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CFP: Relevance of Assessment and Culture in Education

Posted on: 02/05/2006

R.A.C.E. 2006, Relevance of Assessment and Culture in Education
April 27 - 29, 2006
http://coe.asu.edu/ivera/

Arizona State University
Tempe Campus
Tempe, Arizona

This conference brings participants together in an academic environment
rich with indigenous research, narratives, music, and traditions.

Presented by the College of Education Division of Curriculum & Instruction
and Division of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies.

Speakers and Performers:
Maenette Benham, a Native Hawaiian scholar and teacher, is a Professor
in the Department of Educational Administration at Michigan State
University.
Julie Kaomea is a Native Hawaiian assistant professor in the College of
Education at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Award-winning Seattle filmmaker, Jill Freidberg (This is What Democracy
Looks Like, 2000), spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the
efforts of over 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting to
defend the country's public education system.

A variety of session formats are welcomed. In addition to symposia, papers and workshops, we encourage various presentation formats, including narratives, poetry, and other performative contributions addressing the following topics:

* Voice and Relevance: Research with/in Indigenous Communities
* Epistemological Considerations of Local Knowledge
* Assessment/Testing/Measurement Issues in an Era of Accountability
* Decolonizing Methodologies, including applications to curriculum, pedagogy, research and assessment
* Language Revitalization and Maintenance and Language Rights

Proposal submission:

To ensure a diverse number of speakers, your name must appear on one proposal only. Proposals must be no more than three (3) pages in length and include the following:

* Names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail addresses of all presenters;
* Brief title, capturing the primary theme, concern, or topic of the session;
* Brief rationale explicating the theoretical grounding of the session, and its relevance to the interests of the conference;
* 1-2 paragraph description of the purpose and content of the session;
* Indication of session type (e.g. paper, workshop, panel);
* Indication of provisions for participant involvement;
* 50 word abstract for inclusion in the conference program.

Submit proposals to ivera@asu.edu by March 1, 2006.

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