CFP: Latino Education and Immigrant Integration

[Francis Hult]

http://www.coe.uga.edu/clase/conference/html/callfp.htm
 
National Latino Education Network

First Triennial Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration

October 26-28, 2009

Address:
University of Georgia's Center for Continuing Education 
1197 Lumpkin Street 
N/A 
Athens, Georgia 30602

Event Description:
We invite you to the upcoming First Triennial Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration sponsored by the University of Georgia's Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) in collaboration with the National Latino Education Research Agenda Project. The conference, October 26-28, 2009 at the University of Georgia's Center for Continuing Education in Athens, GA, is designed to promote a forum where a range of stakeholders including academics, practitioners, researchers, grass-roots organizers, policy-makers etc. can meet to discuss the growing need for focused research and cogent policy regarding immigrants and education, particularly in the rapidly changing southeast. See the website for more information about submissions and registration.
http://www.latinosinhighered.com/eventsdetails.php?ID=50

 
We invite submissions of proposal abstracts for both individual papers and complete panels on topics devoted to the conference theme, "Setting the Policy and Research Agenda," as well as on topics related to Latino education and immigration policy defined broadly. 

Abstracts should be 250 words or less, and 
one of the following types of presentations should be selected upon submission
Final Deadline to Submit Abstracts: September 30, 2009
(Note: early-bird registration ends September 15) 
http://www.coe.uga.edu/clase/conference/html/callfp.htm

Themes for papers
After-School Support Programs
Best Practices
Bilingual Education
Closing the Achievment Gap
Counseling and Human Development
Critical Pedagogy
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
Early Childhood Education
English as a Second Language (ESOL)
Evaluation and Assessment
Family and Community Involvement
Heritage Language Education
Immigration Policy
Literacy
Measurement and Statistical Analysis
Multicultural Education
Pedagogical Practices for Diverse Populations
Postsecondary Education
Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education
Research Methodology
Secondary Education
Teacher Quality Studies
The New Latino South
http://www.coe.uga.edu/clase/conference/html/themes.htm

SUBMIT PAPERS AT
http://www.coe.uga.edu/clase/conference/html/submit.htm
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