Call for Proposals: Southeastern Universities Graduate Research Symposium (SUGRS)
April 19-23, 2021 Virtual Event This open call for paper, poster and panel presentations applies to ALL Graduate Students enrolled in any college/program. Do you need a practice run for a national conference presentation?? Do you have an idea that you would just like to share for feedback or collaboration?? Do you have research you completed in 2020-2021 or before that you would like to present?? Proposal Abstracts may represent completed, in progress, or proposed research; program evaluation; conceptual frameworks; literature reviews; or professional skill development for innovative, evidence-based services. In-process research is welcome. All areas of research are welcome and there are no limitations on field or topic. Proposal Abstracts must be submitted electronically NO LATER than March 26, 2021 Visit https://esprmc-symposium.ua.edu/ to Submit Your Proposal Hosted by the Educational Studies Department at The University of Alabama Questions?? Contact Dr. Stacy Hughey Surman at ssurman@ua.edu The 18th International Conference on Positive Behavior Support, an annual conference sponsored by the Association of Positive Behavior Support (APBS), is being held virtually this week. At each year's conference, the APBS awards two scholarships to students who present scholarly work in the Poster Session. These awards are given to students who present original research or original research-based practitioner or teacher education information. Carlson Coogler, a PhD student in Educational Research with a focus in Qualitative Research, was one of the two students awarded the Ted Carr Outstanding Poster Award. Her poster, entitled Barriers and Facilitators for PBIS Tier 2 Implementation, overviews a recent research collaboration with Dr. Sara McDaniel (SPEMA) and Dr. Kelly Guyotte (ESPRMC). Congratulations, Carlson! Special Issue Call: Racially-Just Epistemologies and Methodologies that Disrupt Whiteness12/18/2020
International Journal of Research & Method in Education
Special Issue Editor(s) Dr Sana Rizvi, University of Exeter s.rizvi@exeter.ac.uk Dr Altheria Caldera, Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) altheriacaldera@icloud.com Racially-Just Epistemologies and Methodologies that Disrupt Whiteness The International Journal of Research & Methods in Education invites authors to contribute to a special issue for publication in Spring 2022, which explores what racially just epistemologies and methodologies look like in educational research. In particular, we are seeking theoretical and empirical manuscripts that advance knowledge of the ways in which educational research can be conducted, drawing upon epistemologies and utilising methodologies that demonstrate respect for Black, Indigenous and other People of Colour (BIPOC). Manuscripts should explore the ways historically marginalised onto-epistemological frameworks and decolonising methodologies can be useful for investigating the lives of racially minoritised students, families and communities. There are a number of challenges that educational research methods need to address. This includes the following: (1) that whiteness in educational research is sustained by the epistemological ignorance of race (Mills, 2007) and that European colonisation contributes to epistemicide, or the destruction of knowledges held by the subaltern (2014); and (2) that communities of colour are creators of knowledge and should be central to developing knowledge in way that helps them “talk back” to the western construction of their lived experience (bell hooks, 1989, p. 9; Hill Collins, 1990). We look for papers on topics that address these and other related challenges. Contributors to this special issue will critically interrogate existing research methodologies and epistemologies and propose others that are useful in disrupting the apartheid of knowledge (Delgado Bernal & Villalpando, 2002) and that expose the racial character of knowledge systems in educational research. This issue furthers the ongoing work of people of colour who recognise the need for “theoretical and methodological spaces'' of their own (Evans-Winters, 2019, p. 14). Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts that address the following or related topics:
Seventeenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
19-22 May 2021 Theme: Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry The Organizing Committee of ICQI 2021 has been carefully evaluating how COVID-19 may impact the 2021 Congress meetings, including various forms of engagement (sessions, workshops, publisher exhibits, etc.) and delivery (face-to-face, hybrid, virtual). After much consideration, we are pleased to announced that we are moving forward with two ways for participants to engage with the Congress: 1) a fully online virtual experience; and, tentatively, 2) an in-person, face-to-face experience, with access to the virtual content. The safety of our community is of the utmost importance. Given the current state of the global pandemic, it may become necessary in the intervening period for the Congress to move solely to a fully online virtual model for 2021. Registration will not open until early 2021, so that participants can have a full and final accounting of the Congress format(s) before having to commit to attending. We trust that participants will bear with us as we navigate these difficult and uncertain times. The virtual model will allow participants:
Engaging with the virtual model will also mean ‘attending’ the Congress will come at a lower cost (no need for travel and accommodations) and with no risk that the Congress will be cancelled in toto due to circumstances outside of our control as related to COVID-19. It was with great sadness that we had to cancel the 2020 meetings; making preparations like the ones above ensures the Congress will take place in some form in 2021! The theme of the 2021 Congress is Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry. The rapidly changing social, cultural, political, economic, and technological dynamics brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic are inescapable as we endeavor to move forward. The pandemic has also amplified hard truths about everyday life: the ongoing historical devaluation of teachers, nurses, and service workers, and the precarity of the working classes; the unyielding privileging of business and the free market as the answer to all social and health ills; the differential experience of the virus relative to race, class, and gender dynamics, including as related to co-morbidity and mortality rates, access to care, and visibility; the rise of right-wing populism and its deleterious impact on positive governmental responses to pandemic conditions; the prominence of conspiracy theories in mainstream and social media discourse (e.g., masks don’t help, virus is man-made, etc.). At the same time, we cannot overlook the broader context in which the 2021 Congress will take place: Black Lives Matter; creeping authoritarianism; environmental crises; economic shocks to higher education; continuing public health crises. Collectively and collaboratively, this moment calls for a critical, performative, social justice inquiry directed at the multiple crises of our historical present. We need a rethinking of where we have been, and, critically, where we are going. We cannot go at it alone. We need to imagine new ways to collaborate, to engage in research and activism. New ways of representing and intervening into the historical present. New ways to conduct research, and a rethinking of in whose interest our research benefits. Sessions in the 2021 Congress will take up these topics, as well as those related to and/or utilizing: feminist inquiry; Critical Race Theory; intersectionality; queer theory; critical disability research; phenomenology; Indigenous methodologies; postcolonial and decolonized knowing; poststructural engagements; diffraction and intra-action; digital methodologies; autoethnography; visual methodologies; thematic analysis; performance; art as research; critical participatory action research; multivocality; collaborative inquiry; and the politics of evidence. Sessions will also discuss threats to shared governance; attacks on freedom of speech; public policy discourse; and research as resistance. The abstract submission portal will be available shortly, with abstracts accepted through January 15, 2021. We will make another announcement to the listserv when the portal is available. We will also continue to update the ICQI community via the Congress website (http://icqi.org) as we proceed in our planning over the next few months. |
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