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AERA 2008 CESJ Sponsored Sessions

CESJ Business Meeting

Time: Monday, March 24 - 6:15p.m. - 8:15p.m.
Place: Hilton New York, Lincoln Suite, 4th Floor

Invited Session

"The Struggle and Hope for Critical Researchers and Scholars:" CESJ Graduate Student Fireside Chat

Time: Tuesday, March 25 - 6:15p.m. - 7:45p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Lyceum Complex, Alvin Room, 5th Floor

Chair: Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos (San Diego State University)

Discussant: Roseanne Vallice-Kalarickal (University of South Florida - Tampa)

Participants:

Peter L. Mclaren (University of California - Los Angeles)
Karen Cadiero-Kaplan (San Diego State University)
Patricia H. Hinchey (The Pennsylvania State University)
Edward M. Olivos (University of Oregon)
Margarita I. Berta-Avila (California State University - Sacramento)
Patricia M. Mchatton (University of South Florida - Tampa)

Critical Pedagogy: Voices From the Field

Session Type: Paper Discussion (formerly known as Roundtables)
Time: Monday, March 24 - 12:00p.m. - 12:40p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Broadway Ballroom, Broadway North, 6th Floor

Participants:

Alternative Literacies in Urban Schools: A Longitudinal Study
Veronica Gaylie (University of British Columbia - Okanagan)

Embracing Voice in the Secondary Classroom: Reggaeton as Text and Lived Experience
Estanislado Stan Barrera (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi)
Kim Skinner (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi)

The "Crisis" of Critical Pedagogy and the Potential of Liberal Irony
Trent Boyde Davis (York University)

"Reading the World": Adolescents' Perceptions and Understandings of Social Justice
Salika Lawrence (William Paterson University)
Kelly Mcneal (William Paterson University)
Djanna A. Hill-Brisbane (William Paterson University)

Museums and Social Change: Examining the Intersection of Critical Pedagogy and Museum Education
Marit Dewhurst (Harvard University)

The Impact of Critical Literacy on Student Achievement
Susan Naomi Bernstein (University of Cincinnati)
Mary Pat Raupach (University of Cincinnati)
Deborah Maria Sanchez (University of Cincinnati)

Bilingual Teacher Education Programs and Social Justice

Session Type: Symposium
Time: Monday, March 24 - 4:05p.m. - 5:35p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Lyceum Complex, Alvin Room, 5th Floor

Chair: Edward M. Olivos (University of Oregon)

Discussants: Jose Cintrón (California State University - Sacramento) & Alberto M. Ochoa (San Diego State University)

Participants:

California Commission on Teacher Credentialing for Bilingual Educators: A Critical Policy Research
Karen Cadiero-Kaplan (San Diego State University)

Critical Theory Analysis: Neoliberalism and Teacher Education
Margarita I. Berta-Avila (California State University - Sacramento)

Bilingual Teacher Educators Perspectives on the Status of Teacher Preparation Programs: A Critical Narrative Analysis
Gustavo Gonzalez (San Diego State University)

Democratic Economic and Cultural Integration (DECI) Model: A Meta-Framework for Bilingual Teacher Preparation
Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos (San Diego State University)

Complexities of Learning to Teach for Social Justice

Session Type: Paper Session
Time: Tuesday, March 25 - 8:15a.m. - 9:35a.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Soho Complex, Soho Room, 7th Floor

Chair: Penny S. Bryan (Chapman University)
Discussant: Patricia L. Bullock (The Pennsylvania State University)

Participants:

Reframing Privilege, Power, and Difference for First-Generation College Students Through Justice-Learning: Exploring the Efficacy of One Community-Based Approach
Paige Allison Conley (Mount Mary College) Maria L. Hamlin (Mount Mary College)

Walking Delicately but Staying the Course: Learning to "Speak Back" to Racism in Teacher Education
Fatima Pirbhai-Illich (University of Regina)
Theresa Y. Austin (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)

