[URBANTH-L]Ethnography Forum Call for Papers

[cue at gse.upenn.edu]

29th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum

“Going Public with Ethnography in Education”

February 29 and March 1, 2008

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

***CALL for PAPERS***

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2007
NOTIFICATION: Early November 2007
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE: Early January 2008

What counts as learning?  In the current public discourse of ever-narrowing
definitions of learning, achievement, and educational value, ethnographic
research offers powerful evidence that not everything that matters is being
counted.  Ethnographers of education around the world continue to reveal the
importance and complexity of social, cultural, and linguistic life in schools,
of processes of learning, and of the intricate relationships upon which it
depends.  How can we make accounts of this complexity heard within a popular
discourse and public policy that seem ever more committed to simplifying
definitions and solutions?  With all that we know and continue to discover
through ethnography in education, how do we go public?  How do we engage with
the media, with popular discourse, and with public policy on burning social and
educational issues in ways that will influence what counts as learning and what
counts as research?	

	The Ethnography in Education Research Forum invites papers that explore and
expand upon what counts as learning and achievement, what counts as research and
gets counted as research, and what methods of data analysis and representation
can be used to communicate findings about the complex and processual nature of
learning and education to audiences outside, as well as inside, the academy.


Plenary Speakers:
Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University
Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego

Saturday Evening Panel: “Ethnographic data analysis, past-present-future: A chat
with the SHLEPPERS”
Frederick Erickson, University of California, Los Angeles
Ray McDermott, Stanford University
Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego
Jeffrey Shultz, Arcadia University

All proposals may be submitted online beginning August 15:
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 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 research, 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 research, 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. Summary (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.

Special Instruction for Group Sessions
Submit Summary 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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Center for Urban Ethnography
Ethnography in Education Research Forum
3700 Walnut St. 
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
215-898-3273