Title: Competition, Community, and Educational Growth: Contemporary Perspectives on Competitive Speech and Debate
Purpose: Forensics provides a vast learning experience for students and coaches, equipping them with essential training in team competition while developing individual growth. We contend that qualitative data sets and critical pedagogy represent two key areas underutilized in forensics research despite their function as essential training tools for contemporary high school and undergraduate college students, coaches, and organizations. This gap in advancing theoretical and methodological use becomes important when updating contemporary perspectives on theory and method within competitive forensics. The purpose of the proposed book is to examine contemporary forensics with personalized essays from large and small programs, to offer a well-rounded approach that retains broad application, and to provide unique firsthand scholarly insight that will ideally stimulate readers, add to scholarly conversations, and motivate present/future uses and users.
This call invites proposed chapter titles and abstracts for an edited anthology to be submitted in August to Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The book’s main focus is to connect academic thought and experience concerning the impact of forensics on four key areas: educational growth, building community between students and programs, the role competition plays in and around these processes, and the pedagogical praxis employed by the coaching community. We are looking for chapter proposals with explicit focus on Forensics and Learning/Education, focusing on reflections of events as activity and experience, methods of coaching/teaching students, forensics pedagogy, and connections to the Communication Studies discipline.
Proposed Structure: This collection will consist of an introduction, a conclusion, and 12-15 essays exploring this topic. One primary goal is to unify contemporary perspectives as a central theme throughout each chapter in the collection. While we are open to various directions related to forensics and learning, ideas that would fit within the book are as follows:
- The central role forensics plays in addressing past/present/future race, class, and gender relations
- Forensics methods/lessons – The values of topic selection, the process of translating material, cultivating an eye for topical material, and how these relate directly to educational growth
- Ethics and Values of gathering information (e.g. engaging scholarly research without calling it “research”)
- Methods of Recruitment in the 21st Century-Social transmedia & networking
- Theory and Practice of Communication Studies through forensics activities
- Changing and/or Maintaining Team Culture
- Interdisciplinarity between forensics and Performance Studies, Auto/Ethnography, Public Communication, etc.
Further criteria for chapters:
- Each essay should contain original scholarship on the topic and should not be in consideration for any other scholarly publication.
- Each chapter will run between 4,000-5,000 words, depending on the number of submissions, including endnotes and references.
- Chapters must adhere to Chicago Style format, particularly when it applies to use of endnotes and references page (no exceptions).
For Chapter Proposals, Submissions guidelines are as follows:
- Potential chapter title, contributor name (including co-authors), contact email, and contributor’s university position and professional title.
- Extended abstract of 250-400 words explaining the aspect of forensics you would analyze along with the relationship to the contemporary perspectives theme of the book.
- Save proposal file as a Word.doc titled, “LastName_ForensicsABSTRACT”
- Please attach a CV.
Timeline: All chapter proposals are DUE on or before August 6th, 2016. Proposals will be reviewed and all parties notified of acceptance/decline by August 22, 2016. Those accepted will be notified of manuscript/publications deadlines upon acceptance. The current goal is for a final manuscript completion date of late winter 2017 with a fall 2017 print debut. Please send submissions and/or questions to copela03@nsuok.edu.
Editors:
Kristopher Copeland, PhD, Assistant Professor & Director of Forensics, Northeastern State University (copela03@nsuok.edu)
Garret Castleberry, PhD, Director of Forensics, Oklahoma City University (garretcastleberry3@gmail.com)
We look forward to receiving your submission.
Kristopher Copeland
Assistant Professor and Director of Forensics
Northeastern State University
601 N. Grand Ave.
Tahlequah, OK 74464
918-444-3627
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