Call for Papers

This conference is open to the public, and the electronic file of the call for papers in Mandarin will be sent to all members of the Taiwan Association for the Sociology of Education. The electronic file in English will also be sent to the Secretariat of the Research Committee on Sociology of Education (RC04) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for distribution to its members and posting on the committee's web site and newsletter. The poster will be announced by the Department of Education and Learning Technology, National Tsing Hua University, with the help of the education-related faculties and departments of domestic universities.

1. Language: Mandarin or English.

2. Abstracts will be reviewed based on topic and quality, and should be 300 to 500 words in English (or 600 to 1,000 words in Mandarin), including research motivation, purpose, methodology, and conclusions of major findings or expected results.

3. Please fill out the “Form of Basic Information and Paper Abstracts for Authors” (Appendix I), specifying the author's name, affiliation, and position (for students, please include the school and department of study). Check the topic(s), and send it to tase2025nthu@gmail.com by the submission deadline with the subject line: “31st Taiwan Forum on Sociology of Education_Article Title_Author’s name” (e.g., 31st Taiwan Forum on Sociology of Education_ Study on Experiences and Opinions of New Female Immigrants on Cultural Citizenship_ Chen, A. S.).

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Editorial Board of the TSSCI journal, Research on Sociology of Taiwan Education, affiliated with the Taiwan Association for the Social Studies of Education (TASE). Five categories of papers will be reviewed: academic papers in Mandarin, academic papers in English, outstanding doctoral dissertations, outstanding master's dissertations, and graduate student dissertations. An anonymous review system will be used to select papers for publication.

1. Full paper submission Requirements: After your abstract has been accepted, you will be required to submit the full text (including title, name, affiliation, position, topics, and abstract). Authors are required to present their papers in person at the conference in order to be included in the conference handbook.

2. The format of the full paper is as follows: 

• English papers should not be more than 6,000 words (include abstract, figures, references and appendices).

• The title of the paper should be placed in the center (20-point font, blackened).

• Section headings should follow the APA style.

• English text should be in Times New Roman (12-point font).

• Front and back paragraph spacing is “automatic”, line spacing is “single line spacing”, and line height is “1.5 times line height”.

• Document boundaries are “standard” (top and bottom: 2.54 centimeters; left and right: 3.18 centimeters).