First International Conference of the GPES Thinktank 29 - 31 July 2010 - Accra - Ghana

Call for Proposals
Deadlines:
• Abstract submission: January 16th, 2010
• Full text submission: March 16th, 2010
The Ghana Physical Education & Sport Thinktank invites you to submit a presentation proposal for the 2010 GPES Conference to be held in Ghana at the Alisa Hotel in Accra from July 29th to 31st 2010. Conference programming will be based primarily on this Call for Proposals, bringing innovative ideas and research to Physical Education & Sport faculty, researchers, practitioners, and students (graduate and undergraduate).

There are a variety of ways to present your innovative ideas and research:

• Lecture with one or more presenters
• Demonstration or poster session
• Active participation presentation
• Interactive discussion and round tables
• Panel discussion & more
GPES Thinktank encourages the presentation of graduate student research as a "work in progress" or a finished study. If we have enough graduate student proposals, we will schedule a time slot to feature graduate student poster presentations so they can receive feedback and interact with faculty and practitioners from all over the world.

Theme : New directions in physical education and sport

Areas :
• Standards-based curriculum
• Regular physical activity and health
• Active living and healthy-lifestyle promotion
• Time to learn, scope and sequence, and curriculum alignment

• Assessment practices in physical education and sport

• Continuing development in teaching and teacher education

• Physical education and sport for special populations

• Effective educational sports organization and management models

• Management of sports in educational institutions

• Marketing, promotion and journalism in physical education and sport

Abstracts & Full Texts:
Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Full text of accepted abstracts will be peer-reviewed and published in the Ghana Physical Activity & Sports Journal. Contributors should limit abstracts to 300 words. Full text should be limited to twelve pages, double-spaced and to include references, tables and charts.

Submission Mode:
Abstracts and full texts should be e-mailed as attachment to the GPES Thinktank Coordinator via

[email protected]
Development / Accra / Ghana / Africa / Modernghana.com