[EDLING:310] Ethnography Forum Call for Papers

[Julia Deak]

29th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum

"Going Public with Ethnography in Education"

February 29 and March 1, 2008

Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

***CALL for PAPERS***

ONLINE SUBMISSIONS OPEN: August 15, 2007
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2007
NOTIFICATION: Early November 2007
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE: Early January 2008

What counts as learning?  In the current public discourse of
ever-narrowing definitions of learning, achievement, and educational
value, ethnographic research offers powerful evidence that not
everything that matters is being counted.  Ethnographers of education
around the world continue to reveal the importance and complexity of
social, cultural, and linguistic life in schools, of processes of
learning, and of the intricate relationships upon which it depends.
How can we make accounts of this complexity heard within a popular
discourse and public policy that seem ever more committed to
simplifying definitions and solutions?  With all that we know and
continue to discover through ethnography in education, how do we go
public?  How do we engage with the media, with popular discourse, and
with public policy on burning social and educational issues in ways
that will influence what counts as learning and what counts as
research?

	The Ethnography in Education Research Forum invites papers that
explore and expand upon what counts as learning and achievement, what
counts as research and gets counted as research, and what methods of
data analysis and representation can be used to communicate findings
about the complex and processual nature of learning and education to
audiences outside, as well as inside, the academy.


Plenary Speakers:
Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University
Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego

All proposals may be submitted online beginning August 15:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS:
Proposals are requested for presentations in the following categories:

1.  Individual Paper (Traditional or Work-in-Progress)
2.  Group Sessions (Traditional or Work-in-Progress)
3.  Data Analysis Consultation

Practitioner Research: For Individual Papers and Group Sessions, you
may choose to designate your presentation as PRACTITIONER RESEARCH.
Practitioner research presentations focus on research by teachers and
other practitioners in educational settings (e.g., school principals,
counselors, non-teaching aides, parents, students, and other members
of school communities). Practitioner research presentations are
particularly featured on Saturday, known as Practitioner Research Day.

1.  Individual Papers: (15 minutes)
Individual papers by one or more authors.  Either final analyses,
results, and conclusions (Traditional) or preliminary findings and
tentative conclusions (Work-in-Progress) may be submitted.  Indicate
practitioner research, if you so choose.

2.  Group Sessions (75 minutes)
A full session of no fewer than three, and no more than six
presenters, including a discussant.  These sessions may vary in
organization: a set of individual papers, a panel discussion, a plan
for interaction among members of the audience in discussion or
workshop groups are possible formats.  Either final analyses, results,
and conclusions (Traditional) or preliminary findings and tentative
conclusions (Work-in-Progress) may be submitted.  Indicate
practitioner research, if you so choose.

3. Data Analysis Consultation (30 minutes)
Individual submissions only.  Presenters offer data along with
questions about analysis for consultation with expert researchers and
conference participants.  Data analysis consultation is by definition
Work-in-Progress.
Presenters must follow specific guidelines available online:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/dacinstructions.php

PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA:

1.  Significance for education
2.  Conceptual orientation
3.  Methodology
4.  Interpretation
5.  Quality of analysis
6.  Depth and clarity

FORMAT OF PROPOSALS:

Everyone must submit:

A. Summary (limit 100 words)
This should be a brief overview of the work to be presented.

B. Description (limit 1500 words)
Selection is based on the description.  A detailed description of the
work to be presented should be submitted including conceptual
orientation, data collection and analysis methods, data
interpretation, and significance to education.

Special Instruction for Group Sessions
Submit Summary and Description of the session overall, as specified
above.  If the session consists of a set of individual papers, the
group session proposal must also include a description for each
individual presentation.

All proposals must be submitted online:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

Questions
E-mail: cue at gse.upenn.edu


-- 
Julia Deak
Educational Linguistics Dept.
PennGSE

(781) 710-6008