Calls for Papers
Dear Environmental Educators
We warmly invite you to submit your abstract to the 5th World Environmental Education Congress to be held at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal from May 10 to 14, 2009.
The 5th World Congress will draw a large attendance, potentially becoming one of the field's most significant gatherings on environmental education. The mobilization of support behind the organization of this Congress is further evidence of the tremendous enthusiasm at play.
Your proposal must be submitted online. Thematic niches are:
1. Relationships between ecology and economy: the issue of sustainability
2. Questions of fairness in socio-ecological issues
3. Environmental health
4. Urban challenges
5. Ecologizing colleges and universities
6. School and community
7. Learning in society
8. Heritage interpretation
9. Indigenous knowledge and practices
10. Ethics, environmental thought, and worldviews
11. Art: imagination, creativity, and meaning
12. Ecological identity
More information about these themes can be found at: http://www.5weec.uqam.ca/EN/presentation_themes.asp
Types of presentations are: oral presentation, poster presentation, roundtable presentation, workshop, NGO/NPO forum. Detailed instructions are available at the Congress site: http://www.5weec.uqam.ca/APPEL/index.asp under "Calls for Papers."
The submission deadline is September 30, 2008. However, we encourage early submissions.
For more information on the Congress or your trip to Montreal, please visit the Congress site: www.5weec.uqam.ca. Further details will be added to in the coming months.
We look forward to seeing you in Montreal!
Bob Jickling and Lucie Sauvé
Co-Chairs
5WEEC 2009
5th World Environmental Education Congress
Congress Secretariat - JPdL
1555 Peel Street, Suite 500
Montreal, QC H3A 3L8
Canada
Tel: +1 514-287-1070
Fax: +1 514-287-1248
