The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) announces requests for research reports for Teacher Education Yearbook XVIII: Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds: The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators. The Yearbook, a peer-reviewed journal, is scheduled for distribution in February 2010. The conceptual framework of the Yearbook is based on a triadic definition of scholarship: the production of knowledge, the interpretation and synthesis of knowledge, and the application of knowledge. Each year, research reports based on a significant topic of interest to ATE members are solicited for publication in the Yearbook. All research reports are blind reviewed and selected papers are published as chapters. A responder may react to the papers chosen for publication. The responder synthesizes, interprets, and applies results drawn from the selected research papers. Both authors and responders are invited to present their scholarly work at the 2010 ATE conference at a Teacher Education Yearbook research report session.

Topic of Yearbook XVIII

It is the intent of Yearbook XVIII to provide educators, policy makers and community members with research-based knowledge concerning how teachers and teacher educators cultivate curious and creative minds within school, teacher education, and professional development settings. It is anticipated that chapters would cover a broad range of topics and would include work with special needs, diverse, and underserved populations of students, teachers, and teacher candidates. The importance of developing curious and creative minds has existed in the field of education for close to a century. Yet, the idea has never been fully embraced or enacted in ways that would fuel large-scale educational and societal change. Hence, the XVIII issue of the Yearbook will address such matters as 1) What practices and strategies spur the development of curious and creative minds? 2) What does curious and creative teaching, learning, and assessment look like? 3) What educational and societal purposes do curious and creative teaching and learning serve? 4) What is the relationship between teachers’ and teacher educators’ professional development and the teaching and learning opportunities they afford students, teachers, and teacher candidates? 5) How does curious and creative teaching and learning rub against current practices in schools and teacher education settings? 6) What policies, perspectives, and procedures would need to be in place to support the development of curious and creative minds in schools and other institutions of learning?

To address these questions and many others, the research papers submitted may be definitional, theoretical, conceptual, reflective, and/or field-based (situated in the schools/ teacher education programs/other teacher learning settings). Central to the manuscripts will be the implications of the assembled research, the potential influence it could have on practice, theory, and in the policy arena, and how particular perspectives, strategies, and approaches could lead to fruitful educational and societal change.

Research Paper Format

Submissions must be completed papers (not previously published) and must not exceed 25 pages (including references and appendices, double spaced, Times Roman, 12 pt). Editors request that pages be numbered. Tables and figures should be placed at the end of the text. Authors should follow APA fifth edition guidelines.

Include the following in your submission:

1.  Cover page: title of paper, author(s), institution(s), mailing address, e-mail, phone number and fax of first author.
2.  Author(s) biographical sketch (50 words).  Include your name, title, department, institution, and a brief description of your current research interests and publications.
3. One copy of abstract (150 words) and paper.
4. One self-addressed stamped envelope.
5. An electronic version of the requested information (on CD or via email, MS Word preferred) in three separate files: (a) cover page, (b) biographical sketch, (c) abstract and paper.

Submit materials to:

Cheryl J. Craig, Co-Editor
Teacher Education Yearbook XVIII
304E Farish Hall
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5027

Telephone: (713) 743-3312
Email Address: ccraig@uh.edu

PAPERS MUST BE RECEIVED BY DECEMBER 1, 2008.