18th BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL ARAHE CONGRESS 2015

Technology and Living Literacy:
A Pathway to Achieve Health and Well-being
3 – 7 August 2015  HONG KONG
Hong Kong Institute of Education

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts
The Organizing Committee of the 18th ARAHE Biennial International Congress 2015 invites the submission ofabstracts under the Congress theme:

Technology and Living Literacy: A Pathway to Achieve Health and Well-being
Aspects:
1. Technology and living
2. Environmental sustainability
3. Food literacy
4. Textiles and design
5. Consumer issues and family resource management
6. Health and well-being7. Home Economics policies in education and training
8. Interculturalism and globalization
All proposals for presentations and posters require submission of an abstract to be emailed to arahe2015@gmail.com
For submissions involving more than one presenter, the abstracts to be submitted by the lead author for individualpapers, posters and exhibits.

Abstract preparation and format
Contact details of presenting author

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Details of author and co-author(s)Email address
Full postal address
Phone number(s)Full first and FAMILY NAME(S). Family name must be in UPPER CASE
The presenting author’s name must ne underlined
Affiliation details: department, institution, city, state, country

Abstracts title

Limited to 20 words in UPPER CASE

Abstract text

In English
Text should not exceed 300 words, including acknowledgements
Figures, graphs, images, tables and diagrams should not be included

Abstracts should clearly state the following:Aim: state the rationale or hypothesis followed by objectives
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Method(s): briefly discuss the design of the study/programme and how it was conductedResults/Findings: present the main results with appropriate statistics/data analysis and pertinent discussion
Conclusions: limit the conclusions to those that are directly supported by the resultsKey words: include 3-5 key words
Only standardized abbreviations will be allowed. Place special or unusual abbreviations in parentheses after thefull word appears the first time.

18th BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL ARAHE CONGRESS 2015

Technology and Living Literacy:
A Pathway to Achieve Health and Well-being
3 – 7 August 2015  HONG KONG
Hong Kong Institute of Education

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts
Criteria for acceptance of presentations
An individual may only submit two abstracts as lead author.
Presentations will be selected on the basis of merit and relevance to the field of home economics and to theCongress theme.
All full papers must be previously unpublished.
All presenters must register and pay a full Congress registration by 15 February 2015 or the paper/presentation
will be removed from the program.
Responsibility for transport of accepted exhibit items to and from Congress lies with the individual
artist/exhibitor. All such items must be the original work of the attributed artist/exhibitor.

Types of presentation
Individual paper:A 15-20 minutes presentation (including time for questions) within a concurrent session. Although
independent of other presentations, individual papers will be programmed according to the thematic stream
and keywords nominated by the author(s).
Papers that have a research basis will require identification on the online submission form through selectionof research methodology. Abstracts for research papers should be set out with the following subheadings :Aim; Method(s); Results/findings; Conclusion.

Poster:Authors will be required to be present with their posters at Congress for a specified period for discussionof their posters. Specifications for poster will be confirmed upon acceptance.
Submission Deadlines
6 October 2014
Opening date for submitting abstracts
29 November 2014
30 January 2015

Closing date for all abstracts
Notification of acceptance of abstracts for all presentations