[EDLING:2029] CFP: English Teacher Education and Pedagogy

[Francis M Hult]

> SPECIAL PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT Teacher Education and Pedagogy
> 
> Please consider joining our discussions of teaching and learning at the
> COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING in New Orleans this April
> 12-14.
> 
> Our conference theme this year--so appropriate to our location--is
> "Empathy and Ethics."=20
> 
> You might consider in terms of the following broad issues:
> 
> How do we respond, as teachers or teacher-educators, to difficult
> circumstances? Do we prepare our students always to act in right
> ways-according to some ethical imperative or ideal? Do we care if we do?
> 
> For our 2007 meeting, CEA invites papers and panels that consider how we
> construct and understand empathy or ethical responsibilities and how
> those understandings inform what we write, read, and teach.=20
> 
> We encourage consideration of these and other questions related to the
> conference theme:
> 
> *	How are empathy and/or ethics portrayed in literature?=20
> *	How do works of fiction, poetry, film, and memoir discuss values
> and build empathy?=20
> *	What are the connections between empathy, ethics, and eloquence?
> *	How are matters of empathy, ethics, revenge, and self-service
> addressed in the English classroom, in what we read, write, research,
> teach, and practice as professionals?=20
> *	How are our students challenged to consider these matters? What
> is the role of difference in the classroom: differences in culture, in
> ethnicity, in gender, in sexual preference?=20
> *	Can we teach students to care about and empathize with one
> another and with people outside the classroom and in other countries?=20
> *	How can teachers help students to think critically and ethically
> so that they can question and write about their assumptions regarding
> the universality of their own values and ideas?=20
> *	How political should classrooms be?=20
> *	How does the collaborative classroom handle these issues?=20
> *	How concerned with global issues should our classrooms be?=20
> 
> To learn more about CEA and for a fuller discussion of this year's
> theme, please take a look here: http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/index.htm
> 
> CEA is a vibrant and collegial organization and its conference has
> always celebrated scholarly activity in many forms: papers on literary
> criticism, on writing theory, and on writing and literary teaching
> pedagogies as they relate to the conference themes and special topic
> sessions.
> 
> If you consider joining us, here's what you need to know:
> 
> CEA conference panels are composed of three to four presenters; papers
> are to be no more than 15 minutes in reading length.
> 
> The submission requirements are as follow:
> 
> 1) Proposals of 200 to 500 words (include title) for the CEA Special
> Topics Panels on Academic Leadership SHOULD BE submitted using the CEA
> proposal submission site at the URL
> http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/conftool/index.php indicating the topic
> submission category of Academic Leadership and Mentoring.
> 
> Electronic submissions open September 15th and close on November 30th.
> 
> Submitting electronically is a two-step process: (1) setting up a user
> ID; then (2) using that ID to log in-this time to a welcome page which
> provides a link for submitting proposals to the conference. When you
> submit your proposal, use the pull-down menu to indicate your topic
> category.
> 
> If submitting a panel, panel organizers must create user IDs for ALL
> proposed participants.
> 
> Direct database submissions will provide prompts for the following
> information below. Note: Any hard-copy proposals sent by mail must
> include the same information
> 
> Name
> Institutional affiliation (if applicable) Mailing address (including zip
> code) Phone number E-mail address Title for the proposed presentation.
> 
> Abstract of 200-500 words
> 
> A-V equipment needs, if any
> 
> Special needs, if any
> 
> 2) Submitters will be notified of CEA's acceptance of the panels by 5
> December 2006.
> 
> 3) All presenters must be paid (U. S. currency) members of CEA by 1
> January 2007.***
> 
> All presenters please note:
> 
> 1) CEA Membership is required for all presenters. Conference
> registration information material will arrive later in January and will
> indicate registration fee payment deadlines at that time, BUT CEA
> membership dues must be paid by January 1, 2007 to appear on the
> program.***
> 
> 2) Only one paper proposal per person for one panel will be accepted.
> 
> 3) Participants must present their accepted paper (others cannot attend
> for you and present your paper)
> 
> 4) All presentations must be made in English.
> 
> 5) CEA cannot fund travel or participant costs.
> 
> Dr. Jeraldine R. Kraver
> Associate Professor of English
> Director of English Education
> School of English Language and Literature
> University of Northern Colorado
> 1130D Ross Hall
> Greeley, Colorado  80637
> (970) 351-1477
> Fax 970-351-3378
> Jeraldine.Kraver at unco.edu