[Commlist] CFP: International Teaching Forum - Innovative teaching pedagogies, interculturality and transversal skills

CALL FOR PAPERS
*INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 4 th International Teaching Forum *
*"INNOVATIVE TEACHING PEDAGOGIES, INTERCULTURALITY AND TRANSVERSAL SKILLS"*

*Université Clermont Auvergne (FRANCE)*
Communication et Sociétés (EA 4647) & Clermont Recherche en Management 
(CleRMa, EA 3849)
*In association with Shanghai Normal University (CHINA), Utah Valley 
University (UNITED STATES)*

*Thursday 14th and Friday 15th November, 2019, Clermont-Ferrand (FRANCE)*

According to the OECD, the internationalization of higher education has 
accelerated over the p past fifteen years. With nearly 4.6 million 
international students in 2015, higher education institutions place the 
mobility of students at the centre of their methodologies. Most often 
student mobility takes the form of semesters and internships abroad as 
immersion in intercultural environments appears to facilitate the 
development of academic and non-academic skills. Numerous studies have 
shown the relevance of this type of educational experience (Ballatore 
2006, Teichler and Janson 2007, Brandenburg 2014, Tarrant et al 2014, 
Potts 2015). Abroad, the student engages socially and academically with 
a culturally different environment, which leads to experimentation and 
related opportunities to develop multiple transversal skills. This 
encompasses the development of a set of attitudes and behaviors 
associated with individual skills, namely relational skills (ability to 
communicate, but also personal qualities/attitudes such as enthusiasm), 
organizational skills (the capacity to envisage solutions beyond the 
scope of personal reach), the aptitude to manage emotions and empathy, 
the building-up of complex attitudes (responsibility, open mindedness, 
adaptability, tolerance, self-confidence, desire to learn) and even 
aesthetic skills which involve cultivating satisfactory images in 
coherence with those – put forward by the organization (Bailly and Léné, 
2015, p.71). All these are generally known as intercultural skills.
However, mobility experiences abroad are not the only opportunities for 
students to engage with intercultural environments. Pedagogies can be 
equally effective in promoting internationalization of education. This 
is the case when international students work with local students on 
various projects, or when visiting professors from abroad introduce 
students to pedagogical approaches with which students are unaccustomed, 
or when two teachers set up, in two different countries, a project 
within which students must interact via information and communication 
technologies. In short, a multitude of pedagogical practices exist that 
can potentially provide all students with intercultural experiences. 
This 4th International Teaching Forum will focus on these methodologies 
in order to identify them, to examine the skills they aim at fostering 
and to evaluate mechanisms used to measure their acquisition. In line 
with the previous three conferences (two were held at Shanghai Normal 
University in China in 2016 and 2017 and one at Utah Valley University 
in the United States in 2018), the overall objective of the 4th 
International Teaching Forum will be to address innovative pedagogical 
practices in higher education in different countries. Over two days, 
teachers and researchers together will work on issues related to the 
contributions and limits of innovative teaching practices, based on 
experiments conducted more particularly (but not exclusively) in the 
field of communication and management.

For this edition, the theme of pedagogical innovation will be addressed 
from the perspective of interculturality and skills. Papers will discuss 
how teaching pedagogies have fostered the creation of a context 
favorable to interculturality and facilitated the acquisition of 
transversal skills.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- How pedagogical practices promote the creation of an intercultural context
- What contribution information and communication technologies make to 
pedagogical innovations in intercultural situations
- What skills are developed by students (local and / or international) 
in the context of intercultural learning
- What assessment mechanisms are put in place to evaluate the 
acquisition of skills
- What skills are acquired by teachers in such intercultural contexts
- What mode of communication is developed between teachers and students 
acting in a culturally different environment
- What role intercultural communication plays in these pedagogical 
practices.

The Forum aims to:
- publish the proceedings on the conference website;
- publish selected articles (finalized following the conference) in two 
journals (one in Information and Communication Sciences and the other in 
Management Sciences);
- publish a volume on Innovative Pedagogical Practices and Interculturality.
*The main language of the conference will be English, but papers may be 
presented in French.*

Dates and place of the conference
*The conference will take place on Thursday November 14th and Friday 
November 15th, 2019, at Université Clermont Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand, 
France). *
The first day of the Teaching Forum will be centred on the presentation 
of selected papers. The second day will be organized in the form of 
round tables to promote the exchange of good practice and the 
constitution of workshops that can continue to collaborate after the 
conference. The round tables will be based on the thematics which emerge 
from the papers presented.

Submission guidelines
*Please submit full proposals (1800-2000 words) in English or French by 
May 15th, 2019.*
Each proposal should include (1) a title, (2) 4 to 5 keywords, (3) an 
abstract of 1500 words maximum (approximately 10,000 characters)
The abstract should clarify the pedagogical practice under discussion, 
how it promotes interculturality in the classroom, the type of skills 
targeted by this practice and / or the evaluation mechanism put in place 
to measure them. Clear bibliographical references are required. 
Completed papers (between 30 000 and 40 000 characters, including 
spaces) will need to be submitted according to guidelines accompanying 
the notification of acceptance. Anonymous peer review and requested 
modifications will follow.
Please submit your abstracts and completed papers (English or French) 
online here: https://teaching-forum4.sciencesconf.org

Contact: (teaching-forum4 /at/ sciencesconf.org), (cecilia.brassier /at/ uca.fr) 
<mailto:(cecilia.brassier /at/ uca.fr)>
Conference Website: https://teaching-forum4.sciencesconf.org 
<https://teaching-forum4.sciencesconf.org>

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