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Four prominent lectures will be delivered by 2024 AERA award recipients at the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting. All times are in Mountain Time.
2024 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award Lecture Friday, April 25, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level - Mile High Ballroom 2BC and 3BC
Speaker: Kris D. Gutiérrez (University of California - Berkeley)
Title: Mutual Constitution, Learning as Movement, and Developmental Ecologies
Given the dramatic and dynamic sociopolitical, cultural, civic, and environmental shifts in the ecologies that currently constitute our daily lives, we need generative analytical frames that help us understand how resilient ecologies, their people and practices are and can be sustained. In contrast to individual notions of resilience, ecological resilience in this work refers to the system’s ability to shape and adapt to change and transform while sustaining the social welfare, resources, and social futures of participants—i.e., sociocultural systems such as towns, communities, educational and other activity systems. Employing a utopian social design-based methodological approach, I present two cases of resilient ecologies— one educational and the other a community—to illustrate ecologies as unbounded, with interlocking linkages across human life mutually constituting their formation and resilience. The talk explores how analytic frame of mutual constitution helps us avoid the tendency to separate individuals and practices from one another and the activities in which they participate and help to co-construct. Further, the analytic frame of mutual constitution brings attention to how learning occurs across multiple connected systems, to understand the role of collective learning and lived civics in the development of historical actors central to the sustainability of resilient ecologies.
2024 Early Career Award Lecture Thursday, April 24, 9:50 am to 11:20 am Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level - Mile High Ballroom 2BC and 3BC
Speaker: Travis J. Bristol (University of California - Berkeley)
Title: Diasporic (Dis)Connection: The School-based Experiences of Teachers of African Descent across the Americas
This talk begins by tracing my early meaning-making experiences around Diasporic connections: I am the son of South American immigrants who was born and raised in Brooklyn and grew up visiting family members in cities across three continents, Montreal, London, and Georgetown. Next, I share findings from my research studies conducted over the last decade on the experiences of Black teachers in several urban centers, Boston, New York City, Jackson, and Oakland. I then make a Diasporic turn, informed by my early experiences, to share emerging research on the school-based experiences of teachers of African descent across four Latin American countries: Brazil, Colombia, Panama, and Uruguay. I end by connecting themes about Diasporic (dis)connection on the school-based experiences of teachers of African descent across the Americas.
2024 E. F. Lindquist Award Lecture Friday, April 25, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level - Mile High Ballroom 2BC and 3BC
Speaker: Gregory J. Cizek (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
Title: Seven Questions for Educational Measurement Specialists
This presentation will pose seven questions that challenge diverse but common practices in educational measurement. Questions on topics such as the role of Differential Item Functioning (DIF), matching appropriate accommodations to test-taker needs, and the relevance of opportunity to learn will be examined. Suggestions for alternative ways of confronting these issues will be presented.
2024 Social Justice in Education Award Lecture Saturday, April 26, 3:20 pm to 4:50 pm Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level - Mile High Ballroom 2BC and 3BC
Speaker: Leah P. Hollis (Pennsylvania State University)
Title: Ain’t I an Academic? Ancestral Whisperings on Workplace Bullying
Couched in ancestral knowledge, this lecture examines how workplace bullying hurts higher education for individuals and the institution itself. While all people can be targeted, people of color who tend to have the most diminished power are more susceptible to workplace aggression and institutional betrayal. Workplace bullying has many forms inclusive of the silent treatment, microaggressions, bad behavior in general. After examining bullying tactics and some of the stress-related outcomes for targets, the lecture concludes with strategies for coping and wellness when faced with a bully at work.