Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2025-2026
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 | H–Q
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Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies (SIG #178)
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| Purpose:
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Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies
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| Contact:
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Edmund S. Adjapong, Seton Hall University, Bronx, NY, edmund.adjapong@shu.edu; Stevie D. Johnson, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, thedrview@gmail.com
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies
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| Instagram:
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https://www.instagram.com/aerahiphopsig/
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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (SIG #48)
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| Purpose:
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Formally the American Indian and Alaska Native SIG, we have evolved in name and focus to promote a better understanding of theoretical-, policy-, and practice-related issues that influence the quality of traditional and contemporary education among indigenous peoples.
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| Contact:
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Tiffany D. Smith, AISES, Blanchard, OK, tsmith@aises.org
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| Dues:
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/AERAIPASIG/
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Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific and Beyond (SIG #146)
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| Purpose:
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To research Indigenous education related to the peoples of the Pacific and Pacific Rim, Asia, Africa, and Europe. This research includes Indigenous knowledge and practices that uplift the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples.
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| Contact:
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Nadell Karatea-Kokiri, Massey University, PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand, N.I.Karatea-Kokiri@massey.ac.nz
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| Dues:
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific and Beyond
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Innovative School Transformation and Reform (SIG #154)
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| Purpose:
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To generate, analyze, interpret, and disseminate research findings related to the implementation and impact of comprehensive school reform.
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| Contact:
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Kathleen Provinzano, Binghamton University - SUNY, Mountain Top, PA, kprovinzano@binghamton.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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Innovative School Transformation and Reform
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Instructional Technology (SIG #52)
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| Purpose:
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To encourage, promote, and support research on the design and development of instruction and the computer-based, electronic, and non-electronic media technologies that are used for its delivery.
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| Contact:
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Jill Stefaniak, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, jill.stefaniak@uga.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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Instructional Technology
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/aerasigit
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International Studies (SIG #54)
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| Purpose:
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To provide a forum for exchanging information among educators involved in research, planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of international studies.
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| Contact:
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Delois L. Maxwell, Morgan State University, Parkville, MD, dmax19501@comcast.net
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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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International Studies
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Language and Social Processes (SIG #58)
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| Purpose:
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To explore directions in and issues of language and discourse practices, literacy, and learning processes and social contexts through studies grounded in sociocultural, constructivist and constructionist perspectives.
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| Contact:
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Laura A Taylor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, taylorl@rhodes.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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Language and Social Processes
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1423636351209251/
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Large Scale Assessment (SIG #141)
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| Purpose:
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To provide a forum for discussion of the status, issues, and concerns related to large-scale assessment, including practices and innovations in state assessment programs.
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| Contact:
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Large Scale Assessment
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Law and Education (SIG #59)
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| Purpose:
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To focus on legal issues affecting K-12 public and private education, as well as post-secondary education.
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| Contact:
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Law and Education
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Leadership for School Improvement (SIG #101)
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To examine how leadership of teachers, principals, and superintendents influences instructional capacity resulting in improved student outcomes and how policy guides this collaborative effort.
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| Contact:
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Alison Wilson, University of Houston, Houston, TX, aswilso6@cougarnet.uh.edu
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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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Leadership for School Improvement
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Leadership for Social Justice (SIG #165)
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To promote social justice teaching, research, service, and policymaking agendas, with the corollary aim of seeking to proactively improve educational leadership as a means of addressing equity concerns for underrepresented populations throughout P-20 education; also to share innovative, promising, and research-based programs, policies, and teaching strategies and proactively advocate on behalf of underrepresented populations in educational leadership.
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| Contact:
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Leslie Ann Locke, Minnesota State University - Mankato, Maple Plain, MN, leslie.locke@mnsu.edu
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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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Leadership for Social Justice
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/150822794956627
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Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership (SIG #129)
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| Purpose:
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The LTEL SIG brings together professors and graduate students of educational leadership and administration, discipline specialists, educational theorists, curriculum developers, instructional technology specialists, learning specialists, educational researchers, classroom experts, practitioners, policymakers, and others concerned with Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership. The LTEL SIG provides a forum for:
A managed conversation on issues related to learning and teaching in Educational Leadership and Administration; the integration of theoretical quantitative and qualitative studies of learning and teaching in Educational Leadership; discussion of investigations conducted in real educational settings, including investigations involving application of technology to learning and instruction; exploration of innovative methodologies; analysis of the implications of research and practice for learning and teaching in Educational Leadership; and assessment of the relationship of learning and teaching in Educational Leadership to policy development at local, state, and national levels.
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| Contact:
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Erin Anderson, University of Denver, Denver, CO, erin.anderson249@du.edu
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership
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Learning Sciences (SIG #39)
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| Purpose:
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Purpose: To bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives and empirical approaches to the study of learning as it occurs in school, online, in the workplace, at home, and in the community, and to the design of novel environments with the potential to facilitate learning more effectively.
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| Contact:
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Kathryn Lanouette, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, lanouette@wm.edu
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| Dues:
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.50 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Learning Sciences
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/SIGATL
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Lives of Teachers (SIG #62)
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To promote the interchange of ideas and scholarly activities focused on inquiry into the lives of teachers. Teachers shall be defined as those working with students in classroom and tutorial settings, from pre-school through university. Research shall be viewed as inclusive of methods appropriate to the question of study and topics such as teacher narrative, biography, research on teacher development, including career trajectories, teacher characteristics, beliefs, and attitudes, and teaching as a profession; accounts of teachers lives in different times and in different countries; and portrayal of teachers in written literature, film and television.
