Dear AERA Dewey Studies SIG #56 Members,
This year we had excellent 2024 AERA sessions and meetings in Philadelphia! Our roundtable session had an interesting and meaningful conversation about how Dewey is relevant to today’s life--from AI to school garden and politics to nature experiences. Dewey Studies SIG paper session was crowded with many Deweyan education lovers in the audience (the pictures do not capture the standing room only in the back of the room)! We appreciate our reviewers, presenters, and attendees from around the world, as well as all the officers for making the meeting a success. Thank you to all who participated.
OPPORTUNITIES
SUBMIT
We are pleased to announce that the portal for submissions is now open for the AERA 2025 conference. Please make sure to consider submitting your work to our Dewey Studies SIG. More submissions allow us more allocations for accepted papers and sessions. For more details, see Call for Proposals flyer is on Dewey Studies Sig Facebook page here The Link to the call is here
REVIEW
If you missed the chance to officially volunteer to review submissions through the AERA website, you can volunteer directly with the Chair or Program Chair by July 26. Volunteering is a great way to get involved with the SIG.
MEMBERSHIP
The membership of Dewey Studies SIG has declined in recent years. This is a trend impacting many smaller SIGs throughout AERA. As of now, we are a little below the minimum number of members needed. Without Dewey Studies SIG, AERA will no longer have a special place for Deweyan education scholars and practitioners. Please consider the following ways to help us reach our goal:
We are creating various opportunities for members to stay connected beyond AERA’s annual conference. This will include periodic webinars and regular communications. As a SIG member our hope members not just present a paper at the annual meeting but engage in a community of Deweyan scholars throughout the year.
UPDATES
So much gratitude to Carol Rodgers for her service as the SIG Program Chair (2020-2022) and the Chair (2022-2024) for the past four years. She will be the Past SIG Chair for the next two years.
Welcome to our newest SIG officer, Jessica Heybach, Western Michigan University, as Program Chair/Chair-Elect (2-year term begins in 2024).
We will soon also be announcing opportunities to participate (stay tuned). If you have an initiative or a collaboration that you’d like to see our SIG engaging in, please reach out to SIG Chair Jiwon Kim jkim@monmouth.edu
Suggested Questions:
Please register by emailing Dr Alison Taysum on alisontaysum@gmail.com by 05 September 2023
The 2nd Dewey Studies SIG Dialogic Seminar is on different dates/time zones:
Tuesday 10th October 2023
3.15 – 4.00 pm Pacific Daylight Time (00.00 CET)
5.15 – 6.00 pm Central Standard Time,
6.15 – 7.00 pm Eastern Standard Time.
Wednesday 11th October 2023
5.30 – 6.15 pm Damascus Time, Arabian Standard Time
4.30 – 5.15 pm Central European Time
3.30 – 4.15 pm West Africa Time, Western European Summer Time, British Summer Time
Thursday 12th October 2023
6.15 – 7.00 pm Australia Time (CET 9.00 am)
5.15 - 6.00 pm Japan Standard Time (CET 10.00 am)
5.15 – 6.00 pm Korean Time
4.15 – 5.00 pm China Standard Time
3:15 – 4.00 pm Western Indonesia Time
Friday 13th October 2023
5.15 – 6.00 pm São Paulo Time (10.00 pm CET)
4.15 – 5.00 pm Santiago Time
3.15 – 4.00 pm Bogota Time
Reading Chapter 2 Education As a Social Function available online open access here https://bit.ly/46Vlrcl
You are invited to read the chapter and engage with the SIG’s dialogue addressing the suggested questions below. We appreciate you are busy professional educators so please join the dialogue if you don’t have time to read the chapter, or if you can only read the summary (circa 5 lines) and you can read the chapter afterwards if you wish.
1.How and in what ways does Dewey think students are supported to integrate different codes from the family; on the street; in the workshop or store; in the religious association?
2.How and in what ways does Dewey think students might have opportunities in their classroom environment to compare and contrast these different codes to develop a holistic, but provisional synthesized code?
3.Is it possible for education institutions to offer what Dewey calls a steadying or integrating office in the current curriculum offer?
4.How and in what ways might the current curriculum be modified to offer what Dewey calls a steadying or integrating office that develops students’ faculty of judgement?
5.Your questions.
Please register by emailing Dr Alison Taysum on alisontaysum@gmail.com by 03 October
Dates and Times of Future Dialogic Seminars TBC
3. Book Recommendation: Discovering John Dewey in the Twenty-First Century - Dialogues with a diverse group of scholars relevant to classrooms https://bit.ly/43GfkWe
Dialogues with Scholars include: Larry Hickman, Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Apple, Herbert M. Kliebard, Nel Noddings, Ellen Condliffe Lagermann, Daniel Tanner, Judith M. Green, Walter Feinberg, Robert B. Westbrook, Fred Newmann, David Hansen, Christine Sleeter, Jim Garrison, C. Gregg Jorgensen.
