Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2021-2022
This directory of AERA SIGs is in alphabetical order. Websites & email addresses,
when available, are listed. Although we check this page for errors frequently if
you should notice a non-working link please let
us know. If your SIG is interested in creating or moving its webpage to
the AERA website, please let us know.
SIGs: | A–G | H–Q | R–Z | All | A–G
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Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Evaluation in Education Preparation (SIG #174)
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| Purpose:
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The purpose of the SIG is the accumulation and interpretation of research findings associated with CAEP accreditation, state review processes, or assessment and evaluation of the graduates of educator preparation programs and the quality of the programs themselves.
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| Contact:
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Malina Monaco, Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, Cary, NC, malina.monaco@caepnet.org
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| Dues:
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Evaluation in Education Preparation
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Action Research (SIG #2)
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| Purpose:
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The Action Research SIG builds community among those who are engaged in action research and those who teach others to do action research. This is accomplished through dialog about professional development strategies, educational practices and theory, and methods of action research.
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| Contact:
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Elizabeth Azukas, East Stroudsburg State University of Pennsylvania, Maplewood, NJ, lizazukas@gmail.com
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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https://sites.google.com/view/aeraarsig/current-news
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Adolescence and Youth Development (SIG #3)
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| Purpose:
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To bring together educators, researchers, and youth advocates interested in examining ways to improve upon the experiences, behaviors, and perceptions of adolescence and youth as they develop over time. This SIG includes a cross section of researchers interested in diverse topics associated with adolescence and youth development.
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| Contact:
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Camea Davis, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, cdavis214@gsu.edu
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Adolescence and Youth Development
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Adult Literacy and Adult Education (SIG #4)
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| Purpose:
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Dedicated to research development, policy, and practice in adult literacy and adult education. This SIG takes an interdisciplinary, lifespan perspective on learning and instruction among diverse populations.
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| Contact:
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Leah Katherine Saal, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, lksaal@loyola.edu
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Adult Literacy and Adult Education
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Advanced Studies of National Databases (SIG #6)
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To advance knowledge of the contexts and practices of education through facilitating awareness and understanding of the rigorous research methods required for valid and reliable analysis of national and state level databases.
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| Contact:
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Jian Li, Kent State University , Kent, OH, jli42@kent.edu
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| Dues:
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$6.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Advanced Studies of National Databases
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Advanced Technologies for Learning (SIG #7)
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To design new technologies that structure educational environments and transform educational practice, and to help the AERA community understand and influence the use of advanced technologies.
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| Contact:
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Nikki G. Lobczowski, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, nikkilob12@gmail.com
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/SIGATL
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Arts and Learning (SIG #8)
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| Purpose:
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Recent themes include: arts performance and process in curriculum; arts integration, assessment, and criticism; cultural issues; semiotics creative process; aesthetic education; alternative research methodologies; and constructivism.
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| Contact:
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Joy Gaulden Bertling, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, jbertlin@utk.edu
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Arts and Learning
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Bourdieu in Educational Research (SIG #185)
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| Purpose:
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To provide a space for those interested in Bourdieu’s oeuvre where we explore and reflect on the use of his theories and concepts.
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| Contact:
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Garth Stahl, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, garth.stahl@gmail.com; Guanglun Michael Mu, University of South Australia, Kelvin Grove, Australia, michael_mu_0404@hotmail.com
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| Dues:
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Bourdieu in Educational Research
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Career and Technical Education (SIG #134)
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| Purpose:
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To discuss topics in vocational/career and technical education, career development, human resource development, career issues in the schools (Grades K-12), postsecondary education, adult and lifelong learning, and workforce education.
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| Contact:
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Jordan Dolfi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, jjdolfi@ncsu.edu
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Career and Technical Education
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Caribbean and African Studies in Education (SIG #86)
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To encourage, conduct, coordinate, and disseminate research on education within and between Caribbean and African countries.
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| Contact:
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Sheron A. Fraser-Burgess, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, sfraserburge@bsu.edu; Joyanne Beverly De Four-Babb, University of Belize, CASCADE, Trinidad and Tobago, jd4babb@gmail.com
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| Dues:
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Caribbean and African Studies in Education
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/aeraCASE/
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| LinkedIn:
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/54098197/admin/
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Catholic Education (SIG #175)
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To support, promote, and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of Catholic education written from a diverse set of perspectives, including interdisciplinary and international issues.
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| Contact:
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Michael Roy Sampson, St. Johns University, St. Petersburg, FL, sampsonm@stjohns.edu
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$10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Catholic Education
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Charters & School Choice (SIG #142)
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To promote and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of charter schools written from a diverse set of perspectives.
