CFP: 27th Annual Ethnography in Education Reminder (Modified by phil cash cash)

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The submission deadline for the 27th Annual Ethnography in Education
Research Forum is now only ten days away: OCTOBER 15, 2005.

The submission information is included below.

The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and the 
Center
for Urban Ethnography announce the 27th Annual Ethnography in Education
Research Forum, to be held February 24th and February 25th, 2006 on the
University of Pennslyvania campus. The Ethnography in Education Research
Forum, the largest annual meeting of qualitative researchers in 
education,
is currently accepting proposal submissions for individual papers and 
symposia
that focus directly on issues of significance for the conduct and
understanding of the processes of education. The submission DEADLINE is
OCTOBER 15, 2005.

We encourage proposals of research in areas such as ethnography of
education; research on everyday school practice; practictioner research;
multicultural, critical and feminist studies of education; language and
literacy in education; urban and international education; indigenous 
language
revitalization; action research in education; and more.

Please find the call for papers below as well as on the forum's website
(http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php).  Note that all proposals must 
be
submitted online.


27th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum

"Educators and Ethnographers Negotiating Ideological and 
Implementational
Spaces”

Throughout the world ideological and implementational gaps continue to 
develop
between globalizing forces and national educational policies on the one 
hand
and pedagogical and social justice demands in classrooms and schools on 
the
other. Educators who negotiate these gaps on a daily basis search for 
third
spaces and creative ways to fill them. They struggle to meet the 
demands of
standardized assessments while trying to create curricula that are both
engaging and relevant for students with diverse backgrounds. They seek 
out
pedagogical strategies for helping their students benefit from the 
social and
economic advantages of globalization without sacrificing local ways of 
being
and doing.  Educational researchers, in turn, attempt to understand the 
inter-
connections and disparities between different levels of educational 
practice –
from policy-making, to curricular design, to the work of classroom 
teachers.
These researchers collaborate with teachers and administrators to bridge
implementational gaps and to reconcile local ideologies with those 
reflected
in educational policy, including ways of transforming, resisting and
challenging those ideologies.

The Ethnography in Education Research Forum invites papers that explore 
these
issues by documenting grassroots responses to varying levels of 
educational
policy, describing teacher-researcher collaboration in the negotiation 
of
third spaces, making theoretical and methodological connections between 
the
study of societal level phenomena and local processes, bringing to light
covert responses to overt policy decisions, and critically examining
relationships between academic and public interests.

Plenary Speakers

*Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, New York University Steinhardt School of 
Education

*Carole Edelsky, Arizona State University College of Education

*Antonia Candela, Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas del Centro 
de
  Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, México

*Elsie Rockwell, Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas del Centro 
de
  Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, México

*Jan Nespor, Virginia Tech School of Education

CALL FOR PAPERS
The dates for the 2006 Forum are Friday, February 24 - Saturday, 
February, 25,
2006. Participants should plan to arrive in Philadelphia on Thursday 
evening,
February 23, as both Friday and Saturday will offer a full program of
sessions. Registration and all sessions will be held on the University 
of
Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, PA.

Proposals are invited in areas such as:
*Multicultural and inter-ethnic issues in education.
*Practitioner research – by teachers, administrators, students, 
parents, and
  other school community members.
*Critical and feminist studies in education.
*Ethnographic evaluation in education.
*Language learning, language policy, and literacy issues in education.
*Uses of ethnography in science and math education.
*Uses of microethnographic methods in research on everyday school 
practice.
*Ethnographies of urban education.
*Indigenous language revitalization.
*Action research in education settings.
*Ethnography and Educational Policy

PRESENTATION FORMATS
1. Traditional Paper – Individual or Group
These presentations should report on analyses, results, and conclusions 
in
final form.

2. Work-in-Progress – Individual or Group
If you anticipate presenting preliminary conclusions, submit your 
proposal as
a Work-in-Progress. Presentations of works-in-progress differ from both 
data
analysis and from traditional papers in that initial findings and 
tentative
conclusions are emphasized. Presenters may consult the audience about 
their
conclusions.

3. Data Analysis Consultation - Individual submissions only
Held on Friday only: 30 minutes for presentation and discussion.
Proposals should state questions about data analysis and identify the 
data to
be addressed. Please adhere to the following guidelines for your 
proposal:

(a) 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.

(b) 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.

(c) Presenters should not plan to present preliminary conclusions. 
Rather,
their purpose should be to seek advice on data analysis.

