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[xmca] Call for Nominations: 2009 Jan Hawkins Award due Feb 6
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Call for Nominations: 2009 Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career
Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning
Technologies, AERA Div. C
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Jan Hawkins Award
SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 6th, 2009
Dr. Jan Hawkins (1952-1999) 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 makes 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.
This award recognizes an early-career individual or small
collaborative team that is engaged in research that combines practice
and advocacy. While research must play a central, informative role in
the work of the nominee, the nominated individual or group may include
practitioners, directors of innovative educational programs or
individuals in informal or non-traditional educational environments.
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 methods 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
- strikes an effective balance between innovation -- inventing new
approaches to K-12 learning with technologies -- and understanding --
examining existing educational environments and changes that occur
when technologies are introduced
- uses technology to bring about broad improvements in educational
systems with a focus on issues of diversity, equity, and learning for
all.
Nomination Process and Award Information
The Jan Hawkins Award of Division C of the American Educational
Research Association is given for Early Career Contributions to
Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies. The
award is an early-career contribution with the above orientations and
as such 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). The award carries a stipend
of $500, a plaque, and the opportunity to present a talk at the award
session at AERA in the following year.
Any member of Division C may make a nomination, including self-
nominations. The recipient(s) of the award need not belong to
Division C.
The nomination process includes the following information:
(1) LETTER: A nomination letter introducing the nominee or small team,
detailing how this nominee’s work relates to the themes identified
above (including how the work combines research and advocacy).
(2) VITA: The vita of the nominee (for individual nominations) or a
description of the team, its history, and a vita for team members
(for small group nominations).
(3) REPRESENTATIVE WORK: One to three examples of work (research
papers, publications, or other forms of professional work) that
demonstrate the key contributions of the nominee's recent research.
For a small group, the examples of representative work should consist
of collaborative work authored by the team.
Please assemble and submit these materials in one of the following
ways (electronic nominations only):
- A web portfolio with links to the nominating letter, vita, and work.
(The reviewers will use links to web sites as illustrations and will
not extensively explore websites unless there are clear indications of
how the sites relate to the program of research of the nominee.) Be
sure to send the chairs an email note informing them of the nomination
and that the web portfolio is complete.
- Attached electronic materials in commonly shared formats (MS-WORD,
PDF, JPG, GIF, etc) sent though email.
The submission deadline is Friday February 6th, 2009. Please send all
electronic nominations (including self-nominations) to this year’s co-
chairs, Barry Fishman <fishman@umich.edu> and Noel Enyedy <enyedy@gseis.ucla.edu
> with “Jan Hawkins Award” in the subject header.
--
Noel Enyedy, Associate Professor
Director of Research, University Elementary School
University of California at Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
2323 Moore Hall, Box 951521
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Office (310) 206-6271
FAX (310) 206-6293
enyedy@gseis.ucla.edu
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/enyedy
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