Call for Papers--Ethnography Forum

[Francis M Hult]

This might be of interest to list members.  The deadline has been 
extended to Oct 17th, I believe.  

Francis

> Center for Urban Ethnography
> 
> Graduate School of Education
> University of Pennsylvania
> 3700 Walnut Street
> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216
> 
> 
> Dear Colleague,
> 
> The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and the
> Center
> for Urban Ethnography announce the 25th Annual Ethnography in Education
> Research Forum, February 27th and February 28th, 2004.  Please find our
> Call
> for Papers on the web (http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php). We
> encourage
> proposal submissions to the 2004 Forum that focus directly on issues of
> significance for the conduct and understanding of the processes of
> education.
> The submission deadline is October 3rd, 2003.
> 
> The theme of the 2004 Forum is “Ethnography as scientifically based
> research:
> Implications for educational policy and practice.” In an era of a
> powerfully
> directive federal educational discourse which seemingly equates
> experimental
> research with scientific evidence and accountability with effectiveness,
> ethnographers of education are forcefully challenged to define and
> defend
> ethnographic and qualitative research approaches to understanding
> educational
> effectiveness.  Issues of evidence, truth, credibility, and
> generalizability
> are at the fore in ways reminiscent of the educational research climate
> which
> gave birth to the Forum 25 years ago.  In this year's Forum, we seek to
> celebrate the accomplishments of educational ethnography over the past
> quarter
> century while simultaneously charting our course to meet the challenges
> of the
> next.
> 
> We are happy to announce that Michael Agar, Cindy Ballenger, Frederick
> Erickson, and Perry Gilmore will be our plenary speakers this year and
> may
> also join in facilitating the data analysis consultation sessions which
> are a
> regular part of the Forum.
> 
> The Forum hosts a diverse selection of workshops convened by graduate
> students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of education and
> anthropology. Proposals may be submitted for data analysis consultation,
> individual papers, works-in progress, and group sessions. We especially
> encourage proposals which incorporate the theme of the 2004 Forum.
> 
> Please post this announcement as an invitation for
> faculty, students, teachers and other practitioners to participate in
> the
> Forum. Further inquiries may be directed to Mihyon Jeon and David
> Cassels
> Johnson, the Student Forum Coordinators, at cue at gse.upenn.edu.
> 
> Thank you for your assistance. We look forward to seeing many of you at
> the
> 25th Ethnography Forum.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Nancy H. Hornberger
> Convenor
> 
> 
> --
> Center for Urban Ethnography
> Graduate School of Education
> University of Pennsylvania
> 3700 Walnut St.
> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216
> Email: cue at gse.upenn.edu
> Phone: 215-898-3273
>