I had to convert Mike's file--here's what the attachment says:
The Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research
and Scholarship in Learning Technologies
Nominations are now open for the Year 2003 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. Please note that criteria for the award
are broader than they have been in previous years.
This award recognizes an individual or small collaborative team that is
engaged research that is combined in some way with practice and
advocacy. While research must play a central, informative role in the work
of the applicant, the applying individual or group may include
practitioners, directors of innovative educational programs, or individuals
in informal or non-traditional educational environments who are blending
research, practice and advocacy.
The award is intended to recognize a body of work that:
• explores and demonstrates powerful new ways to think about technologies
in contexts of learning and education, and uses innovative research
techniques to understand the impact of those technologies;
• places young people and/or practicing educators at the center of the
problem-solving process by making their meaning-making process, their needs
and constraints, and their priorities central to the project of making
technology useful to teaching and learning.
• strikes an effective balance between innovation---inventing new
approaches to K-12 learning with technologies-- and understanding—examining
existing educational environments and the processes of change that they
undergo when technologies are introduced or used in new ways;
• uses technology to bring about broad improvements in educational systems
with a focus on issues of diversity, equity, and learning for all; and
• is an early career contribution with the above orientations (the award
will emphasize recognition for those individuals who are at the pre-tenure
stage in academic careers, or pre-tenure-level equivalents in
non-university contexts)
Dr. Jan Hawkins was a developmental psychologist with a cognitive,
cultural, and social-interactionist orientation, and was well known for her
respectful, humanistic conceptions of appropriate roles for using
technology in K-12 learning environments. Her work illustrates the balance
that can be achieved in recognizing the innovative, emergent properties of
new technologies while simultaneously respecting the individuals and
conditions of the learning environments in which these new technologies are
being used. She also was concerned with how complex social systems
interact with emerging technologies to provide or prevent access to
information for various groups of people based on gender, race, and
cultural and ethnic background. Her work helped researchers, practitioners,
and policy makers alike to think critically about technologies and
learning, encouraging them not to seek out technology 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 through her research and leadership.
Any member of Division C may make a nomination, including a
self-nomination. The recipient of the award need not belong to Division
C. A nomination may take one of two forms:
1) The nominator may send a letter containing 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, along with complete bibliographic citations of up to five
additional relevant publications of the nominee within the last three years
(or in press). The nominator should also submit copies of the
representative publications.
2) The nominator may send a brief portfolio describing the body of work
that qualifies the nominated party or parties for this award. This
portfolio may include unpublished research reports, materials describing or
reporting on programmatic work with youth or educators, links to web-based
materials, or curricula. The portfolio should both make clear the key
contributions of the work and the most recent developments or contributions
made by the individual or small group. The portfolio must make clear the
role that research plays in the work.
In addition, all nominations should include a supporting statement of no
more than 300 words, and the vita of the nominee.
The submission deadline is February 15, 2003. Please send all nominations
(including self-nominations) to: Laura Sanderson, Assistant to the
Director, EDC Center for Children and Technology, 96 Morton St. New York NY
10014. For additional information and queries, contact Andee Rubin
(Andee_rubin@terc.edu)
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