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| Contact:
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Lora Bartlett, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, lorab@ucsc.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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Lives of Teachers
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/283212348677268/
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Longitudinal Studies (SIG #63)
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| Purpose:
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To support and foster the understanding of longitudinal research designs and analyses in education and the use and dissemination of longitudinal data and substantive findings, including data from national (e.g., NCES), state (e.g., state administrative/tracking systems), and local (e.g., district) sources.
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| Contact:
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Longitudinal Studies
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Mentorship and Mentoring Practices (SIG #66)
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To foster mentoring programs and experiences, initiating research on the topic and providing networking and support.
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| Contact:
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Nora Dominguez, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, noradg@unm.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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Mentorship and Mentoring Practices
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Middle-Level Education Research (SIG #88)
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| Purpose:
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To improve, promote, and disseminate educational research reflecting early adolescence and middle-level education.
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| Contact:
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Lisa M Harrison, Ohio University, Athens, OH, harrisl1@ohio.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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http://mlersig.net/
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/mlersig/
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Mixed Methods Research (SIG #158)
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To support, encourage, and increase dialogue and idea exchange among educational researchers utilizing mixed methods and those interested in integrating qualitative and quantitative research approaches.
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| Contact:
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Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, gheadley@udel.edu
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| Dues:
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Mixed Methods Research
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/aerammrsig/
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Montessori Education (SIG #181)
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To support, promote, and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of Montessori education and philosophy, in both the public and private sector,
through diverse research approaches and collaborations.
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| Contact:
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Angela Murray, University of Kansas, Eudora, KS, akmurray@ku.edu
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| Dues:
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$5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Montessori Education
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/AERAMontessoriSIG
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| LinkedIn:
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8446484/
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Moral Development and Education (SIG #67)
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| Purpose:
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To promote discussion about controversies and areas of agreement within the fields of moral development and education, and to provide informal opportunities for social interaction.
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| Contact:
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Brandy P Quinn, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, b.quinn@tcu.edu
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| Dues:
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$12.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Moral Development and Education
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Motivation in Education (SIG #68)
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To advance the understanding of motivational processes in education, particularly by promoting research, exchanging ideas and perspectives, and by developing practices and interventions to improve learner motivation.
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| Contact:
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Jason A. Chen, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, jachen@wm.edu
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| Dues:
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$20.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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http://motsig.org
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Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (SIG #162)
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To provide a forum for the introduction, promotion, consideration, interaction of theory, research and practices regarding multicultural and multiethnic education, broadly defined, within all educational, cultural, societal and social settings, contexts, levels and locations.
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| Contact:
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Christopher J.P. Sewell, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, drchristophersewell@gmail.com
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$10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Theory, Research, and Practice
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/AERAMulticulturalEducationSIG
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| Instagram:
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https://www.instagram.com/aeramcme/
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Multilevel Modeling (SIG #140)
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To promote the understanding, use, and dissemination of information regarding hierarchical linear modeling.
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| Contact:
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Yan Wang, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, Yan_Wang1@uml.edu
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| Dues:
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$8.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Multilevel Modeling
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Narrative Research (SIG #145)
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The Narrative Research SIG (Special Interest Group) of AERA is dedicated to supporting conversations about the place of narratives in educational research including but not limited to phenomenological, literary, critical, and performance conceptions of narrative analysis.
The purpose of the Narrative Research SIG is to provide a forum for the exchange of information among individuals interested in informing/rethinking narrative research through a variety of narrative research studies in/with participants in a variety of educational settings.
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| Contact:
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Min Wang, Houghton University, Houghton, NY, mwang35@crimson.ua.edu
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $6.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Narrative Research
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Organizational Theory (SIG #73)
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To encourage scholarly inquiry and debate relating to traditional and alternative views of educational organizations.
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| Contact:
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Jose Eos Trinidad, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, eostrinidad@berkeley.edu
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$10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Organizational Theory
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Paulo Freire (SIG #159)
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To honor Freire’s legacy by promoting scholarship that applies, extends, critiques, and reinvents Freirean pedagogy. Also, to promote historical scholarship that looks at the life of Paulo Freire and the context of his ideas and practices. Finally, to act as a catalyst for the creation of new forms of critical pedagogies that build upon the foundation that Freire established.
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| Contact:
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Inny Accioly, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, innyaccioly@gmail.com
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$10.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Paulo Freire
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/PauloFreireAERASIG
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Philosophical Studies in Education (SIG #76)
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Dedicated to the philosophical study of education and encourages scholarship within all types of philosophical study.
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| Contact:
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Samantha Deane, University of Notre Dame, North Weymouth, MA, sdeane2@nd.edu
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$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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https://aerasig76.wixsite.com/sig76
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Politics of Education (SIG #152)
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To foster and support the conduct, dissemination, discussion, and application of research on the political functions and outcomes of education at all levels.
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| Contact:
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DeMarcus A Jenkins, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, demarcus@upenn.edu
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$20.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Politics of Education
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Qualitative Research (SIG #82)
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To provide opportunities for discussion related to the philosophy, purposes, and methodological issues surrounding the use of qualitative research in social and educational contexts.
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| Contact:
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Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, jrwolgemuth@usf.edu
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$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
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| Website:
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Qualitative Research
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Queer Studies (SIG #60)
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To foster empirical, interpretive, and critical educational research relating to queer studies, and to network individuals and organizations conducting or supporting such research.
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| Contact:
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Angel D. Gonzalez, California State University - Fresno, Fresno, CA, angonzalez@mail.fresnostate.edu
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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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Queer Studies
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| Facebook:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/aeraqsig/
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