(Name-mce) ListServ Extended Call for Papers: Conference on Equity and Social Justice

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Extended Call for  Papers 

Conference  on 

Equity and Social Justice in  Education 

April 28,  2007 

At The Richard Stockton College 
Pomona, NJ 

Preliminary Call for  Proposals 


This conference will examine and share ideas, projects,  research and 
instructional strategies that surround the topic of equity and  social justice in 
education.  
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 February 20, 2007 
to:  bradley.porfilio at stockton.edu.  Responses will be made by March, 20  
2006. 
For general inquiries  contact Dr. Bradley Porfilio at: 
bradley.porfilio at stockton.edu.   
Location: 
Stockton College is a  mid-sized, award-winning liberal arts college nestled 
on a 1,600-acre campus in  pristine southeastern New  Jersey pinelands. We're 
just 20 minutes driving distance  from Jersey Shore beaches and Atlantic  
City; an hour to Philadelphia; and two  hours to New York  City 
(_www.stockton.edu_ (http://www.stockton.edu/) ).  
Current Keynote  Speakers: 
Carl  James is Professor  of Education at York University where he is 
currently the  Affirmative Action Director.  He also teaches in the Department of  
Sociology. His interest in youth and education form the basis of much of his  
teaching and research about policies and programs affecting youth in the urban  
context.  His work which appears in several journals and books examine  issues 
of equity in education in terms of race, ethnicity, class, gender and  
citizenship/ immigrant status.  His latest publications include, Race in  Play: 
Understanding the socio-cultural worlds of student athletes; Possibilities  and 
Limitations: Multicultural policies and programs in Canada; Seeing  Ourselves: 
Exploring race, ethnicity and culture. 
Joe L. Kincheloe is the Canada Research Chair at the  McGill University 
Faculty of Education.  He is the author of numerous books  and articles about 
pedagogy, education and social justice, racism, class bias,  and sexism, issues of 
cognition and cultural context, and educational  reform.  His books include:  
Teachers as Researchers, Classroom  Teaching: An Introduction, Getting Beyond 
the Facts: Teaching Social  Studies/Social Sciences in the Twenty-first 
Century, The Sign of the  Burger:  McDonald's and the Culture of Power, City Kids: 
Understanding  Them, Appreciating Them, and Teaching Them, and Changing 
Multiculturalism (with Shirley Steinberg).  His co-edited works include White  Reign: 
 Deploying Whiteness in America (with Shirley Steinberg et al)  and the 
Gustavus Myers Human Rights award winner:  Measured Lies:   The Bell Curve  
Examined (with Shirley Steinberg).  Along with his partner, Shirley  Steinberg, 
Kincheloe is an international speaker and lead singer/keyboard player  of Tony and 
the Hegemones. 
Shirley R. Steinberg is professor at the McGill University  Faculty of 
Education. She is the author and editor of numerous books and  articles and co-edits 
several book series.  The founding editor of  Taboo: The Journal of Culture 
and Education,   Steinberg has  recently finished editing Teen Life in Europe, 
and with Priya Parmar and Birgit Richard  The Encyclopedia of Contemporary 
Youth Culture.  She is the editor  of Multi/Intercultural Conversations:  A 
Reader. With Joe Kincheloe  she has edited Kinderculture: The Corporate 
Construction of Childhood and The Miseducation of the West:  How Schools and the Media 
Distort Our  Understanding of the Islamic World.   She is co-author of  Changing 
Multiculturalism:  New Times, New Curriculum, and  Contextualizing Teaching 
(with Joe Kincheloe).  Her areas of  expertise and research are in critical 
media literacy, social drama, and youth  studies.  
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. Eugene  Provenzo is Professor of Teaching  and Learning in the Department 
of Education at University of Miami. His work focuses on education as a  
social and cultural phenomenon. A particularly important concern of his has been  
the role of the teacher in American society. He has published and co-authored  
numerous books and articles. Some of his most recent projects include: The 
Internet and the World Wide Web for  Pre-Service Teachers (Allyn & Bacon); 
Education on the Net (Allyn &  Bacon); Computers, Curriculum and  Cultural Change: 
An Introduction for Teachers (Lawrence  Erlbaum Associates); Critical  
Literacy: What Every Educated American Ought to Know (Paradigm  Publishers); 
Observing in Schools: A Guide for Students in Teacher  Education (Allyn & Bacon); W. 
E. B. Du  Bois, The  Illustrated Souls of Black Folks  (Paradigm Press). Some 
of his forthcoming work includes: The  Textbook as Discourse  (Lawrence Erlbaum 
Associates); The Dark Side of Disney: Deconstructing the  Magic Kingdom 
(Roman and Littlefield); and A Dictionary of Critical  Literacy (Paradigm 
Publishing).  
Dr.  Jacqueline Leonard is Associate  Professor of Mathematics Education in 
the Department of Curriculum, Instruction  and Technology in Education at 
Temple University. Her general interests lie in  contextualizing mathematics by 
anchoring it to multicultural children’s  literature, science and technology. Dr. 
Leonard taught for fifteen years as  a public school teacher. She was awarded 
the Outstanding New Scholar Award by  the University of Maryland at College  
Park in 2004 and was recognized as a Leading African American Woman  in 
Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Commission  for Women for Outstanding Service in 
2005. She was visiting summer scholar at  Washington University in St. Louis in 
2005 and 2006. Dr. Leonard has  made 40 conference presentations, authored 25 
articles, and is currently under  contract by Lawrence Erlbaum to publish her 
first book entitled: Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the  Mathematics 
Classroom. 
 
Conference: 
On Equity and Social  Justice in Education 
Saturday: April 28,  2007 
Deadline for  Registration is March 15, 2007. A late registration fee of 
$10.00 will be  imposed after this date.  
Registration Fee (includes  coffee, lunch, and other materials) 
 $50.00 Participants/Presenters   
 $25.00 for full time college  students 
 $10 Late Registration  Fee 
Check (or M.O.) must accompany  completed form. Please send your registration 
form and check payable to The  Richard  Stockton College of  NJ: 
To:  Dr.  Bradley Porfilio, The Richard Stockton College of NJ, PO Box 195, 
Pomona, NJ  08240 
Name  __________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________ 
Telephone  ______________   
Email:  _________________ 
If you are a  full-time college student, please provide the following 
information:  College/University _________________________  
*Presentation  rooms will all be equipped with a projector. Please inform us 
if you will need  additional technological support.
 
Brad J.  Porfilio PhD.
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
The Richard  Stockton College of NJ
Pomona, NJ
08005
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