AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (AESA) Call for proposals for the 2013 Annual Meeting Oct. 30-Nov. 3, The Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (AESA)


Call for proposals for the 2013 Annual Meeting


Oct. 30-Nov. 3, The Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD

GENERAL CALL

The AESA Program Committee for 2013 invites proposals on all topics related to the broad field of educational studies including Social Foundations of Education, its traditional scholarly domain. Proposals may be submitted for individual papers, panels, and alternative format sessions before and on April 5, 2013. The committee welcomes proposals from a full range of theoretical, disciplinary, and interdisciplinary perspectives that include the following educational emphases:

•                Social foundations of education

•                Cultural studies of education

•                Curriculum theory and curriculum studies

•                Comparative and international education studies

•                Educational policy and leadership

Especially welcome are proposals that bring together collaborations across academic and other educational institutions and that are specifically inter-and cross-disciplinary. While all proposals of AESA quality are very welcome, especially encouraged are those that specifically address this year’s theme (see below)—these will be a highlighted stream in the program.

SUBMISSION

All proposals must be submitted electronically to the Online Conference System (OCS) via the AESA website. It opens March 1, 2013 (5:00pm EST); every attempt will be made to close the system on April 5, 2013 (12:59pm EST). If any general extension is granted, it will be announced on the AESA website and be very limited. AESA participants should plan ahead.

ABOUT AESA (Mission Statement)

The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) was established in 1968 as an international learned society for students, teachers, research scholars, and administrators who are interested in the foundations of education. AESA is a society primarily comprised of college and university professors and students who teach and research in the field of education utilizing one or more of the liberal arts disciplines of philosophy, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, or economics as well as comparative/international and cultural studies. The purpose of social foundations study is to bring intellectual resources derived from these areas to bear in developing interpretive, normative, and critical perspectives in education, both inside of and outside of schools.

THEME 2013
 Risk and the New Spaces of Collaboration

This topic takes up the challenges of the last few years of AESA conference themes and presentations, asking us to consider new forms of connection and disconnection in face-to-face and/or technologically-mediated relationships and communities.  If our intention in preparing teacher educators and intervening in educational policy is to not replicate the problems of the “barred rooms” Bernice Johnson Reagon warned against in her argument for coalition politics or to not stay on the “opposite river bank,” as Gloria Anzaldúa urges, how can we teach and learn toward these risks of connection, difference, and hospitality?

In a globalizing and increasingly digitally connected world, new opportunities of both connection and disconnection multiply, even as older forms of both continue as well.  This theme asks us to engage these challenges in ways that cross boundaries and push against comforting networks of association, or at least make an effort to do so. Without risk, how do we as educators in the 21^st century work to engage populations of teachers who don’t share identities with their students? How do we as educators collaborate across differences with colleagues with whom we may not share backgrounds, home languages, social class, gender, race, and sexuality?  How do we situate ourselves globally and locally, in human and nonhuman networks of responsibility, even those that are challenging or remote, as we educate and learn? 

Submissions might engage border crossing pedagogies, education and justice, collaborative school improvement projects, online pedagogies, global teaching and learning coalitions, and/or place-based or environmental educational initiatives, among others.

INFORMATION

For more information about AESA and the conference, email Cris Mayo at aesa13conference@gmail.com (NOTE: questions and information, only—NO submissions to this address).

Please make note of the following:

1.             Membership in the organization is REQUIRED for all presenters, along with conference registration.

2.             The cut-off date for pre-registration is October 15th.

3.             Consider donating to the Grad Student Fund when you become a member/register for the conference.

This year’s program committee will number about 50 members. Assisting the chair in program planning is an advisory group: Xiuying “Sophy” Cai (Assistant to the Chair), Jolie Medina, Hilton Kelly, and Anjale Welton.