2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award—Currently Seeking Applications
Annually, the EE/CD SIG awards the Outstanding Dissertation Award for a recent dissertation of exceptional merit. The recipient will receive a plaque from the SIG and a monetary gift at the EE/CD SIG Business meeting. The recipient also receives an automatic invitation to present the dissertation work as part of the EE/CD Business Meeting.
The criteria for this award are: 1) A completed and defended dissertation accepted by the Graduate School of the nominee’s university within two years of the deadline for submission. 2) A study that investigates a topic related to the development of children between birth and age 8, including studies focused on families, teachers and others who care for and educate young children; 3) A nominating professor who is a current member of AERA.
Procedures: To be considered for the award, please submit the following items by e-mail:
One letter of faculty endorsement from a member of the student’s dissertation committee who is an AERA member, attesting that the dissertation was completed by the student during the time period specified and that the faculty member nominating or endorsing the nomination served on the dissertation committee. Please also include the oral defense date. This letter should include a brief clarification of the purposes, scope, and quality of the student’s dissertation research, as well as an explanation of how the dissertation contributes to the field of early childhood, child development, or early education.
A title page for the dissertation (including university/college, name of the professor chairing the dissertation committee and a complete list of committee members). In addition, please add to the title page complete contact information (postal and e-mail) of either the student or the nominator that can be used for all correspondence regarding the award.
The Table of Contents from the dissertation.
A journal-length manuscript summarizing the study derived from the dissertation and written by the nominee. This manuscript should adhere to the APA manual’s (5th ed.) guidelines for manuscript preparation, should be approximately 25-30 pages (double-spaced), and should be geared toward publication. The summary should include: objectives/purpose; perspectives/theoretical framework; methods/mode of inquiry; data sources and analyses; results/discussion; and conclusion and educational/scientific importance of study. The summary should advance the scholarly publication potential of the research and will be judged primarily by a panel of scholars in the field and former dissertation winners.
A 1-2 page summary (abstract) of the study to be published in the SIG newsletter should the award be given to the recipient.
Please send inquiries, nominations, and all required items by November 15, 2013 via e-mail to: Amber Friesen, afriesen@sfsu.edu
2014 Early Research Career Award—Currently Seeking Applications
We are currently seeking applications for the EE/CD SIG Early Research Career Award. The Early Education/Child Development (EE/CD) SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annually presents the EE/CD SIG Early Research Career Award. This award is made to an individual with a promising record as a researcher and scholar in the early childhood field, as evidenced through an emerging record of a research agenda, publications, and other scholarly activity. Candidates for the EE/CD Early Research Career Award are within the first five years of having received their doctoral degree. Recipients of this award receive a monetary award in the amount of $500 and are invited to present a brief synopsis of their research at the SIG business meeting. Nominations for this award may come from members of the EE/CD SIG. Complete nominations will include the following in ELECTRONIC format (e.g., PDF files):
1) A letter from the nominator with specific information justifying the nomination, as well as the current employment status of the nominee;
2) A second letter of support for the nomination from anyone in the field of early childhood/child development who can speak to the merits and relevance of the nominee’s scholarly activity;
3) Recent curriculum vitae with complete bibliographic information on the nominee; and
4) Copies of 2 publications representative of the nominee’s scholarly contributions to the early childhood/child development field.
If the nominator was the dissertation chair or otherwise closely involved with the candidate’s doctoral studies, the second letter of support should come from someone who was not involved in the nominee’s doctoral degree program. The second letter does NOT have to come from a SIG member, but must be someone in he field of child development and early childhood education.
All nominations should be sent by November 15, 2013 in ELECTRONIC format to the following address: Marty Lash, mlash@kent.edu.
2014 Student Travel Grants—Currently Seeking Applications
Awards will be available for graduate students for travel to the 2014 conference for either first-time attendees or presenters. The deadline is January 31st, 2014.
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