CONFERENCE

NAAPE 2027 will be held from Friday, October 14th to Sunday, October 17th, 2027. The conference officially begins at 2:15 PM on Friday with a plenary keynote address followed by a champagne reception and ends at 1:15 PM on Sunday following a closing convocation over lunch.

Each year, the NAAPE annual conference takes place at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, IL. Mundelein is an easily accessible suburb of Chicago and St. Mary's is a very large, beautiful wooded campus with excellent amenities. For detailed driving directions to the conference site, click here.

Attendees who register by September 17th, 2027 will receive an early bird registration rate.

NAAPE highly encourages graduate students and K-12 teachers in addition to current faculty to submit papers to and attend the annual conference. While we hope that many graduate students and K-12 teachers will, through the blind peer-review process, be offered spots on the regular program, papers which do not make the program will often be eligible for roundtable (works-in-progress) sessions. In these sessions, authors will be paired with established scholars in the field who will read and respond to their paper in hopes of improving it for future conferences or journal submission.

The registration and submission site for NAAPE 2027 is now open. All papers are double-blind reviewed. Because NAAPE accepts longer papers, authors will receive only brief comments from each of their referees. Notification of decisions will be sent via email by mid to late August. If you have any questions, you can contact us at info@naape.org.

NAAPE welcomes submissions in any area related to philosophy and education and encourages submissions from all traditions of philosophy including work that is historical, contemporary, analytic, continental, theoretical, and/or applied. Furthermore, we encourage authors working within the interdisciplinary fields of educational ethics, moral and civic education, and ethics of educational policy to submit to the conference. However, we only accept papers that are written in clear, straightforward prose that is accessible to a wide range of philosophers and educators. We therefore discourage the use of technical language that is not otherwise clearly explained in the paper. Finally, the paper must have some bearing on education. If that bearing is largely implicit throughout the paper, the author must, at the very least, gesture towards its bearing in the introduction or conclusion of the paper. Submissions for NAAPE 2027 are due July 1st, 2027 by 11:59 PM CDT (UTC -5, Chicago time).