<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span><div style="background-color: white; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span><div style="background-color: white; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 27px; font-family: Times; ">33<sup>rd</sup> Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24px; font-family: Times; ">"Digital Discourses: Education and Ethnography in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century"</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 27px; font-family: Times; "></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5704" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT277" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">February 24</span></span> - 25, 2012</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Center for Urban Ethnography</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Graduate School of Education<br>3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5705" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT278" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum</a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Call for Papers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">ONLINE SUBMISSION OPEN:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5706" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT279" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">August 15, 2011</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5707" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); 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text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">December 1, 2011</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Technology and electronic media <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5710" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT283" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">today</span></span> are developing faster than ever, and change the ways we communicate, teach, learn and research. We now live in a digital world where new forms of interactions, social relationships, and identities are generated, thus transforming the very meaning of education. Learning and educating now occur in contexts shaped by Facebook, Smart Phones, Texting, Twitter, online learning, and Skyping—creating new resources and new challenges to our educative worlds. One now needs to draw on ever more diverse semiotic resources when traversing across different virtual and real spaces. As ethnographic researchers, our toolkit has greatly expanded: our briefcase-sized tape recorders of the past have been replaced by pocket-sized digital recorders, smart technology, hand-held video recorders, and online chatting from opposite corners of the globe. These tools have opened up greater possibilities for ethnographically capturing and exploring digital discourses and also for collaboration among ethnographers from a distance. Reciprocally, ethnographic and qualitative research provides keen analytical tools to capture and understand the complex and vibrant realities in which fast-changing technology affects the lives of students and teachers.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The 33<sup>rd</sup> Ethnography in Education Forum will seek to explore the following types of questions:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">How do learning, teaching and researching take on new forms in these new semiotic worlds?<span> </span>How do digital tools shape our ethnographic methods and research? What can ethnographic research teach us about teaching and learning in these ever-changing digital contexts? How do we navigate the obstacles of teaching, learning, and researching with those who --do and do not -- have access to new technologies?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Convenor</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Coordinators</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Bridget Goodman and Kristina Lewis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Plenary Speakers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Angela Reyes, Hunter College</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">John Jackson, University of Pennsylvania</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Linda Christensen, Lewis & Clark College</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Glynda Hull, University of California, Berkeley</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Practitioner Research Day</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Imagining Communities of Inquiry–In Honor of the Scholarship and Legacies of Susan </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">L. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Lytle</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Known for her work in literacy education, educational leadership and practitioner research, Susan Lytle has mentored and challenged generations of scholars to create <i>communities of inquiry</i> – collaborative spaces that generate knowledge from practice and nurture activism for social and educational equity. In recognition of Susan’s work at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Writing Project, in gratitude for her long-standing commitment to the Forum, and in celebration with her on the occasion of her retirement, this year’s Practitioner Research Day seeks to honor her impact and intellectual legacies. Researchers, teachers, and practitioners – both in and out of classrooms – are invited to imagine together the nature, shape, and role of communities of inquiry in 21<sup>st</sup> century learning contexts.<b><i></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">About the Ethnography in Education Research Forum</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The Ethnography in Education Research Forum, convened by the Center for Urban Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania every year since 1980, is the largest annual meeting of qualitative researchers in education. The Forum has from the beginning excelled in nurturing ethnographic research and researchers in schools. The Forum is known for its friendly and supportive atmosphere for fledgling researchers and for the spirit of relaxed and open dialogue embracing newcomers and experienced researchers alike. Areas of emphasis include: multicultural issues in education, practitioner/teacher/action research, critical and feminist ethnography, ethnographic evaluation in education, language issues in education, uses of ethnography in math and science, and indigenous language revitalization.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b>For more information:</b> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5711" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT284" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum</span></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b>For proposal submission beginning <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5712" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT285" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">August 15</span></span>:</b> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5713" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT286" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><a href="http://www.conftool.com/forum2012/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">http://www.conftool.com/forum2012/</span></a></span></span></p></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></body></html>