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[xmca] Fwd: Third International Conference On Education, Labor, And Emancipation Sep 2006

>THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, LABOR, AND EMANCIPATION
>
>CONFERENCE THEME:
>
>Teaching for Global Community: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer
>Strategies of the Oppressor
>
>CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>
>EL PASO, TEXAS
>AND
>CIUDAD JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA, MÉXICO
>
>SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 1, 2006
>
>Education has long been viewed as a vehicle for building community.
>However, the critical role of education and schools for building community
>is undermined by recent trends toward the centralization of educational
>policy-making (e.g. No Child Left Behind in the United States), the
>normalization of “globalization” as a vehicle for the advancement of
>economic neo-liberalism and social hegemony, and the commodification of
>schooling in the service of corporate capitalism. Alternative visions of
>schooling and education are urgently needed to curb these dangerous
>trends, which threaten to destroy public nature of schooling and nullify
>its emancipatory potential.
>
>This conference welcomes proposals that examine ways in which we can
>create and support communities as a vital element of a democratic public
>sphere, while also disrupting the neo-conservative/neo-liberal agenda that
>threatens to rob communities of agency and empowerment. This conference
>also serves as a mandate for those working for critical, emancipatory
>education to address ways in which we can overcome “divide and
>conquer” strategies of the oppressor at work in our communities. Our
>goal is to provide a forum for debate on how people can have access to
>information and social spaces that will allow us all to govern our lives
>in ways that resist the greed, individualism, intolerance, and
>antidemocratic practices that typify current global trends. Proposals that
>address issues related to education, labor, and emancipation, broadly
>defined and from any context, are encouraged. The theoretical perspectives
>used to examine these issues might include, but are not limited to, the
>following:
>
> * Critical, multicultural, and/or anti-racist pedagogy
> * Critical feminist and post-feminist theory
> * Critiques of globalization, imperialism & nationalism
>Border Theory
>Constructivism
>Grassroots organizing
>Critical Race Theory
>Liberation theology
>Indigenous perspectives
>Critical postcolonial studies
>Queer Theory
>Critical media studies
>Marxist and neomarxist analyses
>Critical environmental studies/sustainability
>Post-structuralism & postmodernism
>
>
>DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: MAY 31, 2006
>
>Proposals for both panels and individual papers are solicited. Please
>indicate type of proposal with the submission. For panel proposals,
>indicate members of the panel. All proposals should contain a cover sheet
>with the panel or paper title, contact information (e-mail, address,
>telephone number, affiliation), a brief bio of each presenter, and an
>abstract of no more than 150 words (not including references), in both
>English and Spanish if possible. Proposals should be submitted
>electronically to <mailto:confele@utep.edu>confele@utep.edu. Please
>indicate whether you wish to present in Spanish or English, and in Cd.
>Juárez or El Paso. We will try to accommodate your choice. Keynote
>presentations will be translated (Spanish and English)
>
>Proposals should be sent by E-mail to:
><mailto:confele@utep.edu>confele@utep.edu
>
>PUBLICATIONS: A book (in English, with possible versions in Spanish and
>Portuguese) will be produced from this conference, comprising the most
>engaging conference papers, as selected by an editorial board. Presenters
>wishing to be considered for this volume should submit full papers (in APA
>style) for review by September 25, 2006.
>
>
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