Call for Proposals: 4th Annual Cultural Studies in Education Conference April 10-11, 2015, “Pedagogies of Power: Mobilizing Community Ways of Knowing, Being, and Teaching”

4th Annual Cultural Studies in Education Conference

April 10-11, 2015

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

“Pedagogies of Power: Mobilizing Community Ways of

Knowing, Being, and Teaching”

Hosted by:

The Cultural Studies in Education Graduate Student Council

The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Cultural Studies in Education Program

The University of Texas’ Cultural Studies in Education Graduate Student Council is proud to announce the 4th annual Cultural Studies in Education Conference. The

theme, “Pedagogies of Power: Mobilizing Community Ways of Knowing, Being,and Teaching,” aims to draw attention to the array of powerful pedagogical practices being deployed within diverse educational community spaces in and

outside of traditional schooling institutions. Knowing, being, and teaching are all transformative processes that require critical understandings of ourselves in relation to our communities. 

This conference seeks to explore how liberatory teaching and learning practices mobilize communities to work together for social justice. We welcome proposals from diverse fields to provide insights on your work as a teacher, researcher, activist, and community leader. In light of the social justice

movements across the United States, Mexico, and beyond, we believe it is a critical time to consider the following questions:

1. What does empowerment look like in your field/area of work, community, or

educational space?

2. How can we reconceive education as a communal rather than individual endeavor?

3. How can acts of inspiration, collaboration, solidarity, and courage support mobilization efforts that promote these pedagogies of power in our educational communities?

This conference is intended to provide a space for students, and community members and organizations to present research focusing on education. It is also intended to provide students an opportunity to gain experience in the process of

submitting, preparing, and presenting research at an academic conference. Most importantly, the conference aims to support all participants in all capacities, whether they are emotional, spiritual, and/or academic.

We encourage the examination of the social, cultural, political, economic, historical, linguistic, and psychological influences in educational contexts from those involved in education in any form. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Emancipatory education

• New Common School movement

• Democratization and democracy in education

• Effects/implications of neoliberal movement/ideologies on pedagogy

• Student/community activist movements and organizing

• Youth popular culture(s)

• Immigrant youth, their families, and communities

• Identity constructions

• Disability and education

• Physical education

• Arts education

• Literature and education

• Decolonial/postcolonial epistemologies

• Educational programs within communities

• Adult/continuing education

Guidelines for Proposal Submission Proposals may be submitted via email (utaustincse@gmail.com) by 11:59 P.M.

CST on February 14, 2015. Please include the following information in your proposal: Title, abstract (150-250) words, presentation format, equipment, and/or accommodations needed for the presentation.

You may present your research in one of the following formats:

• A course paper you intend to expand as a conference paper or to submit for

publication to as a journal article

• A paper being presented at an upcoming conference (use this space to practice)

• A draft of a chapter from your dissertation

• An idea you seek to develop and/or incorporate to your research

• A workshop in which participants explore topics related to theme of the conference

• A multimedia presentation

• Artistic or creative responses to the questions and topics listed above

• A roundtable where you discuss one or more of the proposed topics

This list is partial and is intended to provide suggestions on presentation formats. Be sure to include the format of your presentation in your proposal abstract.

Information about proposal status and any other pertaining conference information will be sent via email by March 7, 2015.