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

January 10-12, 2002
California State University, Fullerton-Titan Student Union

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

COSPONSORED BY THE

COLLEGE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY SERVICE, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON

Conference Coordinators:
JoAnn Carter-Wells, Professor Reading and Technology Coordinator, HDCS, CSU, Fullerton (714) 278-3357
William S. Moore, Coordinator, The Perry Network (360) 786-5094

This "working conference" 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 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, each conference strand will include a brief plenary session providing an overview and context for key issues in that strand. The rest of the conference will be a mixture of typical conference sessions and facilitated "open space" discussions 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.