Registration to the conference in now open. Please register before May 1st using the on-line form here: https://forms.gle/CLDyb3S4jMwypMUr8

Call for papers

Recent population changes around the world have altered society’s needs, and therefore educational needs with classrooms worldwide becoming increasingly diverse. In the U.S., the proportion of students with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds in many urban and rural areas exceeded 60% of the total student population. In Europe, who has probably being facing the biggest change of population during the last five years with the recent immigration and migration waves from Syria and Africa, the percentages are even higher. The available data suggests that, the recent and continuous influx of refugees and asylum seekers in EU States is likely to further increase the diversity of the learner population in European classrooms in the near future (EU 2016). These recent changes mean that classrooms consist of students from different cultures, using different languages, that often lack a common language or common communication code (EU 2016; Meyer & Crawford 2011). The aforementioned, results in the need to think of ways to support students and teachers in the classroom.

The conference “Teaching Science and Mathematics in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Settings” aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from around the world to discuss issues pertaining to the role of language and cultural in STEM. The conference is organized by the Department of Education at the University of Nicosia as part of the IncluSMe project (https://inclusme-project.eu).

Conference session formats:

· Oral Presentations: this format allows for 20 minute presentations followed by questions and discussion. For the oral presentation you need to submit an extended abstract (500 words) including the title, and references. The extended abstract should be anonymous.

• Group of papers: if you want to present your paper as part of a group of papers please submit each paper separately as an oral presentation, and indicate in the on-line submission the title of the papers that you would like to group your paper with.

· Posters: The poster sessions allows researchers to present their work in a visual format and interact with participants. For the poster presentation you need to submit an extended abstract (500 words) including the title, and references. The extended abstract should be anonymous.

· Workshops: this format allows presenters to display a teaching tool, teaching sequences or pedagogical approaches relevant to the topic of the conference. Workshops are scheduled for 90 minutes. An extended abstract (500 words) including the title, and references should be submitted for this format. The extended abstract should be anonymous.

Review Criteria

· Importance of the study for research and/or practice

· Theoretical framework

· Aims and research question

· Research method and design

· Findings and coherence of argument

· Discussion and implications

Submission process:

1. The deadline for submitting the extended abstracts (500 words) is January 31st 2019. The abstracts will be submitted online to: https://goo.gl/forms/Q0XYAB3HSUMPLZio2

2. The extended abstracts should be written in English.

3. The extended abstracts will be evaluated by two reviewers and the authors will be notified by the end of February about the outcomes.

Please contact Maria Evagorou at evagorou.m@unic.ac.cy for questions and problems related to the submission.