Call For Papers
AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (AESA)
Call for proposals for the 2012 Annual Meeting
October 31-November 4
The Grand Hyatt Seattle
GENERAL CALL
The AESA Program Committee for 2012 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, symposia, and alternative format sessions before and on April 1, 2012. 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—these will be a highlighted stream in the program.
THE THEME FOR 2012 IS THIS:
Connections With/In Differences: Valuing Traditional and New Diversities for Educational Reform. A statement elaborating the theme is presented below in the Call.
SUBMISSION
All proposals must be submitted electronically to the Online Conference System (OCS) via the AESA website. It opens March 1, 2012 (5:00pm EST); every attempt will be made to close the system on April 1, 2012 (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 2012
Connections With/In Differences: Valuing Traditional and New Diversities for Educational Reform
Across decades of its organization, AESA members have valued diversity, in fact the initial organization reflected a desire to be distinct from and highlight forms of educational scholarship that in the late sixties had become marginalized. How interesting is this? AESA was formed as an organization based in difference.
The 2012 theme desires to support what has been a tradition of difference, and while surely valuing what have become more traditional categories of scholarship accepted in academic and other domains, seeks to point to new conceptions, perhaps of categories themselves. The conceptual and empirical question becomes what counts as diversity and how does the category of difference relate.
The theme suggests the following ‘connections with/in differences’ of diversities:
- Relationships and Activisms
- Collectivities and Individuals
- They and Us
- Ethics and Justice
The starting point of these connections is the idea of difference itself: this is a challenge to a dominant western, modern order in which ‘the same’ rather than difference is the initiation—and thus the form within which anything further can take place.
Given the AESA mission statement, differences include disciplinary traditions, scholarly and research methodologies and genres, as well as sites of investigation and inquiry. Differences also include those traditionally ‘critical’ such as race, class, and gender but extend beyond these also into the kinds of connections named above. AESA members know too that generating and applying knowledge help in reform but this call suggests that ‘all that we can know’ sometimes is not sufficient to engender the kinds of changes needed for broad social justice. As the last connection implies, justice may well require moral commitment. The late Richard Rorty took this general idea as his ethical basis: hope for a better world, one with less (and less and less) harm for more people. Not a bad place to start.
INFORMATION
For more information about AESA and the conference, email Lynda Stone at lstone@email.unc.edu.
Please make note of the following:
- Membership in the organization is REQUIRED for all presenters, along with conference registration.
- The cut-off date for pre-registration is October 15th.
- 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: Amy Senta (Assistant to the Chair), Ashley Boyd-Davis, Hilton Kelly, Maike Philipsen, and Luis Urrieta.
Call For Proposals
The OSC submission system is now closed but will reopen March 1, 2012 at 5:00pm EST.
Proposal Overview
The AESA Program Committee invites proposals on all topics relevant to the Social Foundations of Education for the 2011 annual conference. Proposals may be submitted for individual papers, panels, symposia and alternative format sessions until April 1, 2012. We welcome papers from a full range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives (including history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies) and from those working in a number of interrelated fields, including:
- the foundations of education,
- the cultural studies of education,
- curriculum theory and curriculum studies,
- comparitive education,
- educational policy, and
- educational leadership.
We encourage proposals for symposia and panels that bring together papers within a single discipline or field, as well as those that bring together papers across disciplines and fields. The theme for this year’s annual meeting is Connections With/In Differences: Valuing Traditional and New Diversities for Educational Reform. Papers addressing other themes and topics are also welcome.
Any questions should be directed to:
Lynda Stone
EMAIL
All proposals must be submitted electronically.
SUBMIT PROPOSALS HERE
Proposal Guidelines
Proposal Criteria and Length:
Proposal submissions should provide a brief summary of the paper, symposium, panel or alternative session which the reviewers will use to assess its merits. Your summary should include (as applicable):
- objectives/purposes,
- context,
- methods,
- arguments/conclusions, and,
- importance/relevance.
Individual paper and symposium submissions are blind reviewed and thus should be submitted without any references to identify the authors. Proposals for individual papers should not exceed 1000 words (excluding references). Proposals for all other sessions should not exceed 1500 words (excluding references).
Information to be included:
In addition to the title of the paper or session and the proposal, include the name, institutional affiliation, email address, and telephone number of each participant. (The body of the proposal, however, should not include any identifying information.)
Review process:
All proposals will be read by multiple reviewers with no access to identifying information about the author(s). Decisions as to acceptance will be based on the program committee’s evaluations and recommendations. Only the person submitting the proposal will be notified as to whether the proposal has been accepted. In the case of co-authored papers, panels, symposia, or alternative sessions with multiple participants, it will be the responsibility of the person who has submitted the proposal to notify the other participants regarding the status of the proposal.