The data analysis presentation is unique to the Forum. Presentation 
guidelines
are as follows:

(1) 5 minutes to describe the nature of the research (1 minute), provide
context (1 minute), and present the specific data analysis questions to 
be
addressed (3 minutes).

(2) 5 minutes for the audience to read or watch the data.

(3) 20 minutes for general discussion guided by a research methods 
consultant.
Audience members provide insights and advice regarding emergent 
patterns and
themes in the data as well as alternative methods of analysis.

Presenters must prepare 40 copies of written data sources or select a 
few
minutes of audio and/or video data to share with the audience. Please 
note
audiovisual equipment needs in your proposal.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
Individual Presentations (15 minutes)
Proposals may be submitted by individual presenters for any of the
presentation formats: Data Analysis, Work-in-Progress, or Traditional 
Paper.
(See instructions online, in addition to the notes above on presentation
formats.)

Group Sessions (75 minutes)
Group session proposals may be submitted for Traditional Paper or 
Work-in-
Progress formats, but not for Data Analysis Consultations, which are 
always
individual submissions.

The proposal should describe the rationale and specific content of the
session, including a brief overview of the session topic and a 
paragraph on
research methods used, a summary of findings, and bibliographic 
citations. The
proposal should make clear the relevance of the session topic for the 
field of
education.

No fewer than three, and no more than six presenters, including a 
discussant,
should be included in a group session. 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. If the session consists of a set of individual 
papers, the
group session proposal must also include an abstract for each individual
presentation.

Practitioner Research – Individual Paper or Group Session
In addition to submitting your proposal as an individual paper or group
session, and indicating clearly whether it is for the traditional 
paper, work-
in-progress, or data consultation format, you may also choose to 
designate it
as a practitioner research presentation. These 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 of the Forum, known as Practitioner 
Research
Day.

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS
1. Significance for education: Presentations should address topics 
concerning
educational processes, formal or informal. We do not accept general
ethnographic reports on topics not directly related to educational 
issues.

2. Conceptual framework: The theoretical assumptions and conceptual 
bases
underlying the research should be briefly described.

3. Interpretation as a framing perspective: Interpretive strategies 
should be
utilized to identify the various points of view of the 
person/people/program
whose actions are being described and analyzed.

4. Method: Ethnographic research is multi-layered; the presentation 
should
combine evidence from a variety of data sources, i.e. more than one of 
the
following: participant observation, field notes, audio- or video-tapes,
interviews, site documents, demographic and historical information.

5. Description: There should be both depth and specificity in 
description.
Rather than strictly focusing on results, we expect a rich description 
of the
study context, presenting such things as vivid narrative vignettes and 
quotes
from interviews. The descriptive voice should communicate
specificity, "showing" as opposed to "telling" in general terms.

6. Analysis: We are interested in both the originality of the analysis 
and the
adequacy of the evidence. Analytic categories should be arrived at 
inductively
rather than deductively. Analysis should incorporate the specific and 
the
general, considering details of what actual persons do and linking those
particulars to general processes of social structure and culture.


PROCEDURE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS
All proposals are submitted electronically. Go to

http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

Choose on-line submission. The final deadline for proposal submission is
October 15, 2005. We will not be able to review incomplete proposals.


27th ETHNOGRAPHY FORUM CALENDAR
October 15, 2005 – All proposals should be submitted electronically by 
this
date.

Early November – Notification of acceptance or rejection by e-mail. All
submitters will receive notification. Information regarding the day and 
time
of sessions will be provided later.

Early January 2006 – All individuals and groups who have been accepted 
will be
notified by e-mail that the preliminary schedule and the presenters' 
contact
information are posted on the web. Using the find function on the web 
browser,
individuals and groups can find the day and time of their session. The 
pre-
registration forms will also be posted on the website. Please fill in 
the
form, submit the form electronically, and then print out the 
confirmation
page. Include the confirmation page with your check or money order.

January 21, 2006 – All requests for changes in the schedule must be 
submitted
via e-mail to cue at gse.upenn.edu by this date.

February 14, 2006 - Pre-registration confirmation page and payment must 
be
post-marked by this date. Final schedule will be posted on the web. No
reimbursement for cancelled registration available after this date.

February 24 and February 25, 2006 - 27th Ethnography in Education 
Research
Forum

Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216
cue at gse.upenn.edu