Full Reference: Jorgensen, C. G. (2017) Discovering John Dewey in the Twenty-First Century. Dialogues on the Present and Future of Education. New York: Palgave MacMillan.
4. An open access article by the SIG Chair Prof Carol Rodgers ‘Doing Dewey’ https://bit.ly/44If3n9
Abstract
In this article, I describe and analyze my experience as a teacher of, and a teacher who does, Dewey. In the process I hope to draw a picture of what it means to strive for integrity between theory and practice. I talk about why it matters to work from a theory of education, especially in an age where “clinical practice” is vaunted and theory is viewed as expendable, even as a slightly shameful waste of time. I focus on particular Deweyan principles, primarily the principle of reflection, and illustrate how that theory manifests itself in my practice. I argue that “doing Dewey” is an enactment of philosophy. Finally, I hold that a theory of teaching cannot be separated from the self who practices it.
Full Reference: Rodgers, C. (2014). Doing Dewey. Occasional Paper Series, (32). DOI: https://doi.org/10.58295/2375-3668.1052
5. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning; Shanghai Open University (2023) Institutional practices of implementing lifelong learning in higher education: research report. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, https://bit.ly/43CP3Zc ISBN 978-92-820-1255-0
Higher education institutions are key players in promoting lifelong learning. By offering a variety of educational programmes in different modalities, they address the diverse needs and interests of learners. By establishing flexible learning pathways, they help ensure continuity of learning throughout life. And by maintaining close interaction with the private sector and local communities, they contribute to socially relevant teaching and research, fulfilling an important social function.
This research report presents six case studies of universities in different regions of the world and offers insights into the practical implementation of lifelong learning in the higher education context. It examines regulations and strategic frameworks that support universities’ commitment to lifelong learning, describes how they are responding to new learning demands, and provides examples of specific programmes and initiatives that promote lifelong learning. The report also discusses the challenges these institutions face and how they are addressing them.
The case studies were developed as part of a joint research project between the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and Shanghai Open University on the contribution of higher education institutions to lifelong learning.
6.Focus on your work (invitation for your submissions for our SIGs newsletter 100 – 200 words).
Please email your research abstracts of 100 – 200 words to alisontaysum@gmail.com for inclusion in the termly Dewey Studies SIG newsletter. Your abstract may have a link to a fuller paper, website or project that may be the focus of a future Dialogic Seminar. Your ideas can be discussed at the AERA Dewey Studies Business Meeting and underpin the development of a submission for the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting.
7. Invitation for members to post your articles and books relevant to Dewey's work.
Kindly send your articles and books references relevant to Dewey’s work to alisontaysum@gmail.com for inclusion in the termly Dewey Studies SIG newsletter.
Wishing you a relaxing summer, a good start to your new academic year and look forward to meeting you at the Dewey Dialogic Seminars and AERA 2024 Annual Meeting.end of newsletter.
27.07.23 here is a umass boston job posting for your information:
https://employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/job/519919/assistant-professor-curriculum-and-instruction
umass boston considers itself a “research university with a teaching soul.” we are boston’s only public university, the third most diverse university in the united states, an urban-serving institution (and part of the msi program), and one of the best colleges of education in the nation. we are also located on a beautiful seaside campus in the vibrant neighborhood of dorchester.
this is a unique position with a 1-1 teaching load and the remaining workload dedicated to overseeing and developing our teacher preparation programs that span from early childhood to secondary education with an emphasis on justice and equity. this faculty member will work with our excellent practicum office staff who are responsible for placing student teachers and completing state teacher licensure tasks.
posted by request of prof carol rodgers
chair, dewey studies sig
dear dewey colleagues,
we invite your submission of proposals (this includes papers and alternative sessions, e.g., demonstrations and performances; workshops; symposia; working roundtables; off-site visits) for the forthcoming dewey studies special interest group (sig #56) of the 2024 aera annual meeting. the place-based component will be held in philadelphia, pa, april 11-14, and the virtual component will be hosted on an online platform and mobile app april 25-26.
we especially encourage experientially-based proposals, in the spirit of dewey and philosophy in practice.
dewey studies sig provides a forum for scholars, activist-scholars, and practitioners interested in pragmatist philosophies and theories of practice aimed at democratic ends. we are dedicated to studies that engage john dewey’s writings directly and those that embrace the progressive, pragmatist intellectual tradition broadly speaking, including themes of social justice, care, and engaged critical reflection. we seek an inclusive scholarly community dedicated to democratic societal and educational ends, including work that takes up where dewey left off.
