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Subject: we need candidates
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The Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research
and Scholarship in Learning Technologies
Nominations are now open for the Year 2000 Jan Hawkins Award of Division C
of the American Educational Research Association. The award carries a
stipend of
$500 and the expectation that the award winner will present a talk at AERA
in the following year. The award recognizes a program of work that:
* provides powerful new ways to think about research with technologies in
contexts of learning and education (e.g., design experiments);
* critically analyzes appropriate roles for technologies in learning and
education;
* strikes an effective balance between inventing important new approaches to
K-12 learning with technologies and respecting the contextual demands on
participants in learning environments (e.g., this kind of work may be
exemplified in participatory design methods with participants that evolve
the properties of the new technologies in-situ);
* shows profound respect for the people and institutions that participate in
research studies utilizing technologies for learning and education, i.e.,
carefully appraising how participants in computer-supported learning
environments make sense of the situation and tools provided by computers and
other technologies;
* uses technology to bring about broad improvements in educational systems
with a focus on issues of diversity, equity, and learning for all; and
* are early career contributions with the above orientations (the award will
emphasize recognition for those individuals who are at the pre-tenure stage
in their academic careers, or pre-tenure-level equivalents if they work in
non-university, research-focused institutions)
As a developmental psychologist with a cognitive, cultural, and
social-interactionist orientation, Dr. Jan Hawkins came to be known in her
research studies, publications, and broad advisory work as a model for
respectful, humanistic conceptions of appropriate roles for using technology
in the ecology of K-12 learning environments. Her work illustrates the
important balance that can be achieved in recognizing the innovative,
emergent properties of new technologies while nonetheless respecting the
individuals and conditions of the learning environments in which these new
technologies might lead to new human practices. She also was concerned with
how complex social systems interact with emerging technologies in ways that
provide or prevent access to information for various groups of people based
on gender, race, and cultural and ethnic background. Her publications often
helped better educate researchers, practitioners, and policy makers alike to
engage in critical thinking about technologies and learning, rather than
seek it as a panacea or avoid it as a deterministic influence. She was also
exemplary in her nurturing of young research scholars in learning
technologies, and has been a model for them with her research and leadership
contributions. The recipient of the award need not belong to Division C.
Any member of Division C may make a nomination, including a self-nomination.
The nominator should send a letter containing: (a) the complete bibliographic
citation of a single publication within the last two years designated by
the nominator as illustrative or representative of the nominee's larger
research program, (b) complete bibliographic citations of up to five
additional relevant
publications of the nominee within the last three years (or in press), (c) a
supporting statement of no more than 300 words, and (d) vita of the nominee.
The nominator should also submit copies of the representative publications.
The submission deadline is December 31, 1999. Please send all nominations
(including self-nominations) to: Allan Collins, 135 Cedar St., Lexington MA
02421-6516. For additional information and queries, contact Allan Collins
by e-mail at collins@bbn.com
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