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CFP: 35th Ethnography in Education Forum

Ethnographic Imagination AND Screening Scholarship Media

"The Ethnographic Imagination:
Arts, Multimodality, and Pedagogies of the Possible"
 
February 28 – March 1, 2014
Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum

Call for Papers

ONLINE SUBMISSION OPEN: Monday, August 12, 2013
http://www.conftool.com/forum2014/
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2013
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: early November, 2013
REQUIRED PREREGISTRATION FOR PRESENTERS: Monday, December 2, 2013

With the multimodal affordances of today’s digital technologies, aesthetic and symbolic practices are more and more a part of people’s everyday lives the world over. Meanwhile, in schools, aesthetic approaches to learning are too often – increasingly – perceived as "extras" that can be relegated to the margins of the curriculum or eliminated entirely without repercussion. Yet, the arts expand our ways of knowing as surely as ethnography expands our ways of understanding our world.  Indeed, several ethnographic research traditions have explored the pedagogical possibilities of artistic expression and performance, in and out of schools. How do we as educators envision the place of artistic and multimodal expression in our pedagogies? And what roles can we as ethnographers play in exploring and imagining possibilities for creative and aesthetic ways of learning/knowing in classrooms, schools, and learning communities?
 
As the Ethnography in Education Research Forum reaches its 35th year, we invite you to celebrate what is possible in teaching and research when conducted through artistic, multimodal lenses. We welcome the arts in ethnographic research (e.g. ethnographic films, ethnographic poetry) alongside ethnographies of arts education and aesthetic approaches to learning in formal or informal settings. We seek to showcase teachers, researchers, practitioner-researchers, students and artists who demonstrate what is possible in pedagogy through their imagination and creativity, especially in contexts that are less supportive of the arts. We foresee presentations of ethnography and pedagogy in the arts, through the arts, and as art.

Convenor
Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

Coordinators
Holly Link and Hoa Nguyen

Plenary Speakers

Christine Hélot, University of Strasbourg
Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania
Vivian Vasquez, American University
Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Brown University, Emerita

Communities of Inquiry Symposium

Rob Simon and the Teaching to Learn Project, University of Toronto – OISE

About the Ethnography in Education Research Forum
The Ethnography in Education Research Forum, convened by the Center for Urban Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania every year since 1980, is the largest annual meeting of qualitative researchers in education. The Forum has from the beginning excelled in nurturing ethnographic research and researchers in schools. The Forum is known for its friendly and supportive atmosphere for fledgling researchers and for the spirit of relaxed and open dialogue embracing newcomers and experienced researchers alike. Areas of emphasis include: multicultural issues in education, practitioner/teacher/action research, critical and feminist ethnography, ethnographic evaluation in education, language issues in education, uses of ethnography in math and science, and indigenous language revitalization.

For more information about the Ethnography in Education Forum, visit
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum or email cue@gse.upenn.edu

For videos of the 34th Ethnography in Education Research Forum Plenaries, visit
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum/video_library

For proposal submission beginning August 12, 2013, visit
http://www.conftool.com/forum2014/


 
camra at Penn and GSE Films
in collaboration with
the 35th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
present
 
The Second Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival
March 2, 2014
With the proliferation of new media technologies as well as the recent growth of digital humanities centers, we have witnessed a number of debates that challenge traditional modes of research and scholarship. For camra, participating in these debates is imperative because they illuminate the heart of what we do as scholars, media makers, and public intellectuals. We seek to push the boundaries of research and media, developing new ways of knowing through audiovisual forms of expression. We aim to create an aesthetic sensibility that destabilizes previously held notions of what differentiates art from scholarship. Thus, we ask the following questions:
What are the possibilities that advances in media offer for knowledge production? What are the methods and strategies that media makers and academics share in their work? What are the ways in which academics can and should integrate rigorous media production in their research?

camra at Penn invites scholars, media-makers, students and educators to explore these questions at the Second Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. We welcome submissions that explore the relation between social theory, pedagogy, and aesthetics using images and sound in the form of film, soundscapes and recordings, blogs, websites, eBooks, animation, photographs, and other media forms.
Online submissions open August 12, 2013.
The Deadline for Submission is October 1, 2013.

For submission guidelines and more information about camra and the festival, visit
www.camrapenn.org or http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum/screening_scholarship.
Please contact us through email at
ssmf@camrapenn.org.

Posted: September 3, 2013, 8:15 AM