Call for Proposals

Second Annual TA’ALIM Conference

Intersections of the Global and Local in Education in the Middle East

Thursday, April 18th 2013, 9am to 12pm 

179 Grace Dodge Hall (GDH) at Teachers College

The Association for the Advancement of Learning Issues in the Middle East (TA’ALIM), a student society at Teachers College (TC) that focuses on education in the Middle East and the larger Muslim World, is seeking graduate students to participate in its Middle East Student Research Dialogue component of its second annual conference. This component will consist of two video-conferencing sessions that will offer a unique opportunity for students to exchange research and ideas with students engaged in similar work at the American University of Cairo (AUC) and Notre Dame University in Beirut, Lebanon.

TA’ALIM invites graduate students at Teachers College, related schools/departments at Columbia University schools, and other education institutions, to submit abstracts employing either theoretical or empirical approaches to the study of education, from a range of disciplines and perspectives.

The Proposal Review Board is now accepting submissions until Friday April 5th, 2013 by 5pm EST. Please send submissions or any questions to tctaalim@gmail.com.

Proposals should include the following three components:

• A title of no more than 50 characters

• An abstract of up to 150 words (please note: presentations will be 15 minutes each)

• Your basic information (name, program, year in program, school affiliation, contact

number)