Call for Proposals, Conferences, Faculty, General, Professional Development

Call for Proposals and Education Conference

Your are invited to participate at the Critical Questions in Education Symposium to be held October 30—31, 2017, at the Hotel Monaco in Pittsburgh, PA.  Below you will find information about the Symposium sponsored by the Academy for Educational Studies .  Deadline for submitting proposals for the Symposium is JULY 1, 2017.

The Symposium:

With Donald Trump as President and Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, the public schools are poised to change—but how will they change, and what vision will guide them?  This is the question lying behind the theme question for this year’s CQiE Symposium.  The Symposium is an intimate gathering of scholars and interested others focused on a single (yet flexible) theme question.  The object is for us to talk, listen, and learn from one another—then take back our new-found perspectives to our daily educational tasks.  Our theme question:

What vision of public education – and of the young people who will graduate from our high schools and colleges – should animate the work of teachers and school administrators, as well as that of teacher educators and their students?

This is a topic that invites a broad range of approaches from educators with a broad range of interests.   Those interested in submitting a proposal might consider the following approaches.  Please also note that we offer an Open Topic category for those of you ho want to share conversations on the Symposium topic while presenting on an education-related topic of your choice:

  • Is there still a public purpose for public schools, K—12 through college?  Is there still a public for the public schools to serve?  What ends of education must our public schools pursue—now, and in the future?  What authors help us think about this?
  • Does the privatization of K—12 schooling by means of charter schools, vouchers, and educational entrepreneurship help us achieve the educational ends we desire?  Or is privatization at odds with the public ends of public schooling?  
  • What social, political, or economic influences must we consider as we create this lasting vision?  What trends or “futures-thinking” is important to consider?
  • If change needs to happen, how will it happen, who will lead it, and on what scale must it occur?  And what, in particular, needs to change?  Curriculum or instruction?
  • Funding, standards, testing, teacher preparation?