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| Contact:
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Charters & School Choice
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Classroom Assessment (SIG #18)
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The purposes of the SIG are to promote student learning through improved classroom assessment practices; to assist teachers in improving their classroom assessment practices and understand why it is essential to do so. To achieve these purposes, the SIG includes among its goals the promotion of quality research into classroom assessment practices, using all legitimate research approaches and methods, and the active collaboration with other SIGs and AERA divisions who share an interest in promoting research into classroom assessment.
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| Contact:
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Mary E Yakimowski, Samford University, Hoover, AL, MYakimow@Samford.edu
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Classroom Assessment
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Cognition and Assessment (SIG #167)
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| Purpose:
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To promote research on educational assessment merging two traditionally distinct fields - cognition and psychometrics
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| Contact:
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Jimmy de la Torre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, j.delatorre@hku.hk
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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https://sites.google.com/view/cognitionandassessment
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Computer and Internet Applications in Education (SIG #22)
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To promote research and evaluation on the use of computer-based information and communications resources and software for learning, instruction, assessment, and accomplishment by students, teachers, and administrators.
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| Contact:
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Jon M. Clausen, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, jmclaus@bsu.edu
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Computer and Internet Applications in Education
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Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education (SIG #171)
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| Purpose:
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The purpose of the SIG is to bring together individuals who share a common interest in in-depth, cross-cultural, international dialogue on how Confucianism and Taoism in both classical and contemporary schools of thought can inform educational theory and practice.
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| Contact:
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Seungho Moon, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, smoon3@luc.edu
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| Dues:
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/Confucianism-Taoism-Buddhism-and-Education-602503046456159/
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Constructivist Theory, Research and Practice (SIG #25)
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| Purpose:
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To facilitate communication and to promote theory, research and improvement in practices of educators at all levels from a constructivist or developmental perspective.
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| Contact:
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Bryan Philip Sanders, Loyola Marymount University, Culver City, CA, bryansanders@me.com
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| Dues:
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Constructivist Theory, Research and Practice
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Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research and Practice (SIG #26)
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| Purpose:
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To exchange information about current research, theory, and improvements in implementation of cooperative learning procedures; to provide a structured forum for discussions related to cooperative learning.
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| Contact:
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Allen Thurston, Queen's University Belfast, Lisburn, Northern Ireland BT274SG, United Kingdom, a.thurston@qub.ac.uk
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research and Practice
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Critical Educators for Social Justice (SIG #144)
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Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) is committed to the struggle for social justice, human rights and democracy for diverse communities. We promote research, teaching, and activism centered on cultural, racial, linguistic, political, and economic self-determination within our classrooms, schools, and communities. A significant objective of CESJ is to promote communication and collaboration among critical educators and researchers working in public schools, universities, and community education programs. We believe that education, as a form of critical understanding, plays a crucial role in transforming society.
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Shanyce L. Campbell, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, shanycecampbell@pitt.edu; Tiffany M Nyachae, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, tiffany.m.nyachae@gmail.com
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| Dues:
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$15.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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http://www.cesjsig.org/
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/criticaleducators.sj.3
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Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education (SIG #27)
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To promote the integrated study of race, ethnicity, social class, and gender as lenses for performing critical analyses and evaluations of prevailing theory and practice on education.
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| Contact:
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Jemimah L Young, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, jemimah.young@tamu.edu
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$20.00 (1 yr); students $15.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/120611961292065/
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Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies (SIG #28)
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| Purpose:
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To support and promote transdisciplinary research of education as experience. The SIG de-stabilizes commonly held boundaries of educational research beyond contemporary curriculum discourses. Members pursue curriculum inquiry using critical perspectives, and performative, auto-ethnographic and conceptual approaches to ask sociocultural, political, and theoretical questions.
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| Contact:
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Reagan P. Mitchell, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC, mitchellr@uncsa.edu
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$7.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies
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Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education (SIG #29)
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The purpose of this SIG is to foster research on and critical analyses of issues in early childhood education and childhood studies and to encourage the development of alternative perspectives and curriculum in early childhood education.
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| Contact:
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Janice Kroeger, Kent State University, Hudson, OH, jkroege1@kent.edu
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| Dues:
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$17.00 (1 yr); students $15.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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https://sites.google.com/site/cpecesig/home
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Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education (SIG #153)
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The Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education SIG is an international SIG devoted to the study of education in and as effects of postcolonial, transnational, and globalization contexts.
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Christopher Mark Kirchgasler, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, chris.kirchgasler@wisc.edu
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$7.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/Postcolonial-Studies-and-Education-Special-Interest-Group-AERA-198817803522052/
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Democratic Citizenship in Education (SIG #150)
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To promote democratic citizenship-development research in K-12 classrooms, and to foster an interdependence among citizenship-democratic researchers.
