NCTEAR

Lisa Scherff and Carol Donovan are planning an edited book proposal based on papers and research presented at the conference. Like the conference, the book will focus on The Peril and Promise of Place in Literacy Research. In addition to inviting chapter submissions from our keynote and pre-conference speakers, we would like to invite all conference participants to submit chapter proposals. Proposals will be reviewed and accepted based on not only the quality of the research, but also the needs and direction of the emerging volume.

We invite submissions that focus on the ways that "place" informs and influences literacy teaching and learning. In particular, we invite chapters that consider:

• theoretical issues related to place in literacy research,
• methodological issues involved in researching place and literacy education,
• how place impacts children’s school experiences (both in/out of school experiences),
• affordances and challenges of place, and
• practical implications of place for teaching and learning.

Each two-page proposal should include the following:

• working title,
• overview of the chapter,
• description of the methodology used and data to be presented (if the chapter reports on an empirical study), and
• findings and/or conclusions.

If a complete paper is available, this should be submitted in place of the two-page proposal.

Please submit two-page proposals and draft chapters to Lisa Scherff at escherff@fsu.edu by March 15, 2012.