NCTE Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference
February 21-23, 2003
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Teaching and Researching Across Color Lines:
Literacies, Pedagogies, and the Politics of Difference
W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that the problem of the Twentieth Century is the
problem of the Color-Line. The problem survives. For Lani Guinier and
Gerald Torres, racially marginalized groups are a society’s miner’s canary.
Like the distress of the caged finch taken into the mines, the plight of
these social groups signal an endemic danger that threatens us all. Guinier
and Torres call for a political race project that is not only diagnostica
project that pays attention to the canary’s critiquebut that is also
activist. They imagine a "new language to discuss race, in order to rebuild
a progressive democratic movement led by people of color but joined by others."
This year’s Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference will focus on race
and difference and will explore how these inform our perspectives and
practices as educators and researchers. The conference builds on and
extends past conferences that have explored race and language; new
literacies; and the workings of power in our pedagogies and institutions,
in our research methods and reports. The 2003 conference invites proposals
that explore dimensions of language and literacy practices in schools
through questions such as the following:
· How can research with racially marginalized groups generate a
critique of our research methodologies and pedagogies?
· How can research with racially marginalized groups inform our
research and classroom practices with dominant groups?
· How do we account for the globalization of racism in our research
and classroom practices?
· How can examinations of whiteness in literacy research and
classroom practices help teachers and students question power relations in
schooling and society?
· How do race, emerging media technologies, literacy learning, and
power, relate?
· How do we prepare teachers to take up the racial dimensions of
reading, writing, and oral language in classrooms?
While the conference explores what we can learn by putting race at the
center of our pedagogical and methodological inquiries, we also recognize a
broader "politics of difference." The movement between discussions of race
and other differences that make a difference is unavoidable and desirable,
and will characterize the conference.
Keynote Speakers Include the Following:
Gloria Ladson-Billings, author of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of
African-American Children and Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New
Teachers in Diverse Classrooms
Julie Landsman, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race and Basic Needs:
A Year with Street Kids in a City School
Donaldo Macedo, author of Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not
Allowed to Know, and, with Lilia Bartolome, Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond
the Politics of Tolerance
Alice McIntyre, author of Making Meaning of Whiteness: Exploring the Racial
Identities of White Teachers and Inner-City Kids: Adolescents Confront Life
and Violence in an Urban Community
Carol Miller, author of Academe as Indian Country and editor and co-founder
of the website Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color at
http://voices.cla.umn.edu
David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of
the American Working Class and editor of Black on White: Black Writers on
What It Means to Be White
The Midwinter Conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome and
the McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota Gateway. The conference
website (currently under construction) is at www.education.umn.edu/ci/nctear
NCTE Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference
Call For Round Table Proposals
Round table discussions provide the opportunity for researchers to present
and discuss their work with relatively small groups of colleagues (no more
than 25). The following are some questions that will frame our Midwinter
Conference for 2003:
· How can research with racially marginalized groups generate a
critique of our research methodologies and pedagogies?
· How can research with racially marginalized groups inform our
research and classroom practices with dominant groups?
· How do we account for the globalization of racism in our research
and classroom practices?
· How can examinations of whiteness in literacy research and
classroom practices help teachers and students question power relations in
schooling and society?
· How do race, emerging media technologies, literacy learning, and
power, relate?
· How do we prepare teachers to take up the racial dimensions of
reading, writing, and oral language in classrooms?
We welcome proposals grounded in diverse perspectives, including, among
others: critical race, postcolonial, postmodern, multicultural , feminist,
and queer theories; critical discourse analysis; critical and anti-racist
pedagogies; and ethnic, cultural, cross-cultural, and comparative studies.
We invite proposals that focus on empirical and teacher/action research, as
well as conceptual/theoretical work.
Proposals (no more than 2 single-spaced pages) should address the following:
The research question(s), methodology, findings/issues/questions for
discussion, and how the research will contribute to the conference
conversation. If your paper is a conceptual/theoretical one, please
describe your theoretical framework and argument and tell how it will
contribute to the conference conversation. Please indicate in the opening
lines of the proposal whether you intend to focus on empirical or
conceptual/theoretical questions.
If you would like to submit a paper copy of your proposal, send one copy to:
Timothy J. Lensmire, Co-Chair
NCTE Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference
University of Minnesota
350C Peik Hall
159 Pillsbury Drive, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Electronic submissions may be made to:
Garrett Albert Duncan, Co-Chair
NCTE Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference
Washington University in St. Louis
gaduncan@artsci.wustl.edu
Proposals must be received by October 1, 2002.
NCTE Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference
February 21-23, 2003
Radisson Hotel Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Conference Registration Form
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conference
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Conference Fees:
Regular rate (for assembly members): $95.00 ($115.00 on
site) ____________
Rate for non-members: $110.00 ($130.00 on site) ____________
Full time student rate*: $60.00 ($80.00 on site) ____________
Membership dues $15 regular $75 lifetime ____________
*student conference fee includes free Assembly membership for one year
Additional Activities
Morning Pre-conference workshop $25.00 ($30.00 on site) ____________
Afternoon Pre-conference workshop $25.00 ($30.00 on site) ____________
TOTAL AMOUNT INCLUDED ____________
Registration checks are nonrefundable. Registration will be closed when
enrollment cap (room capacity) is reached.
Conference Preregistration Deadline: January 30, 2003
The hotel reservation deadline is the same as the conference
preregistration deadline.
Please make checks payable to NCTERA. Mail registration form and fees to:
Caroline T. Clark
Language, Literacy, and Culture
School of Teaching and Learning
222A Ramseyer 29 W. Woodruff Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210-1177
Campus Phone: (614) 688-5449 e-mail: clark.664@osu.edu
Conference Site
Located on the University of Minnesota campus, the Radisson Hotel Metrodome
is three minutes from downtown Minneapolis; 15 minutes from downtown St.
Paul. The hotel provides free complimentary shuttle service within five
miles of the hotel and complimentary use of University recreational
facilities. We were able to negotiate extremely favorable rates with the
Radisson for a limited number of rooms. Reserve early. Our conference costs
are based on room occupancy and if we do not meet the minimal room
occupancy, the Assembly must make up the difference.
You must reserve a room by January 30, 2003 to receive the conference
rate.
Hotel Information:
Radisson Hotel Metrodome
615 Washington Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Reservations: (800) 822-6757 or (612) 379-8888
Conference rate
Room rates are reduced for conference participants: $99 for single and
double rooms. Please contact the Radisson Hotel Metrodome directly to make
your room reservations and tell them you are attending the NCTE Assembly
for Research Conference. All hotel fees should be sent directly to the
Radisson Hotel Metrodome. You must reserve a room by January 30, 2003, to
receive the conference rate.
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