'Powerful Learning' & the Perry Scheme:
Exploring Intellectual Development's Role in Knowing, Learning, & Reasoning, Volume II

May 13-15, 2004
University of Memphis Memphis, TN

Keynote Speaker
L. Lee Knefelkamp, Teachers College, Columbia University

COSPONSORED BY

Center for the Study of Higher Education

& The Perry Network

Conference Coordinators:

Dr. Pat Murrell, Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Memphis, (901) 678-2775, <mailto:murrellp@cc.memphis.edu>

 Dr. William S. Moore, Coordinator, The Perry Network  (360) 970-1382, <mailto:wsmoore51@comcast.edu>

This "working conference" reprises most of the key features of the successful Perry network conference held in January 2002 at CSUãFullerton. It will provide participants with an intensive opportunity to explore the conference theme through both plenary and small-group discussions in a mixture of formal sessions and informal, guided conversations. The conference will again be organized around four major strands or themes:

Theory--refinements, changing contexts, cross-connections among various models
Teaching & Learning--conceptual and empirical work related to implications for instructional design

Assessment & Research--approaches, empirical advances,  specific studies

Diversity & Student Support--cross-cultural perspectives, campus climate issues, etc.

In addition to the keynote presentation by Lee Knefelkamp, the person most responsible for bringing the powerful implications of Perry's work to the attention of the higher education community, a variety of conference sessions ands formats will be offered designed to tap into and utilize the expertise and interests of all conference participants. We believe that the conference design will allow us to harness effectively the collective expertise of the whole mini-community we will create over the three days of the conference. As in 2002, there will be a post-conference rater training workshop led by Dr. Mooreãspace is limited to 30 people, registration fee $35.

The conference fee will be $180, and registration materials will be available in January. For now, the call for proposals is available, with a submission deadline of December 1, 2003. If youπre doing any work related to the Perry scheme, intellectual development, or personal epistemology, please consider submitting a proposal and joining us in Memphis in May!!