QUIG Conference on Qualitative Research in Education

Peter Smagorinsky (psmagorinsky who-is-at OU.EDU)
Mon, 18 May 1998 16:26:31 -0500

The QUIG Conference on Qualitative Research in Education

January 8-10, 1999
The University of Georgia
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
Athens, Georgia

CALL for PROPOSALS

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Shirley Brice Heath, Professor
Stanford University

Dr. Luis Moll, Professor
University of Arizona

Conference Theme

"Getting It Together:
The Purposes, Practices, and Problems of Collaborative Research"

For the 1999 QUIG Conference, we invite papers that address
issues related to collaborative research. Both of our keynote
speakers are renowned ethnographers. Professor Heath's book Ways
with Words and her subsequent writing have helped us to learn
more about family literacy and the impact of community culture on
children's ways of learning. Professor Moll's work with teachers,
students, and families in the Latino barrios of Tucson has
broadened our understanding of the "funds of knowledge" within
communities that affect children's school experiences. Professors
Heath and Moll have collaborated with teachers and university
colleagues, and they have written about the processes of
collaboration. We hope that conference proposals related to the
theme will raise questions about the purposes, practices, and
problems involved in collaborative inquiry.

Here are some questions to consider:
Why should we collaborate?
How do we define the purpose of collaboration?
Who gets to ask the questions raised in collaborative
research projects?
Who gets to determine what counts as data?
How can we talk together about children, learning, schools,
and societal issues as we collaborate?
How will we collectively analyze and interpret data?
How do we negotiate the difficulties of writing together,
and resolve some of the dilemmas involved in reporting what
we have learned?
What problems do we face when we collaborate?
How do we deal with those problems?

Proposals may report the findings of particular studies, and we
also encourage proposals on topics not related directly to the
theme, such as teaching qualitative methods, writing about
qualitative research, traditions of qualitative inquiry, and
personal journeys as researchers.

Deadline for Receipt of Proposals:
June 22, 1998

What to Submit:

1. Three copies of your proposal
2. A stamped, self-addressed postcard
3. A stamped, self-addressed business-size envelope

Format for Proposals:

Specify what format you want:

1. Paper Presentation (30 minutes total time, with 2
presentations per session)
2. Panel (1 hour total)
3. Round table (1 hour total)
4. Workshop (1-3 hours total; describe the nature of the
workshop and propose a time length of 1, 2, or 3 hours)

Title (no longer than 40 characters, including spaces)

3 key words to describe your topic

Name(s), affiliation(s), and mailing address(es) of Presenter(s)

FAX number(s) and e-mail address(es)

Telephone number(s) [work/home]

Audio-visual equipment request: please indicate the type of
equipment needed for your presentation (e.g., VCR & monitor,
overhead projector)

Summary: no more than 2 pages
Include all of the following: Purposes of your presentation,
theoretical frame, research methods, findings, format for
presentation, and special space requests

Note: Registration fees for the 1998 conference were $115
($135 late) and $75 for students ($95 late);
registration forms are mailed in October.

Direct inquiries and mail proposal to:
Dr. H. James McLaughlin
QUIG Conference Chair
427 Aderhold Hall
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: 760-542-5469
FAX: 706-542-4277
E-mail: jmcl who-is-at coe.uga.edu

JoBeth Allen
Language Education
University of Georgia
125 Aderhold
Athens, GA 30602
jobethal who-is-at uga.cc.uga.edu