational authorities, school teachers and
practitioners working in the area of education, to give presentations on
positive aspects of psychology that allow both learners and teachers to
flourish.


Education in the light of positive psychology.

Positive psychology, defined as “the empirical study of how people thrive and
flourish”, “the study of the human strengths and virtues that make life good”
(MacIntyre and Mercer, 2014: 154), or “the scientific study of what goes right
in life” (Peterson, 2006), investigates and promotes human well-being (Oxford,
2016: 21) as well as the techniques that can enable living well (MacIntyre,
2016). 

The conference topics will comprise:

- the strengths of teachers and learners as facilitative aspects of teaching /
learning processes
- educational institutions that enable ‘success’, well-being and development
of both teachers and learners
- positive learning climate
- the role of emotions in language learning and teaching
- motivational and attitudinal factors
- teacher and student well-being
- learner engagement
- flow 
- flourishing
- positive psychology activities in the classroom
- Perma, Empathics
- mindfulness in education
- affect in language learning
- caring and sharing in the classroom
- positive institutional policies.

Other related topics will also be taken into consideration. 

Keynote Speakers:
 
The following renowned scholars in the field of positive psychology have
confirmed their participation in the conference:

Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at
Birkbeck, University of London. His research interests include individual
differences in multilingualism and emotion and he is President of the
International Association of Multilingualism.

Danuta Gabryś-Barker is Professor of English at the University of Silesia,
Katowice, Poland. Her main areas of interest are multilingualism and applied
psycholinguistics.  As a teacher trainer she lectures on research methods in
second/multiple language acquisition and TEFL projects. 

Peter D. MacIntyre is Professor of psychology at Cape Breton University. His
research examines emotion, motivation and cognition across a variety of types
of behaviour, including interpersonal communication, public speaking and
learning. The majority of his research examines the psychology of
communication, with a particular emphasis on second language acquisition and
communication.

Abstracts:

Please send an abstract of your presentation:

- regular paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
- poster

in Polish or English to: nikej at ahe.lodz.pl by 10 February 2019.

The abstract should be between 200 and 250 words long and should include the
title of the article, the first name and surname of the participant, e-mail
address and affiliation. These details should be provided in the attached
registration form.

All proposals are subject to a review process and prospective participants
will be informed by e-mail if their proposal has been accepted by 17 February
2019.

Publication:

Selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the conference will be published by
an academic press (i.e. Springer) at the end of 2019.
Publication details will be sent to the participants together with the
abstract approval in February. 
The deadline for sending completed articles is 6 of May 2019.




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