NCTEAR 2020: NCTEAR Midwinter Conference 2020 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, United States, February 20-23, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.nctear.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nctear2020 |
Submission deadline | October 30, 2019 |
NCTEAR 2020: Storying Communities
How do communities develop? What role do communities play in social action, resistance, and transformation? What roles do community narratives have as forms of social action, resistance, and transformation?
Within the current political climate, when injustice, hatred, and hostility toward vulnerable populations have become normalized, and even in some cases, have become policy or law, it takes activism and imagination to envision new possibilities for resistance and transformation. The NCTEAR 2020 conference invites participants to consider the power and potential of community-based scholarship, community-related narratives, public engagement, and community activism. Whether papers are inspired by Freirian perspectives (e.g., conscientização and praxis), by other critical traditions (e.g., feminist, Critical Race Theory, or poststructural theories), or by the discursive and narrative analysis of community stories, we invite work that takes up different approaches to social justice, narrative, creative strategies, and the arts—diverse ways to critically engage with the world and one’s (changing) position(s) in it. Through our presentations and discussions we will seek to gain insight into ways to engage community-based participatory research, new pedagogies, and narrative inquiry that accent trust, power, dialogue, community capacity building, and collaborative inquiry toward the goal of social change.
As such, we invite papers addressing the following questions:
- What are the interrelationships between stories and community, learning, language, and identity?
- What are the community-based historical, political, social, theoretical, cultural, and educational influences that shape schooling for all students?
- How can we study the relationships between community place, space, language, ethnicity, race and culture across diverse settings (e.g. schools, households, communities) from an asset rather than a subtractive or deficit approach?
- How can we come to understand the complexity of the idea of community?
- What are the affordances of a community-based perspective on thinking and learning?
- How can we come to understand how to provoke forms of learning and the level of the community?
- How can we develop new methodologies for working with communities that honors and brings into consideration the value of the community?
- How can we develop methods for mapping learning in a community?
Presenters are encouraged to explore answers to these questions and others from multiple contexts of pre-K-16 English language arts education and literacy research, including afterschool and community settings, students whose first language is other than English, etc. Please consider submitting a proposal for NCTEAR 2020, attending the conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, on February 21-23, and contributing to these conversations. The planning committee welcomes proposals for individual papers, symposia, work-in-progress roundtables, and alternative format sessions. A description of each type of session can be found below. We welcome proposals representing a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We invite proposals that focus on empirical research as well as conceptual/theoretical work.
Proposals must be submited via the Easy Chair Conference System (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nctear2020) by the deadline of 11:59 pm PST on October 30, 2019.
Individual Papers
Proposals for the presentation of individual papers that report empirical research should include: a title, a 100-150 word abstract, research question(s)/purposes, theoretical framework, methodology, findings, and contribution to theory and research in the field. Proposals for the presentation of conceptual / theoretical work should include: title, a 100-150 word abstract, purpose and rationale, a clear description of the theoretical / conceptual argument being made and the basis / warrants for the argument, and the contribution of the theoretical / conceptual argument to the field. Proposals should be clearly written and not more than 800 words in length (not including references). The review of proposals for the presentation of individual papers is a “masked” review and therefore no identifying information should be included in the proposal itself (on the cover sheet you should include your name, affiliation, address, e-mail, etc.).
Symposia
A symposium consists of a series of no more than three (3) presentations plus a chair and discussant if desired. The presentations must be clearly related (e.g., address a topic from different perspectives, report different aspects of a larger study, etc.). Proposals for a symposium should include: (a) an overview of the symposium including a 100-150 abstract of the symposium, the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of all participants and titles of their presentations, and (b) a maximum 800-word description of the symposium. The review of proposals for the symposium is a “masked” review and therefore no identifying information should be included in the proposal itself (on the cover sheet you should include your name, affiliation, address, e-mail, etc.).
Work-In-Progress Roundtables
Works-in-progress roundtable sessions provide opportunities for presenters to share empirical works-in-progress (including qualitative, quantitative, narrative inquiry, ethnographic, practitioner research, etc.) with a small group of colleagues and to engage in extended discussion of their research. Proposals for a work-in-progress roundtable should include: a title, a 100-150 word abstract, research question(s)/purposes, theoretical framework, methodology, and a description of the corpus of data to be shared at the roundtable. Proposals for a work-in-progress roundtable should be a maximum of 800 words (not including references). The review of proposals for work-in- progress roundtables is a “masked” review and therefore no identifying information should be included in the proposal itself (on the cover sheet you should include your name, etc.).
Alternative Format Sessions
We invite proposals for sessions that employ formats other than those listed above (e.g., performances, visual or multimodal representations, immersive theatre, installations, etc.). Alternative format sessions should be designed for no longer than 90-minute sessions. Please describe space, time, and/or digital technology needs. Proposals for alternative format sessions should include: a cover sheet, a title, a 100-150 word abstract, a clear description of the session, and a list of participants including names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. Proposals for alternative format sessions should be no longer than 800 words. The review of alternative format sessions is NOT a masked review and therefore, as appropriate, identifying information may be included in the proposal.