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AERA 2016 Qualitative Research-SIG Call for Proposals
April 8-April 12
Washington, DC
Conference Theme: Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies
Submission Deadline: July 22, 2015 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time
Call Details:
AERA’s theme this year encourages submissions that consider the role of
scholars in contributing to public debate, understanding, and practice in the
United States and beyond. The 2016 annual meeting seeks to showcase how
civic engagement and public scholarship might serve to improve education and
the public good more generally. Given the theme of the 2016 meeting, we
welcome submissions that highlight how qualitative methodologies may serve to
support and expand on the ways in which we might engage in public scholarship.
Specifically, the Qualitative Research SIG invites papers that foreground
discussions of qualitative methodology and analysis. Qualitative Research
includes a wide range of methodological, theoretical, and analytic approaches to
education research, including but not limited to interpretive, critical, poststructural, and posthumanist frameworks and the multitude of approaches
produced from working at these intersections.
The Qualitative Research SIG strongly encourages submissions that emphasize
methodologically innovative approaches, which re-imagine and expand how
qualitative research might serve to produce public scholarship and function (at
the level of methodology) to generate public dialogue. Rather than take the
notion of “public” for granted, submissions might also consider: How might
notions of ‘public scholarship’ be theorized and actualized at the level of
methodology? What does it look like to do qualitative research that seeks to
improve education and the public good? More generally, how might we continue
to envision our contributions to the future of education and qualitative research?
We also encourage submissions that challenge methodological orthodoxy and
help us transgress and push the boundaries of qualitative inquiry. While
proposals that address the yearly theme are encouraged, high quality proposals
on all topics that make contributions to qualitative research methodologies are
welcomed.
We invite scholars from all divisions and SIGs to submit proposals. The AERA
online submission system is now open, and details about the formal call for
proposals and the July 22, 2015 deadline can be found at
http://www.aera.net/EventsMeetings/tabid/10063/Default.aspx.
Proposals for papers, posters, roundtables, and symposia/sessions are invited,
and innovative session designs are encouraged. In order to accommodate
flexibility in program decisions, please select all of the formats in which you
would be willing to present your work. Every year there are far more spots
available for poster presentations and roundtable papers than individual papers
and symposia. Please also note that ‘working group roundtables’ and ‘structured
poster sessions’ count as symposia (even though they are named to suggest
otherwise), and thus compete against numerous other proposed sessions for a
small number of slots. Both paper and session submissions must not
identify the author(s) in any way.
Please share this call for proposals with all who may be interested. The number
of proposals and the size of our active membership determine the number of
sessions allocated to each SIG. Please consider our SIG as a place to share
your work and renew your SIG membership when you submit your proposals.
Encourage students and colleagues to join our SIG, too. All information about the
annual meeting can be found at http://www.aera.net.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Jessica Nina Lester & D. Eric Archer
AERA Qualitative SIG Program Co-Chairs
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Dr. Jessica Nina Lester
Assistant Professor of Inquiry Methodology
Indiana University
jnlester@indiana.edu
Dr. D. Eric Archer
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Western Michigan University
eric.archer@wmich.edu