QUIG Conference on Qualitative Research in Education
Peter Smagorinsky (smago who-is-at peachnet.campus.mci.net)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:08:01 -0400
>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