(NAME-MCE) Final Call for Papers: Conference on Equity and Social Justice April 28, 2007

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Could you please post the final call for papers? Thanks, Brad
 
Dr. Brad Porfilio
Assistant Professor of Education
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Room: H-224
609.626.3574
 
 
 

 
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
(March 15, 2007)
 
Conference on
 
Equity and Social Justice in Education
 
April 28, 2007
 
The Richard Stockton College
Pomona, NJ
 
Final 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 1, 2007.
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). 
 
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.
 
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