Call for Abstracts
AATE/ALEA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024
Your next chapter awaits with possibility, aplenty
Abstract Key Dates for Submission:
Call for Abstracts: Closed
Abstract Author Notification: Expected mid April 2024
Author Registration Deadline: Close of Earlybird Registration
Conference Dates: 10 - 13 July 2024
Abstract submissions are invited for the following:
The 2024 AATE/ALEA National Conference invites educators from early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary contexts to submit an abstract for one (or more) of the session types at the conference.
Four presentation types are available for you to select from for this conference:
- Presentation – Research paper or Practice (Choose 20 or 40 minutes)
- Workshop – 50 minutes (Abstract should include an explanation of how the workshop will be interactive)
- Lightning Talks – 10 minutes
- Symposium – Each symposium should consist of a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of four (4) individual papers. The symposium proposer should identify a chair and a discussant for the session (50 minutes or 100 minutes).
Session Type Elaborations
- Presentation: In-person Presentation (20 minutes or 40 minutes including questions) about a teaching approach, strategy, innovative idea and/or research.
- Workshop: In-person (50 minutes) interactive session where presenter/s facilitate activities that explore a teaching approach, strategy and/or innovative idea. (NOTE: Workshops will not be recorded)
- Lightning Talks: In-person 10 minute talks where presenters share a teaching approach, strategy, innovative idea and/or research. Presenters are encouraged to use a maximum of five slides. In a lightning talk session, three talks will be presented. Presenters are timed and must stick to the 10 minute limit.
- Symposium: Each symposium should consist of a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of four (4) individual papers. The symposium proposer should identify a chair and a discussant for the session (50 minutes or 100 minutes).
Conference Theme:
Your next chapter awaits with possibility, aplenty.
Inspired by Kirli Saunder’s poem, our National Conference theme looks towards the future with hope and optimism. Since the last National Conference in Adelaide, the world has undergone enormous change. We see a world imbued with anxiety and we struggle to remember when educators were more stressed. Yet, it is precisely within this context that we see a world brimming with possibility, aplenty.
New Chapter – Kirli Saunders
Cut ties
And free fall
Into this new book smell -
Your next chapter awaits
With possibility, aplenty
In this taintless space,
You are the cultivator,
The artist
The narrator.
With heart and
Mind alight go
Forth, and
Create.
It is within these contexts and possibilities that the following chapters (sub-themes) are presented:
Possibilities: Innovative ways of interacting with the world.
Narratives: Multiple and interwoven ways of knowing the world.
Cultivations: Past, present, and future ways of creating the world.
Abstract Submission Instructions:
Please submit a maximum 250 word abstract of your proposed session that aligns with one of the conference themes. Your abstract should focus on the core content of the proposed session and clearly align with your chosen theme.
Please read through the submission instructions listed below before preparing your abstract:
Step 1: Write your abstract following the Abstract Requirements and Guidelines.
Step 2: Click on the below SUBMIT HERE button to complete the Abstract Submission and follow the prompts.
Who submits the abstract?
The Presenting Author must submit the abstract and will act as the main point of contact for the abstract with organisers.
Once you enter the online submission portal, start by creating an account. Upon successful submission of the abstract a confirmation email will be sent to the Presenting Author.
If you have not received a confirmation email, please check that your abstract is not left in draft and is fully submitted by logging back into the portal and checking on the Edit/View Abstracts page.
How to Edit a Submitted Abstract?
You can save your submission as a draft and return to edit the submission at a later point. It is important to note that once it has been submitted the abstract cannot be edited after the abstract submission deadline. Ensure that your abstract is not left in draft as it will not be reviewed.
Authors will be notified of their abstract submission status on: date to be advised 2024.
Presentation Format:
The Conference Committees reserve the right to decide the format of presentation on the basis of time and space available.
Abstract Submission Terms & Conditions
By submitting an abstract, you agree to the following:
- At least one author will register to attend and present at the Conference.
- All authors whose abstracts have been accepted and who are presenting at the Conference are responsible for all costs including registration, travel, accommodation, any costs associated with preparation and/or presentation of the abstract, or any other costs associated with attendance at the Conference.
- All authors whose abstracts have been accepted and are presenting, must register for the Conference by the close of earlybird registration.
- If your abstract submission is accepted, you give AATE/ALEA permission to publish your abstract and related presentation materials on the Conference website and in the Conference Program.
- You confirm that the abstract submission has been approved by all authors.
- The number of abstract submissions is not limited.