WERA to Hold Two Open Forums
WERA to Hold Two Open Forums
 
Vancouver Preview, April 17, 2012
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The World Education Research Association is holding open forums on Poverty and the Opportunity to Learn Worldwide and International Issues in Education Research Ethics and Conduct on Tuesday. The forums provide an opportunity for meeting attendees to contribute ideas and spot issues that can importantly add to the work of two newly established WERA task forces.

The Task Force on International Issues in Education Research Ethics and Conduct is charged with examining ethics codes and related guidance that have developed worldwide to inform the professional conduct of education research scientists, scholars, and students. This session will be held in the Vancouver Convention Centre, West Room 113, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Felice J. Levine, (WERA Secretary-General), American Educational Research Association; Ingrid Gogolin, (WERA Past President), Hamburg University; and Melissa Anderson, University of Minnesota, will serve as cochairs.

The Task Force on Poverty and the Opportunity to Learn Worldwide is charged with examining the state of research related to poverty and sustained conditions of economic deprivation on learning and on access and opportunities to learn. This session will be held in the Vancouver Convention Centre, East Room 14, 12:25 p.m. - 1:55 p.m. The task force is cochaired by Carol D. Lee, (WERA Council), Northwestern University; Liesel Ebersöhn, (WERA Council), University of Pretoria; and Michael Nettles, Chair of the Salzburg Global Seminar “Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide” and ETS.

These task forces will produce major research reports that can help guide education research and relevant education policy on significant worldwide issues for years to come. Task force reports will be distributed widely to relevant research and policy audiences and made freely accessible on the WERA website. These two forums are an early opportunity to weigh in.