Deadline for submission is 1 March 2023
Promotion flyer (pdf)
Research focus
The fourth and upcoming QUINT Conference “Teaching Quality & Teacher-Researcher
Collaboration: Opportunities, Obstacles & Orientations” aims to bring together early career researchers and the world-leading scholars to explore ways to strengthen teacher-researcher collaboration within the area of teaching quality relevant to improve teacher education and teachers’ continuous learning. With the goal of improving teaching quality, high quality teacher education and professional development is decisive.
Research on how to improve teaching – both in teacher education and through professional development – is increasingly agreeing on some quality indicators for programme design and pedagogies for teacher learning. However, the field has also been described as sprawling and contested, constituting different theoretical and methodological lenses, and focusing on teacher education and teachers’ professional development from within or from the outside. The lack of a common conceptual language within the field is steadily pointed to, as well as the lack of longitudinal and large-scale studies in the field. This conference in Helsinki seeks to summarise how contemporary discussions on teaching quality are recognised and made relevant for teachers and teacher candidates.
Questions to discuss:
- The role of observation manuals in teacher learning and teacher education
- Teacher observation and teacher feedback
- Videos and other representations from classrooms
- Good versus "effective" teaching
In this fourth QUINT conference, we address all of the above issues. We welcome papers on a broad variety of issues related to teaching quality, especially targeting (implications for) teacher education, teachers’ professional development and teacher researcher collaboration. Scholars within the QUINT centre have worked targeted on systematic use of videos of teaching as a pedagogy in teacher education and professional development, and we thus especially welcome papers targeting these issues.
Keynote speakers
Professor and Director Rossella Santagata, Center for Research on Teacher Development and Professional Practice, School of Education, University of California, Irvine
- Professor Robert Coe, Director of Research and Development, Evidence Based Education
Associate Professor Sarah Schneider Kavanagh, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania | UP · Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Division
Structure
The conference has the format where the two first days are devoted to the keynotes and PhD presentations (QIUNT PhD Summer Institute), followed by the general conference with keynote sessions, parallel paper sessions, workshops, panel debates, and other academic events.
- PhD Summer Institute (30-31 May): paper sessions dedicated to PhD Fellows
- QUINT Conference (1-2 June): general conference with paper sessions, keynote presentations, panel debates and workshops
Paper sessions are oral presentations, followed by a discussion with the audience. The time allowed for each paper, including the presentation and discussion, is 20-30 minutes.
Symposia submissions are welcome: 4 papers per symposia, suggest a discussant. One submission per symposium.
Abstract submission guidelines
Abstract submission should detail the aims, methodology, findings and theoretical and educational significance of this research.
- Individual papers: Fill out the online application form (Link to the application form)
Symposium: Fill out the online application form (Link to the application form) - Upload an abstract (300 words max) and an extended summary (max 1000 words, excluding references) as part of the application process.
Template for abstract and extended summary (Word Template)
Deadline: 1 March 2023
Assessment criteria
Abstracts will be reviewed by the experts from the QUINT Management Group (Link to bios).
Review criteria:
- Aims
- Methodology
- Findings (final or preliminary)
- Theoretical and educational significance
- Relevance to the QUINT ambition (priority)
Timeline
- Deadline for abstract submission: Wednesday 1 March 2023
- Letter of acceptance including stipend: by middle of April
- Arrival date: 29 May
- Departure date: 2 June
Practical
QUINT PhD Summer Institute and QUINT Conference 2023 takes place 30 May - 2 June 2023 in Hanaholmen, Helsinki, Finland.
The QUINT researchers are welcome to attend all days.
- QUINT researchers: QUINT finances travel, accommodation costs, and the conference fee for the QUINT researchers.
- For the PhD Fellows (also outside the QUINT network), we offer a stipend that covers travel (economy class), accommodation (Monday-Friday), meals at the conference and the conference fee. Financial support upon abstract acceptance and application. Full information (Website)
- Other conference attendees (outside QUINT) are welcome to attend and
are required to pay a conference fee to cover meals at the conference, accommodation is not included in the conference fee.- 4 days (all days) – 3200 NOK
- 2 days (General conference 1-2 June) – 2000 NOK
Accommodation and travel bookings
QUINT Administration will book flights and accommodation for PhD Fellows with stipend, keynote speakers, invited guests and presenters, panel debate attendees, and for the QUINT researchers.
For other conference delegates (outside QUINT) we recommend to check availability at the nearby hotels:
- https://www.sokoshotels.fi/sv/om-oss/heymo
- https://finland.ihg.com/hotellit/holiday-inn-helsinki-west-ruoholahti/
- https://www.sokoshotels.fi/sv/esbo/sokos-hotel-tapiola-garden
More practical information will be updated regularly.