Proposal Categories
Individual Paper:
The program committee welcomes individual paper proposals. Once accepted, papers will be grouped together around common or overlapping themes, in the form of a symposium, with an assigned chair and/or discussant. Presenters will have approximately 20 minutes to read, summarize, or discuss their individual papers. Completed papers should be submitted to chairs and discussants by September 16, 2012.
Symposium:
A symposium typically is composed of three to five participants (who present or summarize and discuss papers), as well as a chair and a discussant. Each symposium is organized around a common theme. A symposium proposal should include the title of the symposium, a brief (one- or two-paragraph) overview of the symposium theme, and the title and brief description of each paper. Most symposia will be allocated 90 minutes on the program. Time should be allowed for an introduction of the symposium by the chair, a presentation of the papers, comments by the discussant, and audience questions and involvement. Final symposia papers should be submitted to chairs and discussants by September 16, 2012.
Panel:
A panel typically is composed of three to six participants who discuss their scholarly work in the format of a dialogue on a topic or theme related to the conference theme. Usually, each panelist is given 10–15 minutes to discuss the topic, present theoretical ideas, and/or point to relevant research. A chair (identified in the proposal by scholarly contribution) introduces the panel and frames the issues and questions that will be addressed. In addition to the chair, we encourage organizers of panels to include a discussant who responds to the comments of the panelists. Panels will be allocated 90 minutes on the program. The chair is responsible for insuring that participants adhere to time limits.
Alternative Format and Special Interest:
Alternative proposals that do not fit into the above categories, such as performances, video and multimedia presentations, and round-table dialogues, are encouraged. We also welcome proposals for the organization of special interest groups. Alternative format proposals should include information on the session’s topic, content, approach or purpose, as well as the roles to be played by the participants.
Instructions for submitting your proposal through OCS
If you find these directions confusing, simply click HERE
1. If you registered last year, simply enter your username and password and then select “AESA 2011”. Please skip forward to #6 of these instructions. If you are registering for the first time, select “AESA 2011”. You will be directed to a new page where you will need to select “AESA 2011” again.
2. Fill in the registration form.
3. At the bottom of the page, please check the box marked “author” unless you’ve been contacted and told to do otherwise.
4. Once you have finished, select “Create” at the bottom of the page.
5. Select “Proposal Submission”.
6. STEP 1: Select “General Papers” for the conference track, and go through the checklist, then select “Save and Continue."
7. STEP 2: Follow the instructions on the page. Include or verify your name and information here as author or presenter. Also please include all co-authors or presenters and their information by selecting "Add Authors". Next, select submission type - Single Presentation, Synopsium, Panel or Alternative Session. Finally, you will include a title and a 150 word abstract here (not to be confused with the proposal).
Please respect the reviewers and the review process by keeping abstracts to 150 words maximum. Don't forget to include some key word descriptors of your proposed paper or session before selecting "save and continue".
8. STEP 3: Upload your proposal (limited to 500 words for a single paper and 1500 for synopsium submissions) by selecting “browse” and choosing the correct file from your computer. Select “Save and Continue”. You should see your file on the screen; select “Save and Continue” again.
9. If you have supplementary files, upload them now as well. When you are done uploading, select “Save and Continue”.
10. Select “Finish Submission”.
You should receive a confirmation email. If you do not, please contact Carolyn Vander Schee and we will sort it out.
Please note that registering for the online submission system does not register you for the Conference. If you haven’t already, you can register for the conference HERE.
General Info
Information about the 2012 AESA Conference will be available shortly.
Registration
Remember that attendance at the annual conference also requires membership in AESA. We encourage you to renew or initiate your membership and register for the 2011 conference in advance. There will be NO internet access at registration this year, so if you plan to pay with a credit card, you MUST do this in advance. You will be able to register onsite with cash and checks.
The registration table will open from 5:00 - 7:00pm on Wednesday, November 2nd and from 8:00am - 5:00pm on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday November 5th the registration table will be open from 8am - 3pm. The registration table will NOT be open on Sunday morning. If you are arriving late or only coming on Sunday you will need to make arrangements to pick up your materials and register for the conference in advance. If you have questions about registration or membership, contact John Petrovic.
If you register online after October 27th please bring your registration form and paypal receipt with you so that you can be added to the membership role on site.
The hotel reservation system for AESA in St. Louis will be open until October 1st or until our block of rooms is filled. We still have plenty of rooms available and encourage you to make your plans now. We hope you will all attend this year’s conference, and with that, we want to note how important it is to stay at the conference hotel. Our contract specifies the number of room nights we must generate in order to avoid stiff penalties (thousands of dollars), so we encourage members to take advantage of the conference hotel rates. If you have any problems securing a room, contact Sandra Spickard Prettyman.
