As I scrap the egg off my face, I'm reminded that context is
everything, and its helped by an appreciation of Roger Hargreave's
children books, and the frenetic pace of juggling too many end of
term activities before a much needed summer holiday. Apologies for
not checking the reply address. Alan Reid
On 25 Jul 2007, at 11:53, Jutta Nikel wrote:
> 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
>> ==========================================
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> --
> 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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