2nd Call for Papers: Topoi–Reasoning, Argumentation, and Critical Thinking Instruction
Submission Deadline: 30 OCTOBER 2015
Topic: Reasoning, Argumentation, Critical Thinking Instruction (RACT)
Journal: TOPOI (http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245)
Peer review stage: about 8 weeks
Submission of revised papers: January 2016
Online-first publication expected: April 2016
Following the RACT2015 conference, held 25-27 FEB at Lund University (see: http://ract2015.wordpress.com), we invite submissions of papers for publication in a special issue of TOPOI (http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245). Papers must be in the order of 6000 to 8000 words (including references), and must address one or more of the conference themes listed at the above website. Whether being addressed from an empirical or a more conceptual perspective, other than rigor and quality of scholarship (as evidenced, for instance, by demonstrating, familiarity with the relevant literature), this special issue primarily seeks to inform those who wish to reduce the distance between the research front and what is (falsely) presented to students as the state-of-the-art critical thinking instruction. Therefore, papers should in one way or another be of immediate relevance to those who already do, or plan to, teach or implement instruction in critical thinking as part of school or university education, either as dedicated courses or across the curriculum. Of special relevance is the current trend to appropriate research on social, cognitive and other biases, as well as two systems or two processes accounts of human reasoning.
Among those invited to submit to this special issue are the RACT keynote speakers:
- Jean Goodwin (Department of English, Iowa State University, Ames, I0, USA
- Jean-François Bonnefon (CLLE Research Center, CNRS Toulouse, France)
- Michael Weinstock (Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel)
- Robert Ennis (Educational Policy Studies, College of Education, University of Illinois, Champaign, Il., USA)
- Rebecca Schendel (Institute of Education, University College London, UK)
- Ulrike Hahn (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, London, UK)
Some authors of section papers (listed at: https://ract2015.wordpress.com/program/) among whom the following have agreed to submit their work:
- Tim Kenyon (University of Waterloo) and Guillaume Beaulac (Yale University)
- Mariusz Urbanski and Katarzyna Paluszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
- Chip Sheffield (Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA)
- Moira Howes (Trent University, Canada)
- Gabor Tahin (Downside School, UK)
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Having been prepared for blind review, your manuscript must be submitted on or before 30 OCTOBER at http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/ (for which you may have to create a user account), by selecting “S.I. RACT 2015 (Zenker)” from the pull-down menu, and must follow these standards:
- 600-8000 words (incl. abstract and references)
- at least 3 cm margins (left, right)
- Double line spacing; 12 point font, Times New Roman
- Use section numbers (1. Introduction; 2. Section, 2.1 Subsection, etc)
- avoid footnotes
- for citation style, please see the “Instructions for authors” at: http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245
All papers have to pass through the peer review stage before they can be published. Those unsure whether a given topic fits this special issue may submit a brief abstract (max 200 words) to the editor, Frank Zenker, at frank.zenker@fil.lu.se to receive feedback.
RAIL 
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