Please circulate to interested colleagues.
CALL FOR EEE SIG RESEARCH PAPER PROPOSALS - 2006
Proposal Deadline: August 2, 2005
Full Papers Due: March 1, 2006
Paper Presentations: April 8-12, 2006
Conference Venue: San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.bath.ac.uk/cree/eeesig/call.htm
The Ecological and Environmental Education SIG (Special Interest Group) of AERA
invites the submission of proposals for paper, symposium, and innovatively
interactive presentation formats which provide empirical or conceptual analyses
that expand our understanding of critical issues concerning theory, research,
policy and practice in ecological and environmental education (EEE) within
formal or informal settings.
In keeping with the 2006 conference theme, we encourage particular attention to
the intent behind environmental education research practices and the
relationships between research and policy/practice, the researcher and the
researched, and inquiry and activism. Stated another way, we invite critical
reflection not only on issues of research methodology and utilization, but also
on broader questions of purpose, power and politics, such as: How does EEE
research serve the common or public good? In the current context of neo-liberal
forms of globalization, how can researchers address and challenge power
structures that diminish democratic public participation in issues of
education, development and the environment?
Proposals are welcome from a variety of ontological/ epistemological,
methodological, disciplinary and cultural perspectives, but scholarship is
particularly encouraged that seeks to promote dialogue and forge linkages
across different perspectives and interests. Similarly, while domestic issues
may be examined within a formal or informal educational setting, proposals that
pursue connections between local and global issues, and between formal and
informal learning are especially invited.
Submissions from new researchers, whose work may not clearly fit into the above
theme, will be considered for a paper or roundtable discussion session with
experienced EEE researchers serving as discussants.
For additional information, please consult the AERA website
http://www.aera.net/meeting or contact Bob Stevenson, EEE SIG Program Chair,
2005-06, University at Buffalo, State University of New York,
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