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| Contact:
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Tianlong (Tian) Yu, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, tyu@siue.edu
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Democratic Citizenship in Education
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Disability Studies in Education (SIG #143)
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Supports the development of disability studies, a series of interdisciplinary modes of critical advocacy scholarship, among educational researchers.
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| Contact:
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Emily A. Nusbaum, Mills College , San Rafael, CA, emilynusbaumphd@gmail.com; Saili S. Kulkarni, Ph.D., San Jose State University, San Carlos, CA, saili.kulkarni@sjsu.edu
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Disability Studies in Education
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/356215848207216
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Districts in Research and Reform (SIG #156)
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To bring together researchers, central office administrators, reform support organization leaders, and others interested in key questions of system-wide improvement and leadership.
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| Contact:
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Stephanie Diane Tuters, Niagara University, Burlington, Canada, stephanie.tuters@utoronto.ca; Vidya Shah, Ed.D, York University, Toronto, Canada, vidshah@edu.yorku.ca
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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Districts in Research and Reform
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Early Education and Child Development (SIG #32)
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To promote research that has implications for theory, policy, practice, and teacher development in the diverse contexts serving children from birth to age eight.
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| Contact:
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Melissa Beth Sherfinski, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, melissa.sherfinski@mail.wvu.edu
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$15.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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http://www.aera-eecd-sig.org/
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Educational Change (SIG #155)
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This SIG adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding many aspects of educational change, including large-scale reform, school-initiated change, school improvement, and classroom-level change.
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| Contact:
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Jennie Weiner, University of Connecticut, SOMERVILLE, MA, jennie.weiner@uconn.edu
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$12.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
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Educational Change
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/AERAEducationalChangeSIG155/
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Educational Statisticians (SIG #37)
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To increase interaction among educational researchers interested in the theory, applications, and teaching of statistics in the social sciences.
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| Contact:
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Audrey J. Leroux, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, aleroux@gsu.edu
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$10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Educational Statisticians
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Elliot Eisner (SIG #177)
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The purpose of the Elliot Eisner SIG is to promote scholarship that applies, extends, critiques, and reinvents Eisner’s scholarship. The SIG will act as a catalyst for the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum built upon the foundation that Eisner established. The SIG will provide the opportunity to continue conceptualizing educational criticism and connoisseurship with an eye towards various forms of representation; will encourage new forms of evaluation based on Eisner’s ideas; will provide a home for the continuation of research into discipline-based art education and arts-integration; will continue to look at ways to conceptualize schooling (formal and informal) from arts-based perspectives; and will be a place of mentorship for young scholars of curriculum, school evaluation, qualitative research, the arts, and/or school reform.
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Lynn Butler-Kisber, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, lynn.butlerkisber@mcgill.ca
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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Elliot Eisner
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/Eisner-SIG-488895484598608
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| Instagram:
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https://www.instagram.com/eisnersig/
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Faculty Teaching, Evaluation and Development (SIG #42)
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To investigate, promote, and support research and development on college teaching and learning, issues related to faculty evaluation and development, and student ratings of teaching.
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Laura Cruz, Penn State, State College, PA, Lcruzcontrol1@gmail.com
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$12.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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Faculty Teaching, Evaluation and Development
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Family, School, Community Partnerships (SIG #43)
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To engage with and promote rigorous and innovative research exploring the nature and impact of partnerships between families, schools, and diverse communities, and to encourage evidence-based practices and policies that influence children's learning and development.
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| Contact:
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Judy Paulick, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, jhp7h@virginia.edu; Nicole Megan Edwards, Rowan University, Allentown, PA, edwardsN@rowan.edu
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $8.00 (1 yr)
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Family, School, Community Partnerships
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Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance (SIG #44)
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To provide a forum for research in educational finance and its impact on policy for all levels and aspects of education.
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| Contact:
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David G. Martinez, University of South Carolina - Columbia, Irmo, SC, david.martinez.242@gmail.com
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance
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Graduate and Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines (SIG #168)
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To identify and support doctoral education as a distinct area of research in higher education; questions to be addressed include the following: How is "doctoral education" or "research education" conceived? What key changes are occurring in doctoral and research education? What opportunities do these changes present for challenging previous pedagogies and developing new ones?;
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Krisanna L. Machtmes, Ohio University, Athens, OH, machtmes@ohio.edu
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$20.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Graduate and Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines
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Grassroots Community & Youth Organizing for Education Reform (SIG #172)
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To advance research on community and youth organizing, particularly in low income communities and communities of color. We will work to build a research community that engages with practitioners in organizing groups, educational institutions and policy-making circles. We seek to foster research that examines the ways in which organizing efforts affect school improvement and educational equity, youth development, community/democratic revitalization and social justice.
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| Contact:
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Van T Lac, The University of Texas - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, vlac510@gmail.com
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Grassroots Community & Youth Organizing for Education Reform
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