Social Justice and City Schools: Preservice and In-Service Teachers' Considerations of Progressive Ideals
Diane Gayda Corrigan (Cleveland State University)
Kristien Marquez-Zenkov (Cleveland State University)
Tim Smith (Euclid High School)

Complexities of Working Through/With Resistance to Sexual Identity Issues in Teacher Education: A Case Study
Patricia L. Bullock (The Pennsylvania State University)
Debra M. Freedman (The Pennsylvania State University)

Educating for Human Rights in a Post-9/11 World
Susan R. Katz (University of San Francisco)

Understanding Social Justice Inside Schools

Session Type: Paper Session
Time: Tuesday, March 25 - 12:25p.m. - 1:55p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Majestic Complex, Winter Garden Room, 6th Floor

Chair: Horace R. Hall (DePaul University)
Discussant: Debra A. Pellegrino (University of Scranton)

Participants:

Development of the Attributions for Scholastic Outcomes Scale-Latino (ASO-L)
Rick Sperling (University of Texas - Austin)

Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good? Exclusivity in Socially Just Schools
Martin Scanlan (Marquette University)

Downsized Discourse: Classroom Management, Neoliberalism, and the Shaping of Correct Workplace Attitude
Faith A. Agostinone (Aurora University)

Learning, Community, and Democracy: Beyond School Reform to the Reconstruction of Public Education

Session Type: Interactive Symposium
Time: Tuesday, March 25 - 2:15p.m. - 3:45p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Majestic Complex, Music Box Room, 6th Floor

Chair: Pia I. Wong (California State University - Sacramento)
Discussants: Nilton Bueno Fisher (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) & Sandra Salas (Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro)

Participants:

Learning to Improve Schools and Communities and to Be Citizens: The Citizen School Project in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Luis Armando Gandin (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Participant: Gustavo E. Fischman (Arizona State University)

From Learning in Communities and Schools to Teaching Policymakers and Shapers
Pia I. Wong (California State University - Sacramento)

The Racial Politics of Vouchers: Identity and Subalternity in Unsettling Educational Times
Thomas C. Pedroni (Oakland University)

Constructing Publics Through Collaborative Inquiry and Action
Ronald D. Glass (University of California - Santa Cruz)

Critical Pedagogy as Praxis

Session Type: Symposium

Time: Wednesday, March 26 - 8:15a.m. - 9:45a.m.

Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Astor Ballroom Pre-Function, 7th Floor

Participants:

Mary Catherine Breunig (Brock University)
Barbara A. Beyerbach (SUNY - Oswego)
Penny S. Bryan (Chapman University)
Dana E. Christman (New Mexico State University - Las Cruces)
Theresa Montano (California State University - Northridge)
James F. O'Donnell (New Mexico State University - Las Cruces)
Robert J. Starratt (Boston College)

Contested Imaginaries: Transnational Feminist Reading Practices, Pedagogy, and Ethical Concerns in Reading Muslim Women Post-9/11

Session Type: Symposium
Time: Wednesday, March 26 - 10:35a.m. - 12:05p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Odets Room, 4th Floor

Participants:

Reading Lolita in Times of War: Women's Book Clubs and the Politics of Reception
Catherine Burwell (University of Toronto)

Cartographies of Difference and Pedagogies of Peril: Muslim Girls and Women in Western Young Adult Fiction Novels
Jasmin Zine (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Reading Desire: From Empathy to Estrangement, From Enlightenment to Implication
Lisa K. Taylor (Bishop's University)

Social Justice at the Intersections: Schools, Higher Education, and Society

Session Type: Paper Discussion (formerly known as Roundtables) Time: Thursday, March 27 - 12:25p.m. - 1:05p.m. Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Broadway Ballroom, Broadway North, 6th Floor

Participants:

Coming Out as Social Justice Educators: Conflicts and Dilemmas When Working Toward Civic Schooling Responsibilities
Patricia L. Bullock (The Pennsylvania State University)
Anne L. Slonaker (The Pennsylvania State University - Berks)
Jennifer L. Snow-Gerono (Boise State University)
Incho Lee (The Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg)

