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Kaleidoscope 2022

Kaleidoscope is an annual two-day conference hosted by research students at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

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Kaleidoscope 2022

The Power of Storytelling in Education: Perspectives and Positionality

19th Annual Kaleidoscope Conference at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Online | 26 - 27 May 2022

Registration now open

With another year of interrupted returns and prolonged waves of uncertainty in all learning experiences and ongoing crucial debates happening globally about the state of the world, injustice, racism, climate change and environmental crisis, capitalism, and the overall questioning of political systems, the world seems to struggle in an attempt to grasp the new normal and its implications for the foreseeable future. Though we are currently physically separated, educators and researchers are invited to bridge this distance through reflecting authentically on the state of teaching, learning, knowledge, and justice through storytelling. Challenging the limitations set upon educational theories and practices, we aim to bring into discussion innovative pedagogies taking into consideration previously overshadowed methodologies.

Thus, we invite you to join us online on the 26th & 27th of May 2022 for the 19th Kaleidoscope Conference at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. This time of change is an opportunity for reflection and response. Through this conference, we hope to create a diverse and uniquely situated community of peers and colleagues, to think together and to learn from each other, to evaluate and to (re)imagine.

Theme: The Power of Storytelling in Education: Perspectives and Positionality

This year’s conference theme is The Power of Storytelling in Education: Perspectives and Positionality. We welcome submissions representing inter-, multi-, and trans- disciplinary projects, empirical and non-empirical, finished, and unfinished. We look forward to learning from your theoretical and methodological advances, as well as original contributions to practice and/or pedagogy.

To better guide the flow of our thinking and conversations, we hope to host discussions on the following sub-themes:

  • Constructing Place and Identity: Storytelling and Communities
  • Urban Periphery: Stories of Global Movement
  • Setting the Agenda: Challenging Global Narratives in Education
  • Curriculum of Story in Practice
  • Artisanal Knowledges from around the World
  • Moving towards Cognitive Justice through Reconstructing Truths
  • Power of Oral Storytelling in Community Building
  • Peace and Conflict Resolution through Education
  • Liminal Spaces in Education
  • Envisioning Alternative Tomorrows
  • Language, Race and Gender in Storytelling

Call for abstracts

Please submit an abstract of maximum 250 words here by the Thursday 10 March 2022. Choose a sub-theme to submit your abstract to. You can choose one of the following formats for your contribution:

15-minute presentation

This can be a general overview of your work or can focus in detail on one or two aspects of it. If the latter, you could address one or two of the following: results and conclusions, methodological processes or innovations, contributions to your field, theoretical developments and original theories, or pedagogical/practice advances - depending on the type of your work and what stage you are at. Such a presentation should develop an argument or a central thread that is elaborated throughout the presentation. Avoid jargon: communicate key ideas so that they are understandable to someone who does not know your field. Focus on the big ideas and the contribution your work makes, rather than on details. You could use the conclusion to draw questions/directions for future research and/or practice. The presentation should have an introduction and conclusion, and be linked to the conference theme or, at least, with one of the sub-themes. You can choose to use a slideshow or not. Where appropriate, presentations will be organised in panels.

5-minute presentation

This can be a short overview of your work or can focus in more detail on one aspect of it. It could also be a provocation for the audience and does not need to present a fully-developed argument. The key is keeping the presentation brief and clear: focus on key ideas rather than details. Avoid jargon: use language and visual illustrations that are accessible to participants of any background, including those who may not be familiar with your field. The presentation should be clearly linked to the conference theme or, at least, with one of the sub-themes. You can choose to use a slideshow or not. Where appropriate, presentations will be organised in panels.

Poster

Posters will be displayed in an online gallery. They should be easily read as images rather than as text documents but maintain an academic standard. They should represent a brief, visual summary of your work or a part of your work. Feel free to include images, graphics, diagrams etc. Your poster should be clearly linked to the conference theme or, at least, with one of the sub-themes.

Please submit your abstract by 10 March using this submission form.

Key dates

Submission deadline
10 March 2022
Notification of acceptance
TBC
Registration opens Now Open

Conference Venue

The conference will be held online.

Registration

Registration for Kaleidoscope 2022 now open to the public.

Get in Touch

Email: kaleidoscope@educ.cam.ac.uk
Twitter: @CambridgeKScope
Facebook: @KaleidoscopeConference2022
Instagram: @KaleidoscopeCon
Website: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/events/conferences/kaleidoscope2022/