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31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
“Creativity, Crisis and Qualitative Research: Re-imagining Education
in a Changing World"

February 26 - 27, 2010

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

***CALL for PAPERS***
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 2, 2009
NOTIFICATION:  early November, 2009
REQUIRED PREREGISTRATION FOR PRESENTERS: December 1, 2009

We live in an era of rapid changes, and this year has had especially
dramatic ones: a global economic crisis, the inauguration of the first
African-American President of the United States, and the massive
popularization of iPhone-type mobile web devices, to name a few.  In
U.S. education, for example, charter schools and more and more public
schools are experimenting with new ways of doing teaching and
learning, from online course formats to “small school” models to ways
of making do with smaller budgets and staff.  How have the social,
economic, cultural, and technological changes of our time influenced
our ways of teaching and learning, inside and outside of school, as
well as our “ways of knowing” as researchers and practitioners? And
how do we create new ways of teaching, learning, researching, and
knowing, amidst change?

There has been much talk of change in our societies, from suggestions
of a post-racial era, to predictions of minority-majority demographic
shifts and class mobility, to initiatives for financial reorganization
and school accountability.  In such times of crisis, or opportunity,
ethnographers and qualitative researchers are uniquely positioned to
be able to find, understand, and share creative new ways of learning
and knowing.  At this 31st annual Ethnography in Education research
forum, we hope to hear about and share creative re-imaginings and new
ways of doing education, with an eye towards the future of education
reform, research, and practice.

Plenary speakers:
Samy Alim, University of California at Los Angeles

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College, and Susan Lytle, University of
Pennsylvania

Doug Foley, University of Texas at Austin

All proposals may be submitted online beginning August 14:
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 Inquiry: For Individual Papers and Group Sessions, you
may choose to designate your presentation as PRACTITIONER INQUIRY.
Practitioner Inquiry 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 Inquiry presentations are
particularly featured on Saturday, known as Practitioner Inquiry 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 (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. 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.

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

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

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