7/25/2008 - CESJ News - Call for Proposals

Dear CESJ Members,

As you all know the deadline for AERA submissions is fast approaching. The number of blocks that we are provided depends on the total number of proposals received. In other words, the more proposals we receive the more sessions we will be able to sponsor. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your own proposal and share our call for proposals with other colleagues who may be doing similar work. We want to ensure that each proposal receives feedback from people knowledgeable in our areas. Thus, it is important for us to have a wide range of reviewers so that we can better match the reviewers with the proposal topics. We commit to having three reviewers for every proposal. Given that we are hoping for a significant increase in the number of submissions, we will be in need of as many reviewers as possible. Another commitment the SIG has made is for each of the session to be well supported by SIG members. In keeping with the mission of our SIG, we encourage each of you to become involved as a reviewer, chair, or discussant, or by simply attending sessions in which you are interested.

The members of this Special Interest Group are committed to teach, promote, and implement the principles of critical pedagogy in order to establish an educational movement grounded in the struggle for social and environmental justice, human rights and economic democracy (see SIG website at http://www.cesj.org/about/aboutcesj.htm).

To that end, we are looking for proposals that:

• Consists of research methodologies that are particularly suited to social justice work (e.g., Participatory Action Research, narrative, portraiture, etc…);
• Includes multiple voices and stakeholders;
• Examines educational issues from an ecological perspective that involves schools, youth, families, and communities (this is especially significant given them theme of this year’s conference); and,
• Employs alternative presentation formats (e.g., performance, interactive methods that include audience participation such as Reader’s Theatre, presents multiple voices).

We look forward to seeing you at AERA.

Patricia Alvarez McHatton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, EDU162
Tampa, FL 33620
813.974.9595 (office)
813.974.5542 (fax)
McHatton@tempest.coedu.usf.edu