AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

Annual Meeting

Orlando, Florida, USA

April 9 – 12, 2021

Deadline for Submissions: August 14, 2020

Conference Theme: Accepting Educational Responsibility

The 2021 AERA Annual Meeting Theme challenges us, as citizen-scholars, to work together using evidence-based practice in order to correct educational and social injustices not only in our own institutions but across our schools, communities, and society as a whole. As social studies researchers we have a heightened awareness of discrimination and injustice experienced by those who are racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse across societal contexts. We are called to renew our efforts to reflect critically upon ourselves and the work we do, analyze how effective our endeavors towards confronting injustice actually go, and effectively plan and carryout strategies towards the actualization of our efforts. It is in this context of accepting educational responsibility, that we invite submissions to the Social Studies Research SIG.

Looking toward the 2021 AERA Annual meeting, the Social Studies Research SIG welcomes contributions that include educators, community members, students, teachers, policy makers, families, and activists in an effort to engage in dialog surrounding our educational responsibility for the common good. In keeping with the theme of the 2021 AERA meeting, we seek papers that are collaborative, concerned with race/ism and equity, and interested in exploring “new, previously uncontemplated research questions and, perhaps, different methodological approaches to old problems”  within social studies education and research (AERA CFP). We hope you will consider sharing your work with the Social Studies Research SIG and join us in Orlando.