in this spirit, we look forward to a wide range of proposals that echo these themes. we welcome conceptual papers, empirical studies, performance, interactive workshops, and other forms of creative inquiry. teacher voices and the voices of learners, work from other countries where dewey has made a particular impact, and social-justice-oriented themes that bring out this aspect of dewey’s work, are also of interest. in addition, we encourage submissions that address the 2024 aera meeting theme: "dismantling racial injustice and constructing educational possibilities: a call to action." as the annual meeting theme notes, education research must remain “relevant” to “racial, ethnic, gender, and other demographic changes,” ... “constructing educational possibilities across p–20 systems”. specifically, in what ways can our historical understandings of dewey, in light of these issues, create new deweyan narratives and practices today? there are a number of openings that the meeting theme presents that align with dewey’s work: democracy, dialogue and communication, community engagement, inquiry, critical and collaborative reflection.
please note that we especially welcome proposals from graduate students and those in their early career stage, and have awards to assist their travels to the annual meeting. also, if you are a graduate student or know anyone who is, please feel free to contact us with questions, ideas, or suggestions, both before and during the 2024 annual aera meeting. this may pertain to research, job searches, mentoring, careers in the fields of philosophy of practice, philosophy of education, teacher education, or teaching and learning.
submission for the 2024 annual meeting will close: monday, july 31, 2023 (11:59 p.m. pdt). please encourage your colleagues, including graduate students and teachers, to submit to our sig #56 even if they are not yet members.
for more information, please check 2024 annual meeting call for paper and session submissions. if you have any questions, please feel free to contact program chair, jiwon kim (jkim@monmouth.edu) or sig chair, carol rodgers (crodgers@albany.edu).
best wishes,
program chair: jiwon kim, monmouth university
chair: carol rodgers, university at albany
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we are looking forward to receiving interesting proposals (this includes papers and alternative proposals, e.g. demonstrations and performances; workshops; symposia; working roundtables; off-site visits) for the forthcoming dewey studies special interest group (sig #56) of the aera annual meeting taking place in chicago, il & virtual, april 13-17, 2023. we especially encourage experientially-based proposals, in the spirit of dewey.
dewey studies sig provides a forum for scholars, activist-scholars, and practitioners interested in pragmatist philosophies and theories of practice aimed at democratic ends. we are dedicated to studies that engage john dewey’s writings directly and those that take up the progressive, pragmatist intellectual tradition broadly speaking, including themes of social justice, care, and engaged critical reflection. we seek an inclusive scholarly community dedicated to democratic societal and educational ends, including work that takes up where dewey left off.
in this spirit, we invite you to submit a wide range of proposals that address deweyan philosophy as well as projects that echo what dewey both stood for and pointed toward – democracy, interaction between learner and world, interaction among learners, continuity, experience, reflection, justice, and growth. we welcome conceptual papers, empirical studies, performance, interactive workshops and other forms of creative inquiry. teacher voices and the voices of learners, work from other countries where dewey has made a particular impact, and social-justice-oriented themes that bring out this aspect of dewey’s work, are also of interest. in addition, we encourage submissions that address the 2023 program theme: "interrogating consequential education research in pursuit of truth." there are a number of openings that aera president presents that align with dewey’s work: truth, evidence, dialogue and communication, community engagement, inquiry, and collaborative reflection.
please note that we are also developing mentoring sessions for graduate students. if you are a graduate student or know anyone who is, please feel free to contact us with ideas for discussion, both before and during the 2023 annual aera meeting. this may pertain to research, job searches, careers in the fields of philosophy of practice, philosophy or education, teacher education, or teaching and learning.
submission period ends: wednesday july 27, 2022 (11:59 p.m. pdt). please encourage your colleagues, including graduate students and teachers, to submit to our sig #56 even if they are not yet members.
please note the aera guidelines for the submissions. see more information about the aera 2023 conference.
please feel free to contact program chair, jiwon kim (jkim@monmouth.edu) or sig chair, carol rodgers (crodgers@albany.edu) with questions.
program graduate assistant: matthew livingston, university at albany
dear dewey studies sig members,the john dewey society is looking forward to our 2022 annual meeting in san diego. our theme is border justice and interamerican cooperation. we are meeting on wednesday, april 20, just prior to the start of the american educational research association conference.we are pleased to welcome christopher tirres as our john dewey memorial lecturer. dr. tirres will be speaking about the role that art played in the aftermath of the 2019 shootings in el paso, texas. in our john dewey symposium, we will welcome a stellar group of scholar-activists to talk about land rights in the border region, led by wayne yang. we are also planning a border tour with activists from the american friends service committee which will help us understand, up close, the violence that has been inflicted on the land and those living on it.we have recently extended the deadline for proposed papers to february 7. please consider sharing a proposal with us or encouraging a doctoral student with whom you work to do so.finally, if you know you'd like to come, we invite you to let us know by taking this brief survey. as with all jds events, the conference itself will be free and open to the public. this year, however, we will have a voluntary registration fee that will be part of a land tax we will use to support those who are struggling for land rights in the border region.on behalf of the john dewey society, i wish you a safe and productive semester. and please do hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.sincerely,kyle greenwaltgreenwlt@msu.edujds president
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