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
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