Dear AERA Dewey Studies SIG members and friends,

This year we experienced wonderful sessions at the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting in Denver! We appreciate our reviewers and presenters from around the world, as well as all the officers for making the meeting a success. Thank you to all who participated in our sessions, business meetings, and the social dinner.

We are pleased to announce the Call for Proposal for the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. The deadline is July 25, 2025. We encourage submissions that are relevant to the conference theme: “Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research.” This year, AERA seeks “submissions that offer a new vision of education research as an intentional process and practice of futuring, through engagement with historical pasts and current tensions and challenges.” Dewey Studies SIG members are uniquely positioned to answer AERA’s organizing questions:

• How can we address our most pressing education challenges through inter- and trans disciplinary dialogue?
• What kinds of dialogue can we inspire when including historical perspectives on topics in proposed symposiums?
• How can we organize our findings with a keen eye on the past, present, and future?

We also encourage and welcome all submissions relating to our mission of “fostering the presence of inquiry in education related in letter and in spirit to the American philosopher, John Dewey. Such inquiry may be discipline based as in philosophy, history, curriculum studies or interdisciplinary. Non-empirical scholarship is typical but empirical studies are also welcome.”

Your participation in Dewey Studies SIG ensures the continued presence of Deweyan scholarship, Pragmatist philosophy, and progressive educational practice at AERA.

To help refine your AERA 2026 Proposals, we will be holding an online workshop on Thursday, July 17, Noon-1:30 pm EDT. This interactive workshop guides early-career researchers and graduate students through the process of crafting compelling conference proposals. Attendees seeking individualized feedback are asked to share their draft proposal by Saturday, July 12th. To register, please see the attached flyer to the SIG members email.

Additionally, transitions have occurred with our SIG officers. So much gratitude to Dr. Hyunju Lee(University of Oklahoma) for her service as the SIG Secretary/Treasurer (2023-2025). We welcome our newest SIG officers: Dr. James Yang (United International College) as Communications Officer (2025-2027) and Rebecca Taylor (Teachers College, Columbia University) as our first official Graduate Student Representative (2025-2027).

Our first Summer Webinar: Exploring “The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education" (2025, Editors: Jason Goulah, James W. Garrison, and Gonzalo Obelleiro) is scheduled for July 14^th. Please mark your calendar and use the registration information in the members email.

Lastly, we invite you to share information about new publications, upcoming events and opportunities, or resources that might interest Dewey Studies SIG members. Please send that information to SIG Chair, Jiwon Kim (jkim@monmouth.edu).

Also, be part of our online community! Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1124307752630474

Sincerely,

Jiwon Kim

SIG Chair