ACCUTE 2009
ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English) occurs from May 28 to May 31, 2010 at Concordia U, Montreal, Canada
CFP: Victorian Literature and Education (deadline: 11/15/09; NAVSA/ACCUTE, 5/28/09-5/31/09)
Panels organized by Jason Camlot (Concordia U)
The Victorian period saw the development of a wide range of new curricula, new modes of pedagogy, and the establishment of new educational institutions. The 1836 royal charter that granted the University of London the right to confer university degrees, the founding of the first Women’s colleges in the late 1840s, the 1870 Education Act, are just a few historical results of the intense thought, effort and innovation of numerous individual educators, politicians, writers and thinkers. With such development and reform came a rich expository, philosophical and creative literature that engaged with important questions about the scope and function of education, and the role of educational methods and institutions for the development of the individual.
This call invites proposals for individual or collaborative papers on the theme of "Victorian Literature and/of Education.” Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:
- Art Education
- Autodidacticism
- Classical Humanism
- Educational Reform
- Education and the Victorian bildungsroman
- Education of the Laboring Classes
- Examinations
- Literature curricula in the Victorian period
- Physical Education
- Public Schools in Victorian literature
- Religious Education
- Secular Education
- Science Education
- University Poetry Prizes
- Utilitarianism and Education
- Victorian Pedagogy
- Women and Education
Send 250 word proposals or completed papers for 15-20-minute talks to Jason Camlot <camlot@alcor.concordia.ca>. Deadline: 15 November 2009.
