Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the new leadership team for SIG: Democratic Citizenship in Education! We are grateful for your trust and excited to help move our SIG forward towards our shared goals. We want to take this opportunity to thank our colleagues who established and led the group before us. We thank James Mitchell, Caroline Pryor, and others for their extraordinary work to sustain our mission over the years.
Ours is the only group at AERA that focuses on the critical work in integrating citizenship, democracy, and education. With 116 active members from all over the world, our scholarship encompasses a diversity of academic disciplines, theoretical frameworks, and critical perspectives. We will continue to welcome new members to our community and strengthen our work on multiple fronts. The leadership team is currently working on the following tasks:
We would like to see the list-serve be used more actively as a place for SIG members to share resources. We will draft norms for using the list-serve and share them out in the coming weeks.
In addition, below is a link to the YouTube video of the keynote address by Joel Westheimer at our 2021 meeting: https://youtu.be/IokCKEuezmU . Enjoy!
Sincerely and in solidarity
Tianlong (Tian) Yu, Chair, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, tyu@siue.edu
Ellen Middaugh, Secretary and Treasurer, San Jose State University, ellen.middaugh@sjsu.edu
Melissa Gibson, Program Chair, Marquette University, Melissa.gibson@marquette.edu Under constructions