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Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2023-2024
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This directory of AERA SIGs is in alphabetical order. Websites & email addresses, when available, are listed. Although we check this page for errors frequently if you should notice a non-working link please let us know. If your SIG is interested in creating or moving its webpage to the AERA website, please let us know.

SIGs: | A–G | H–Q | R–Z | All |

A–G

Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Evaluation in Education Preparation (SIG #174)
Purpose: The purpose of the SIG is the accumulation and interpretation of research findings associated with CAEP accreditation, state review processes, or assessment and evaluation of the graduates of educator preparation programs and the quality of the programs themselves.
Contact: Carla Lynn Tanguay, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, ctanguay@gsu.edu
Dues: $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Evaluation in Education Preparation
X: https://twitter.com/AERA_AAPE_SIG
Action Research (SIG #2)
Purpose: The Action Research SIG builds community among those who are engaged in action research and those who teach others to do action research. This is accomplished through dialog about professional development strategies, educational practices and theory, and methods of action research.
Contact: Elizabeth Azukas, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bethlehem, PA, lizazukas@gmail.com
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aeraarsig/current-news
Adolescence and Youth Development (SIG #3)
Purpose: To bring together educators, researchers, and youth advocates interested in examining ways to improve upon the experiences, behaviors, and perceptions of adolescence and youth as they develop over time. This SIG includes a cross section of researchers interested in diverse topics associated with adolescence and youth development.
Contact: Amy L. Chapman, Arizona State University, Florham Park, NJ, a.b.chapman@gmail.com
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Adolescence and Youth Development
Adult Literacy and Adult Education (SIG #4)
Purpose: Dedicated to research development, policy, and practice in adult literacy and adult education. This SIG takes an interdisciplinary, lifespan perspective on learning and instruction among diverse populations.
Contact: Leah Katherine Saal, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, lksaal@loyola.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Adult Literacy and Adult Education
Advanced Studies of National Databases (SIG #6)
Purpose: To advance knowledge of the contexts and practices of education through facilitating awareness and understanding of the rigorous research methods required for valid and reliable analysis of national and state level databases.
Contact: Walter L. Leite, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, walter.leite@coe.ufl.edu
Dues: $6.00 (1 yr)
Website: Advanced Studies of National Databases
Advanced Technologies for Learning (SIG #7)
Purpose: To design new technologies that structure educational environments and transform educational practice, and to help the AERA community understand and influence the use of advanced technologies.
Contact: Ying Xu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, yxying@umich.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SIGATL
X: https://twitter.com/SIG_ATL_LS
Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education (SIG #53)
Purpose: This international inter-disciplinary SIG offers a space for visual artworks, live performance and theoretical/conceptual praxis, facilitating a platform for artistic researchers and practitioners.
Contact: Daniel X. Harris, RMIT University, Carlton, Australia, daniel.harris@rmit.edu.au
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Arts-Inquiry-SIG-101445872066731
Arts and Learning (SIG #8)
Purpose: Recent themes include: arts performance and process in curriculum; arts integration, assessment, and criticism; cultural issues; semiotics creative process; aesthetic education; alternative research methodologies; and constructivism.
Contact: Joy Gaulden Bertling, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, jbertling@utk.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
Website: Arts and Learning
Arts-Based Educational Research (SIG #9)
Purpose: To provide a community for those who view education through artistic lenses, who use a variety of arts-based methodologies, and who communicate understandings through diverse genres.
Contact: Camea Davis, Research Partnership for Professional Learning, Atlanta, GA, cdavis@rpplpartnership.org
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: https://abersigaera.weebly.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/888595361932531
X: https://twitter.com/aber_sig
Bilingual Education Research (SIG #12)
Purpose: To promote research in bilingual education and to provide a forum for innovative approaches in this field of inquiry. This SIG addresses all ethnoliguistically diverse groups.
Contact: Magdalena Pando, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, mpando@mail.smu.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr)
Website: Bilingual Education Research
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1477801139116319/
X: https://twitter.com/AERA_BerSig
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bilingualersig/
Biographical and Documentary Research (SIG #13)
Purpose: To explore methodological issues in biographical and documentary research.
Contact: Lucy E. Bailey, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, lucy.bailey@okstate.edu
Dues: $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Biographical and Documentary Research
Bourdieu in Educational Research (SIG #185)
Purpose: To provide a space for those interested in Bourdieu’s oeuvre where we explore and reflect on the use of his theories and concepts.
Contact: Garth Stahl, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, garth.stahl@gmail.com; Guanglun Michael Mu, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia, michael.mu@unisa.edu.au