Conceptions of Equity and Social Justice: Developing a Rubric to Assess Teacher Candidates' Dispositions Jonathan W. Vare (Winthrop University)
Rebecca Barr Evers (Winthrop University)
Maria Mensik (Winthrop University)

An Analytical Criticism of the Use of a Word: What's Wrong With "Minorities?"
M. Francyne Huckaby (Texas Christian University)

Methods at the Margins
Rachelle Winkle-Wagner (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
Debora Hinderliter Ortloff (Indiana University - Bloomington)
Adrea A. Lawrence (American University)
Cheryl A. Hunter (Indiana University - Bloomington)
Joshua Hunter (Indiana University - Bloomington)
Barbara Dennis Korth (Indiana University - Bloomington)

Professors for Social Justice in Chicago: Toward Civic Responsibility
Susan J. Katz (Roosevelt University)
Diana F. Ryan (Saint Xavier University)

How the Motives of Teach for America Corps Members Can Inform traditional Teacher Education Programs
Megan Blumenreich (The City College of New York - CUNY)
Lori J. Rhodes (Stanford University)

Shallow Visions or Emancipatory Insights? Future Teachers' Beliefs and Experiences With Computing Technology and Male-Centered Computing Culture
Bradley J. Porfilio (Saint Louis University)

Who Are the Experts? Engaging Youth in Participatory Action Research for Educational and Social Transformation

Session Type: Interactive Symposium
Time: Thursday, March 27 - 12:25p.m. - 1:55p.m.
Place: Hilton New York, Gramercy Suite B, 2nd Floor

Chair: Pedro A. Noguera (New York University)
Discussant: James Diego Vigil (University of California - Irvine)

Participants:

Tara Marie Brown (University of Maryland - College Park)
Louie F. Rodriguez (Florida International University)
Yasser Payne (University of Delaware)
David O. Stovall (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Natalia Delgado, J.D. (Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division)
Patricia Sanchez (University of Texas - San Antonio)

A Place at the Table for Marginalized Voices

Session Type: Paper Session
Time: Thursday, March 27 - 4:05p.m. - 5:35p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Cantor Room, 9th Floor

Chair: David W. Stinson (Georgia State University)
Discussant: John R. Harris (Claremont Graduate University)

Participants:

Deconstructing Media Messages: Engaging African American Female Adolescents in Participatory Action Research Through Performance
Anna Robic (University of South Florida - Tampa)
Patricia Alvarez McHatton (University of South Florida - Tampa)

Learning for Social Justice: A Framework for Understanding Critical Insights
Nikola Hobbel (Humboldt State University)
Thandeka K. Chapman (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

The Reporting of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks in American Social Studies Textbooks: A Muslim Perspective
Mohammed Mustafa Saleem (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Michael K. Thomas (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

"I Say Yes and Figure It Out Later": How Epistemology Impacts the Inclusion and Exclusion of Traditionally Marginalized Students
Martin Scanlan (Marquette University)

Uncovering "Innocent" Racism: Educating Teachers for Politically Reflexive and Dialogic Engagement in Local Communities

Session Type: Interactive Symposium
Time: Friday, March 28 - 2:15p.m. - 3:45p.m.
Place: Crowne Plaza Hotel Times Square, Broadway Ballroom, Act III, 4th Floor

Chair: Theresa Y. Austin (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)
Discussant: Jerri Willett (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)

Participants:

When Linguicism Is Permitted by Law: Learning From the "Other"
Yvonne V. Farino (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)

Responding to Racism: A Challenge for Teacher Educators
Fatima Pirbhai-Illich (University of Regina)

Bilingual Paraeducators' Interdisciplinary Learning Through Community Exploration
Theresa Y. Austin (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)

Testing and Assessment to Contest Issues of Linguicism
Patricia C. Paugh (University of Massachusetts - Boston)