CFP: 32nd Annual Ethnography in Education Forum

[Francis Hult]

32nd Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
"Immigration and Migration: Ethnography in Education in Dynamic Times and Spaces"
February 25 - 26, 2011

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

***CALL for PROPOSALS***
ONLINE SUBMISSION OPEN: August 16, 2010
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2010
NOTIFICATION: early November, 2010
REQUIRED PREREGISTRATION FOR PRESENTERS: December 1, 2010


Globalizing flows of people, information, ideas, language varieties, goods, capitals, and technology make their way into traditional and innovative educational spaces today as never before. These dynamic flows shape who our current students, teachers, and families are; the diversified strengths they bring to learning; our approaches to effective teaching; and, ultimately, what abilities will prepare the next generation as global citizens.  Ethnographic and qualitative research provides keen analytical tools to capture and understand the complex and vibrant realities in which we experience education in such dynamic times and lends itself to telling the stories of newcomers that often go unnoticed or unheard.

The 32nd Ethnography in Education Forum will seek to explore the following types of questions: How do learning, teaching and researching take on new forms amidst dynamic flows of people and growing numbers of Diaspora communities?  How do educators foster spaces that build upon the cultural and languaging resources young people bring to contexts of learning? How do we navigate the obstacles of teaching, learning, and researching with those who differ from us?  What knowledges, ideas, relationships, and technologies are learners and teachers drawing on to make sense of these dynamic times and spaces?

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Jan Blommaert, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Gerald Campano, Indiana University, USA

Norma González, University of Arizona, USA

Stacey J. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA



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 Inquiry by selecting the appropriate submission track, 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 Inquiry by selecting the appropriate submission track, if you so choose.

3. Data Analysis Consultation (35 minutes)
Presenters offer their own un-analyzed data along with questions about analysis for consultation with expert researchers and conference participants. Data analysis consultation is by definition Work-in-Progress.
Data Analysis proposals should state questions about data analysis and identify the data to be addressed. This is designed as a 'workshop format' where you quickly present relatively un-analyzed data. The majority of the session is dedicated to the panel of data consultants giving advice on how to approach this data.


PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA:
1.  Significance for education
2.  Conceptual orientation
3.  Methodology
4.  Description and data analysis
5.  Clarity and detail of proposal

FORMAT OF PROPOSALS:
Everyone must submit:

A. Abstract (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.  Please indicate if it is a Work-in-Progress in the body of your Description.

Special Instruction for Group Sessions
Submit Abstract 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.

Special Instruction for Data Analysis
Please adhere to the following guidelines for your Data Analysis proposal:
* State 2 or 3 questions about data analysis that will be addressed. Questions should be narrowly defined and intimately tied to the data being presented.
* Identify the specific data that will actually be used in the presentation. Data to be shared may include field notes (maximum 2 pages), interview transcripts (maximum 1 page), audio and/or video tapes (maximum 1 minute), and archival and site documents.
* Presenters should not plan to present preliminary conclusions. Rather, their purpose should be to seek advice on data analysis.
* Please note audiovisual equipment needs in your proposal.

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

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