NCTE Midwinter Conference, Feb. 22-4, 2002, NYC

From: Peter Smagorinsky (psmagorinsky@home.com)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 02:42:50 PST


Here is a conference some of you may be interested in attending. Check the
website (http://www.rochester.edu/warner/nctear/index.htm ) for more
details and the call for papers.
NCTE Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference
February 22-24, 2002
New York City, New York

Researching the Relationship of Language, Literacies, and Power

In recent years, the Assembly for Research has presented thematically
different conferences, and these conferences shared at least two
similarities that we plan to build on in this year's conference: 1) A
perspective on language and literacy as social practices, and 2) a desire
to promote equality of access to educational achievement for learners from
diverse language and cultural backgrounds. In 2002, the conference will
bring to the fore another similarity that has emerged as significant,
although it is often implicit: the role of social power in relation to
language, literacy and learning.
As social practices, language and literacy are not neutral or "autonomous"
(Street, 1995). Rather, they are "ideological" in that social meanings and
power relationships are enacted through them. The 2002 conference invites
proposals that explore the ideological dimensions of language and literacy
practices in schools through questions such as the following:
… How are teachers helping linguistically and culturally diverse students
use multiple languages and literacies to question and reinvent their
relationships to the world?
… How do power relations in the classroom, in schools as institutions, in
communities and in government mediate access to language and literacy for
students from all backgrounds?
… How can school and community literacy practices transform the power
relations that privilege some communities over others?
… How can research on literacy events in classrooms and communities help
teachers and students question power relations in schooling and society?
… How do new technologies mediate literacy learning and social relations?
… How do we prepare teachers to take the ideological dimensions of reading,
writing, and oral language practices into account in their classroom practices?

Keynote Speakers & Workshop Presenters Include:
Arnetha Ball
James Gee
Michele Knobel
Colin Lankshear
Allan Luke
Luis Moll
Ira Shor
Brian Street

The Conference will be held at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Seventh Avenue at
52nd Street. University of Rochester, Warner Graduate School Dean,
Raffaella Borasi, will host a Welcome Reception on Friday evening, February
22, at the Sheraton Towers Princess Ballroom.
Details are available on the conference website:
www.rochester.edu/warner/nctear/index.htm.

Street, B. V. (1995). Social Literacies. London and New York: Longman.

-- 
Joanne Larson
Associate Professor
Box 270425 Dewey Hall
Warner Graduate School of Education
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
office: (716) 275-0900
fax: (716) 473-7598
e-mail: joln@troi.cc.rochester.edu



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Dec 01 2001 - 01:01:08 PST