Friday, April 30 - Tuesday, May 4
Denver, Colorado

*Note: Proposals are going to be due July 15 and they will need to be full 2000 word proposals - not just brief abstracts. For more information please click on the following: AERA Council Adopts Important Changes to Advance Annual Meeting Quality.

QUEER STUDIES SIG CALL FOR PAPERS

As Program Co-Chairs, Liz Meyer and Mara Sapon-Shevin strongly urge you to submit papers for this coming year's AERA.
The deadline for proposal submission has been changed to July 15th, so PLEASE bear this in mind. Also, if you go to the AERA website or the wiki (http://aeraqueerstudiessig.wetpaint.com), you will see new, stricter standards for what must be included in a proposal. Please guide yourself accordingly!!

Because of some of the AERA changes, we will have fewer spots, so make sure what you send us is good. Also, please do also send proposals on QUEER stuff to other SIGS , special interest groups like SAGE, and Divisions. The more places issues of sexuality and gender and such are presented, the better. This doesn't mean you shouldn't send to the QUEER SIG, just that you should diversify!!!

We had great visibility (rainbow armbands and all) at the meeting in San Diego and would like to keep up our centrality to the organization and its mission. OUT AND PROUD AND CLOSELY CONNECTED TO ALL SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES. Finally: please volunteer to review papers for the meeting. This helps us ensure quality reviews and helpful feedback to the authors of all submissions. We look forward to seeing your proposals!

Excerpts from AERA's description of the program theme: "Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World":

"The theme of AERA’s 2010 Annual Meeting—“Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World”—is intended to encourage submissions that address the conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities inherent in understanding how and what people learn across time and space. We encourage submissions that move beyond a narrow focus on individual sites or on purely cognitive or psychosocial explanations, or on singular conceptions of identity. Such an ecological focus encourages education researchers to draw on interdisciplinary constructs and theories, complex research designs, and multiple methods of data analysis.

We further encourage submissions that examine learning within and across complex social and cultural ecologies from a historical perspective and that examine policy implications for improving learning in formal and informal settings in ways that take into account the complex ecological factors that help to shape opportunities to learn. We also highly encourage submissions that address the methodological challenges of studies that address this kind of complexity.

Finally, examining learning within and across the complex ecologies of peoples’ lives inevitably requires that we address how political and economic factors create inequities in opportunities to learn. Such inequities are exacerbated when the dominant discourse of education research articulates hierarchies of particular constellations of ecologies as inherently deviant and pathological or when such research views understanding the diverse ecologies of peoples’ lives as a purely political social good and not as a scientific enterprise of fundamental importance aimed at articulating generative theories of human learning."