Hi Alan,
shall we have a talk about this over coffee later.
Jutta
Alan Reid wrote:
> REMINDER - SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 2 AUGUST 2007 - apologies for cross
> postings, please circulated to interested colleagues
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> Participatory approaches and ecological and environmental education:
> Theory, policy, practice, progress?
>
> Call for Proposals, AERA Annual Meeting, New York, Monday, March 24 -
> Friday, March 28, 2008
>
> AERA Ecological and Environmental Education Special Interest Group
> (EEE-SIG) - Deadline 2 August, 2007
>
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> Participation, which is also a form of intervention, is too serious
> and ambivalent a matter to be taken lightly, or reduced to an amoeba
> word lacking any precise meaning, or a slogan, or fetish, or for that
> matter, only an instrument or methodology. Reduced to such
> trivialities, not only does it cease to be a boon, but it runs the
> risk of acting as a deceptive myth or a dangerous tool for
> manipulation. To understand the many dimensions of participation, one
> needs to enquire seriously into all its roots and ramifications,
> these going deep into the heart of human relationships and the socio-
> cultural realities conditioning them. (Rahnema, 1992, p.126) *
>
>
> Building on the theme for the AERA Annual Meeting of “Research on
> Schools, Neighbourhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic
> Responsibility,” the EEE-SIG invites the submission of proposals for
> the 2008 meeting that expand our understandings of critical issues
> concerning participatory approaches and ecological and environmental
> education. Concerned with both the possibilities and challenges of
> participatory approaches and their implications for theory, policy,
> and practice as suggested by Rahnema (1992), and interested in
> exploring whether progress has been made over the past 15 years; we
> encourage attention to such themes and questions as:
>
> - what do we know about participatory approaches in ecological and
> environmental education settings, programs and processes, and how do
> we know this; and relatedly, what do we now need to know, and how
> else might we know this?
>
> - how might we better theorize, practice and understand diverse
> forms of participation in ecological and environmental education,
> e.g. their rationales, effectiveness, and shortcomings, and relation
> to schools, civic responsibility, neighbourhoods or communities
> (human and more-than-human)?
>
> - does the ecological or environmental make a difference to
> participatory approaches in education in general, or to
> sustainability- or well-being-related education in particular; for
> example, in focusing on and addressing relations of power between
> humans and nature and between different groups or communities?
>
> Proposals are welcome from a variety of ontological, epistemological,
> methodological, disciplinary and cultural perspectives. We
> particularly encourage submissions on these themes and questions
> related to international and collaborative scholarship that seeks to
> promote dialogue and forge linkages. Similarly, proposals that pursue
> connections between local and global issues, and between diverse
> settings, are especially invited.
>
> Proposals can be for paper, symposium, and innovatively interactive
> presentation formats. Online submission procedures and session
> formats are detailed at www.aera.net/Default.aspx?id=2966. The
> deadline is August 2, 2007. All proposals are peer reviewed. High
> quality submissions from researchers and scholars whose work does not
> clearly fit with the above is also welcome and will be considered for
> paper or roundtable discussion sessions.
>
> It is not necessary to be a member of the SIG to submit a proposal or
> to present a paper; however, we do encourage membership of the EEE-
> SIG to help increase the presence of environmental and ecological
> education at AERA. Dues are $5 for one-year and $15 for three years.
> For information about the EEE-SIG, please contact the SIG Secretary:
> Amy Sloane, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [log in to unmask] We
> encourage all members (particularly research students) of the SIG to
> sign up as a proposal reviewer for the annual meeting.
>
> For further information, please see the EEE-SIG website -
> www.bath.ac.uk/cree/eeesig, or contact:
> Program Chair - Alan Reid, University of Bath, +44-1225-386294,
> [log in to unmask]
> Program Co-Chair - Robert Stevenson, University of Buffalo,
> 716-645-2471 x 1093, [log in to unmask]
> SIG Chair - Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Monash University, +61-3-990-44638,
> [log in to unmask]
>
> * Rahnema, M. (1992) Participation, in: W. Sachs (ed), The
> Development Dictionary. Zed Books, 116-131.
>
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Dr Jutta Nikel
Centre for Research in Education and the Environment (CREE)
Department of Education
University of Bath
Bath, BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
Tel. 0044 (0)1225 385622
Email: [log in to unmask]
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