(Name-mce) ListServ March 17, 2007: D'Youville College

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 Would you be so kind to post the call for papers? Best, Brad Porfilio 
 
Call for Papers
 
Promoting and Achieving Intercultural Learning
In North American Urban Classrooms:
3rd Annual International Symposium
 
March 17, 2007
 
Hosted by
D’Youville College’s Faculty of Education
Buffalo, New York, USA
 
This conference will examine and share ideas, projects, research and instructional strategies that surround the topic of promoting intercultural learning in urban settings or other challenging educational contexts.
  
We encourage proposals from teacher educators, K-12 teachers, college and university-based researchers and practitioners, university students and 
school-based administrators.
 
Submissions focusing upon the following areas will be received for review:
 
a)       successful teaching and learning strategies;
b)       theoretical/conceptual ideas which may include philosophical
       and historical examinations;
c)       empirical research;
d)       administrative initiatives geared to promoting equity and multiculturalism; 
e)      ongoing research.
 
Presenters may choose to present using a panel format, in a workshop design or as an individual presentation.  
 
Proposals need to include a 150 – 200 word summary of the presentation and/or study.  Proposals need to contain names, institutional affiliations, telephone numbers, and email addresses of the presenters.
 
 
 
Please forward proposal submissions by January 20, 2007
to: frank.brathwaite020 at sympatico.ca.  Responses will be made by February 5th.
For general inquiries contact Frank Brathwaite at: brathwai at dyc.edu. 
 
Keynote Speakers:
 
Dr. Greg Dimitriadis is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational 
Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo, The State University of 
New York.  Dimitriadis is the author of Performing Identity/Performing 
Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice (Peter Lang) and 
Friendship, Cliques, and Gangs: Young Black Men Coming of Age in Urban 
America (Teachers College Press, Columbia University). He is co-author of 
Reading and Teaching the Postcolonial: From Baldwin to Basquiat and Beyond 
(Teachers College Press, Columbia University), On Qualitative Inquiry 
(Teachers College Press, Columbia University), and Theory for Education 
(Routledge).  He is co-editor of Promises to Keep: Cultural Studies, 
Democratic Education, and Public Life (Routledge), Learning to Labor in New 
Times (Routledge), and Race, Identity, and Representation in Education 
(second edition) (Routledge).  He edits the book series Critical Youth 
Studies for Routledge.
 
Dr. George J. Sefa Dei is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT).  He has published numerous books and many journal articles in the areas of Anti-Racism, Minority Schooling, International Development and Anti-Colonial Thought. He has won many prestigious awards for his research and for his community work in Toronto, including the '2002 Race, Gender, and Class Project Academic Award,’ '2003 Community  Builder Award' from the Continuing Education Department of the Toronto Catholic District School Board, ’2003 African-Canadian Outstanding Achievement in Education’ from the Pride Magazine in Toronto. He has two co-authored books set for release in the spring of 2006―Schooling and Difference in Africa: Democratic Challenges in Contemporary Context and Anti-Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Resistance. 
 
Dr. Brad J. Porfilio is Assistant Professor of Education at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His research interests include urban education, transformative education, gender and technology, and cultural studies. Recent publications include “The Possibilities of Transformation: Critical Research and Peter McLaren,” in The International Journal of Progressive Education 2(3) and “Student as Consumers:”A Critical Narrative of the Commercialization of Teacher Education,” in The Journal for Critical Educational Policy Studies 4(1). His work will be published in several edited collections in 2007, including Paul Carr’s & Darren Lund’s (Eds.). The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege, and Identity in Education in Canada (Sense), Shirley S. Steinberg and Donald Macedo’s (Eds.). Handbook of Critical Media Literacy (Peter Lang), Eugene Provenzo’s (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (Sage).  He is currently co-editing a book with Dr. Curry Malott An International Examination of Urban Education: The Destructive Path of Neoliberalism (Sense). Scholars from the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia are contributing their ideas in relation to how neo-liberal policies and practices are structuring life in urban contexts across the globe.
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