2021 Biennial Conference
Power and Knowledge: Implications for Our Social World
Conference Program
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Hosted virtually with support from Arizona State University
October 12-14, 2021
We are proud to invite you to join us for the 9th biennial conference of the Scholarly Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education (SCIPIE). SCIPIE conferences traditionally focus on complex problems found at the intersection of education and psychology. A description of the 2021 conference theme, Power and Knowledge: Implications for Our Social World can be found here. All proposals should be submitted to the electronic SCIPIE submission system by midnight on Friday, July 16, 2021.
The conference format will be fully virtual this year and will be spread over four days, rather than SCIPIE’s usual two-day format. This decision was made in order to make the conference a bit more slow-paced, considering people’s other commitments. Although we wish we could meet as a scholarly community in person, safety and financial responsibility are our top priorities. We are working on a conference format that aligns with our interactive conference history and with our commitment to student mentorship.
We are working hard to ensure that the SCIPIE virtual experience meets our community’s high expectations for innovation and interactivity. In addition, we are taking the following steps:
Conference costs will be kept as low as possible in order to enable broad participation.
Scheduling will take into account different times zones and be spread across 4 days to avoid online fatigue.
We are collaborating with instructional designers at Arizona State University and SCIPIE board members experienced at organizing innovative virtual conferences.
Keynote Speakers
Clark Chinn, Ph.D.
Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University
Thomas Teo, Ph.D.
Professor of psychology in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology Program at York University, Toronto, Canada
Conference Structure
The conference will consist of sessions designed to facilitate critical discussion of issues and assumptions related to core constructs and models in educational psychology. We rely on our community of researchers to submit conference presentations that explore important topics related to our theme. SCIPIE offers an opportunity to find new ways to address challenges in research, explore complex problems, and examine the ambiguous space between scholarly rigor and meaningful application. The emphasis is on driving theoretical and methodological innovation through exploration of tensions in educational psychology and related fields. Participants are encouraged to bring works in progress and unresolved research issues as a foundation for session content and discussion.
SCIPIE offers a unique conference experience due to its interactive structure. We place a high premium on interactive conference sessions that promote engaging dialogue and active participation. SCIPIE invites participation through multiple session formats. These formats are divided into two categories 1) collective submission types where groups of researchers propose sessions collaboratively, and 2) individual submission types for graduate and undergraduate students to submit research posters and faculty to submit single papers to be integrated into interactive sessions.
Aligned with our values, SCIPIE invites folks to submit proposals for highly interactive, innovative virtual sessions. The use of interactive digital tools are strongly encouraged. We are working with instructional designers at Arizona State University, as well as members of the SCIPIE board with rich experience hosting online academic events. In keeping with SCIPIE values, we will use different online tools to create interactive sessions that are engaging for conference goers. To benefit from the affordances of synchronous and asynchronous tools, we will be creating different experiences: interactive (synchronous) platforms for roundtable and poster sessions (e.g., Gather.town) to allow for rich and in-time feedback, as well as opportunities for networking; videoconferencing tools to present and attend live sessions; and an asynchronous platform to follow SCIPIE events and communicate and network with other participants.
The conference is also geared specifically to provide early career scholars and graduate students an opportunity for meaningful participation in conference sessions. Each year, we organize a graduate student poster session. Graduate students are paired with a mentor from the field and receive mentoring feedback on works-in-progress or completed research. This year we also welcome undergraduate poster submissions.
Collective Submission Types
Experiential Learning Sessions: We invite researchers to collaboratively propose experiential learning sessions that address critical research areas in educational psychology. Experiential learning sessions include formats such as workshops, demonstrations, and professional development. Researchers are encouraged to collaboratively develop sessions that address difficult problems or unique solutions in educational psychology that call upon audience participation to explore the topic. We encourage researchers to be creative in their thinking about critical issues to address. Each session will last one hour and fifteen minutes. See below for submission instructions. We welcome various types of experiential learning sessions. Examples include:
Methods workshops -Assume an audience of faculty as well as students; these should go beyond an introductory level content, and be specific to the call and spirit of SCIPIE
Data workshopping - Proposals to bring people together who are interested in a specific type of problem around a collected dataset
Parallel sessions run by and for graduate students
White paper sessions - These sessions should be designed to collaboratively work on ideas that are bubbling up; particularly around the conference theme. They might take place during sessions across multiple days; perhaps at a time outside of regularly scheduled sessions. White paper projects are guaranteed acceptance at the 2023 conference!
Interactive Paper Sessions: We invite researchers to collaboratively propose interactive paper sessions that synthesize emergent research in educational psychology. Interactive paper sessions will be composed of collections of research papers that share a common goal, theme, or method. Researchers are encouraged to collaboratively develop sessions that highlight forward thinking work that can promote or inspire meaningful change. We encourage researchers to not only consider ways to group papers, but also to be creative about how to actively involve participation among audience members.
Individual Submission Types
Graduate and Undergraduate Student Posters: We invite graduate students to propose poster presentations for the graduate student poster reception. Graduate students may present research related to their thesis or dissertation, collaborate on new ideas with other graduate students, or present work they have done in collaboration with faculty. The emphasis of the reception is on student work. A student must be first author on the poster. Where appropriate, faculty may be listed as co-authors. We encourage graduate students to highlight potential innovations, showcase complex problems, and explore possible research agendas in their poster submissions. Participants will be matched with a poster mentor as part of the SCIPIE experience. See below for details on poster mentors and submission instructions.
Individual Paper Submissions: We invite researchers who would like to attend the conference but are not a part of a collective submission to submit individual papers for presentation. Individual paper proposals should be led by and submitted by faculty members. Graduate students should submit to the poster session, but may be listed as a coauthor on individual papers). Ideally, individual paper submissions should be fully developed, with data, method, or models in place. The papers should represent innovations in educational psychology that are related to the conference theme. These submissions will be grouped with other similar proposals to create a session. SCIPIE officers will be in charge of grouping paper sessions and working with authors to create interactive sessions related to the emergent themes. See below for details on submission instructions. We are only accepting a limited number of “present your findings” sessions this year. They will be selected carefully based on their ability to foster the theme and enhance the other interactive sessions. All proposals should be submitted to the electronic SCIPIE submission system by midnight on Friday, July 16, 2021.