Proposal Deadline: March 10, 2012. Proposals should not exceed 500 words, and should be submi tted as an email attachment to the justec office no later than March 10th, 2012. Please write “JUSTEC 2012: Proposal” in the subject and type the pres enter(s): Name, Title, Institutional Affiliation, and email address in the body of your mail. Selection of proposals for the Conference will be made b y the JUSTEC Planning Committee no later than March 23rd, 2012. Decisions o f this committee are final.
Abstract Deadline: May 1 5th, 2012. If your proposal is accepted, you will be expected to submit a o ne page abstract (the Format will be sent to the selected presenters) for p ublication in a program bulletin no later than May 15th, 2012. Please write “JUSTEC 2012: Abstract” in the subject. It should be submitted as an email attachment in Word file.
As you may have known, JUSTEC is an unique educational organization that supports its participants in pursuing not onl y academic success but also professional networks, for growth in both resea rch and teaching practice. In this spirit, JUSTEC asks participants to part icipate in all aspects of the conference program as much as possible. For t he 2012 Conference, long distance travelers are expected to arrive before F riday, July 6th and leave after Monday July 9, 2012. We look forward to see ing you, and thank you very much for your understanding.
Abou t JUSTEC: The Japan-U.S. Teacher Education Consortium (JUSTEC) was established in the late 1980s by several deans of education at universitie s in the United States and in Japan in the interest of fostering joint rese arch efforts into teacher education issues of mutual interest in both count ries. The organization was established under the aegis of AACTE (American A ssociation of Colleges for Teacher Education) and, though it has evolved fr om being dean-centered to being faculty/researcher-centered over the years, JUSTEC has continued to hold annual conferences of teacher education profe ssionals in alternate locations in the U.S. and Japan.
The objectives of JUSTEC are: