Ministry of Education of Belarus

Mozyr State Pedagogical University named after I.P. Shamyakin

International conference

“Ethnopedagogy: History and Modernity”

October 17-18, 2013

Call for papers

We are pleased to announce the International conference “Ethnopedagogy: History

and Modernity” that will take place at Mozyr State Pedagogical University named
after I.P. Shamyakin on October 17-18, 2013.

Topic suggestions:

 ethnopedagogy and its methodology;

 ethnopedagogy and religion;
 ethnopedagogy and ethnopsychology;
 ethnodidactics;
 educational potential of folk art;
 reflecting the traditions of public education in literature;
 usage of ethnopedagogic ideas in modernity;
 ethno-cultural education and the challenges of globalization;
 various (materials in other areas, relevant to the subject of the conference are
accepted).

The hosts of the conference will conduct master classes and organize visiting the
creative sites of the University.

Conference format involves scientists from the CIS, the Baltic countries, Poland,
Bulgary, etc.

Conference working languages are Russian, Belorusian, Ukrainian, English.

Editorial board reserves the right to select the reports. The reports, peer-reviewed,
will be published as collected scientific articles in the author's edition. A book of
conference presentations is planned for publication before the conference. The
collection of articles will be assigned ISBN, UDC and the number according to
Bibliographic classification.
The deadline for sending the reports is 31/05/2013. Proposals for reports should
include: a) the application form (can be found at the end of this call for papers)
b) the abstract both printed and on electronic media, the author’s name
should coincide with the title of the file.

Guidelines to the presentation texts:

Up to 5 pages, MSWord for Windows; Interval – 1; Font 12, Times New Roman;
All fields – 25 mm; Width alignment; Paragraph indent – 12,5 mm.
Bibliography in the body is mentioned in order of appearance, in square brackets
(comma indicates the number of the page, e.g. [1, 23]).

The text should include:

 the author’s name, institution, city/town, country as stated in the sample;
 the title of the report, typed in bold capital letters with center alignment;
 the text of the body is typed on the next line;
 bibliography is typed with paragraph indent (Font 10).

Sample
Ivan I. Ivanov
Mozyr State Pedagogical University
named after I.P. Shamyakin
Mozyr, Belarus

MORAL IDEAL OF ETHNIC BELARUSIAN PEDAGOGY

The body of the report.

Bibliography
1.

For further details on the International conference “Ethnopedagogy: History and

Modernity” visit www.mspu.by (Section: Conferences)

The conference fee (approximately $5) planned for publication of the collected
scientific articles will be stated in personal invitations.

Travel, accommodation and food are covered by the participants.

A special issue of the scientific journal “MSPU Bulletin”, covering the topic of
the conference, is planned for publication before the conference. The journal is
included into Higher Attestation Commission list of publications.

We invite people concerned to submit the articles for publication in the journal.
The deadline is May 1, 2013. For guidelines to the presentation of the articles visit
www.mspu.by (Section: Publishing Activities/ Scientific Journal “MSPU
Bulletin”/ Guidelines to authors).

The proposals should be sent to:

247760, Belarus, Homel region, Mozyr, Studencheskaya str., 28 – 219.

Contact emails: allak.1978@mail.ru

mozvuz@mail.gomel.by

Secretaty of the organizing committee – Alla Kirilenko.

Contact telephone/ fax: (+375) 236 325061

Application form
Name:
Institution, position:
Academic title:
City/ town, country:
Title of the report:
Equipment needed (if yes, specify):
Home address (postal code included):
Phone (phone code included):
Fax (phone code included)
Email:
Accommodation required: yes: hotel, hostel; no
Invitation required: no; yes – electronic (and printed on arrival);

yes – printed by post

Date:
Signature:
Number of copies of the book of conference presentations: