2020 MIDWINTER CONFERENCE
Storying Communities
February 21-23, 2020 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Ana Christina da Silva, Chair chris.dasilva@vanderbilt.edu |
How do communities develop? What role do communities play in social action, resistance, and transformation? What roles do community narratives have as forms of social action, resistance, and transformation?
Within the current political climate, when injustice, hatred, and hostility toward vulnerable populations have become normalized, and even in some cases, have become policy or law, it takes activism and imagination to envision new possibilities for resistance and transformation. The NCTEAR 2020 conference invites participants to consider the power and potential of community-based scholarship, community-related narratives, public engagement, and community activism. Whether papers are inspired by Freirian perspectives (e.g., conscientização and praxis), by other critical traditions (e.g., feminist, Critical Race Theory, or poststructural theories), or by the discursive and narrative analysis of community stories, we invite work that takes up different approaches to social justice, narrative, creative strategies, and the arts—diverse ways to critically engage with the world and one’s (changing) position(s) in it. Through our presentations and discussions we will seek to gain insight into ways to engage community-based participatory research, new pedagogies, and narrative inquiry that accent trust, power, dialogue, community capacity building, and collaborative inquiry toward the goal of social change.
As such, we invite papers addressing the following questions:
Presenters are encouraged to explore answers to these questions and others from multiple contexts of pre-K-16 English language arts education and literacy research, including afterschool and community settings, students whose first language is other than English, etc. Please consider submitting a proposal for NCTEAR 2020, attending the conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, on February 21-23, and contributing to these conversations. The planning committee welcomes proposals for individual papers, symposia, work-in-progress roundtables, and alternative format sessions. A description of each type of session can be found below. We welcome proposals representing a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We invite proposals that focus on empirical research as well as conceptual/theoretical work.
Submission Process
Proposals are due by October 30, 2019 at 11:59 PM PST. To submit your proposals, please go to https://tinyurl.com/nctear2020 (or use this direct url: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nctear2020). To submit via the Easy Chair system, you’ll first need to create an account. Once logged in, you’ll be able to see the NCTEAR 2020 page and use the “enter as an author” link to submit your proposal.
More Information on the 2020 Call for Proposals
Within the current political climate, when injustice, hatred, and hostility toward vulnerable populations have become normalized, and even in some cases, have become policy or law, it takes activism and imagination to envision new possibilities for resistance and transformation. The NCTEAR 2020 conference invites participants to consider the power and potential of community-based scholarship, community-related narratives, public engagement, and community activism. Whether papers are inspired by Freirian perspectives (e.g., conscientização and praxis), by other critical traditions (e.g., feminist, Critical Race Theory, or poststructural theories), or by the discursive and narrative analysis of community stories, we invite work that takes up different approaches to social justice, narrative, creative strategies, and the arts—diverse ways to critically engage with the world and one’s (changing) position(s) in it. Through our presentations and discussions we will seek to gain insight into ways to engage community-based participatory research, new pedagogies, and narrative inquiry that accent trust, power, dialogue, community capacity building, and collaborative inquiry toward the goal of social change.
As such, we invite papers addressing the following questions:
- What are the interrelationships between stories and community, learning, language, and identity?
- What are the community-based historical, political, social, theoretical, cultural, and educational influences that shape schooling for all students?
- How can we study the relationships between community place, space, language, ethnicity, race and culture across diverse settings (e.g. schools, households, communities) from an asset rather than a subtractive or deficit approach?
- How can we come to understand the complexity of the idea of community?
- What are the affordances of a community-based perspective on thinking and learning?
- How can we come to understand how to provoke forms of learning and the level of the community?
- How can we develop new methodologies for working with communities that honors and brings into consideration the value of the community?
- How can we develop methods for mapping learning in a community?
Presenters are encouraged to explore answers to these questions and others from multiple contexts of pre-K-16 English language arts education and literacy research, including afterschool and community settings, students whose first language is other than English, etc. Please consider submitting a proposal for NCTEAR 2020, attending the conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, on February 21-23, and contributing to these conversations. The planning committee welcomes proposals for individual papers, symposia, work-in-progress roundtables, and alternative format sessions. A description of each type of session can be found below. We welcome proposals representing a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We invite proposals that focus on empirical research as well as conceptual/theoretical work.
Submission Process
Proposals are due by October 30, 2019 at 11:59 PM PST. To submit your proposals, please go to https://tinyurl.com/nctear2020 (or use this direct url: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nctear2020). To submit via the Easy Chair system, you’ll first need to create an account. Once logged in, you’ll be able to see the NCTEAR 2020 page and use the “enter as an author” link to submit your proposal.
More Information on the 2020 Call for Proposals