The deadline for this award is coming up soon. Jan was a person well
worth remembering and honoring. The deadline is a week away. Thanks
for the posting, Bill.
mike
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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