Dues: $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Bourdieu in Educational Research
X: https://twitter.com/AERABourdieuSIG
Brain, Neurosciences, and Education (SIG #14)
Purpose: Provides a venue for research in the neurosciences that may inform and inspire educational research, and for rigorous educational research thus informed.
Contact: Luciano Cid, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, luciano.cid@biola.edu
Dues: $20.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Brain, Neurosciences, and Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bnesig.
X: https://twitter.com/bnesig
Career and Technical Education (SIG #134)
Purpose: To discuss topics in vocational/career and technical education, career development, human resource development, career issues in the schools (Grades K-12), postsecondary education, adult and lifelong learning, and workforce education.
Contact: Kesha S. Valentine, Old Dominion University, Springfield, VA, Ksvalent@odu.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Career and Technical Education
Caribbean and African Studies in Education (SIG #86)
Purpose: To encourage, conduct, coordinate, and disseminate research on education within and between Caribbean and African countries.
Contact: Dave A. Louis, University of Houston, Houston, TX, dalouis@uh.edu; Verna Charleen Knight, University of the West Indies - Cave Hill, Bridgetown, Barbados, verna.knight@cavehill.uwi.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: Caribbean and African Studies in Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aeraCASE/
X: https://twitter.com/aeracasesig86
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/54098197/admin/
Catholic Education (SIG #175)
Purpose: To support, promote, and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of Catholic education written from a diverse set of perspectives, including interdisciplinary and international issues.
Contact: John Reyes, Boston College, Las Vegas, NV, reyesef@bc.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: Catholic Education
Charters & School Choice (SIG #142)
Purpose: To promote and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of charter schools written from a diverse set of perspectives.
Contact: Jeanne M. Powers, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, jeanne.powers@asu.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: Charters & School Choice
Classroom Assessment (SIG #18)
Purpose: The purposes of the SIG are to promote student learning through improved classroom assessment practices; to assist teachers in improving their classroom assessment practices and understand why it is essential to do so. To achieve these purposes, the SIG includes among its goals the promotion of quality research into classroom assessment practices, using all legitimate research approaches and methods, and the active collaboration with other SIGs and AERA divisions who share an interest in promoting research into classroom assessment.
Contact: Chad M. Gotch, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, cgotch@wsu.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
Website: Classroom Assessment
X: https://twitter.com/AERA_CA_SIG
Classroom Management (SIG #19)
Purpose: To promote research on classroom organization and management, alternative discipline models, group and learner social interactions, and approaches to teacher education.
Contact: Dana Lewis Haraway, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, harawadk@jmu.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Classroom Management
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/AERA-Classroom-Management-SIG-211799585499569
Classroom Observation (SIG #20)
Purpose: The purpose of the Classroom Observation SIG is to provide members access to current research in observation techniques in educational settings.
Contact: Elizabeth L. Adams, American Institutes for Research, Dallas, TX, beth.greive@gmail.com
Dues: $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Classroom Observation
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/classroomobservationSIG
X: https://twitter.com/AERAcoSIG
Cognition and Assessment (SIG #167)
Purpose: To promote research on educational assessment merging two traditionally distinct fields - cognition and psychometrics
Contact: Jimmy de la Torre, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, j.delatorre@hku.hk
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Cognition and Assessment
Complexity Theories in Education (SIG #17)
Purpose: To apply, advance, and extend chaos and complexity theories to inquiry, research, and theory related to educational contexts.
Contact: Emma P. Bullock, Sam Houston State University, Houston, TX, ebullock@shsu.edu
Dues: $9.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: https://complexityed.weebly.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/115233401853116
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@complexityineducationsig1743
Computer and Internet Applications in Education (SIG #22)
Purpose: To promote research and evaluation on the use of computer-based information and communications resources and software for learning, instruction, assessment, and accomplishment by students, teachers, and administrators.
Contact: Kendall Hartley, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, Henderson, NV, kendall.hartley@unlv.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: https://appsinedu.org/
X: https://twitter.com/CIAE_SIG_AERA
Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education (SIG #171)
Purpose: The purpose of the SIG is to bring together individuals who share a common interest in in-depth, cross-cultural, international dialogue on how Confucianism and Taoism in both classical and contemporary schools of thought can inform educational theory and practice.
Contact: Dengting Boyanton, Sino-American Educational Research Association, Stone Mountain, GA, dengting.boyanton@yahoo.com
Dues: $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Confucianism-Taoism-Buddhism-and-Education-602503046456159/
Constructivist Theory, Research and Practice (SIG #25)
Purpose: To facilitate communication and to promote theory, research and improvement in practices of educators at all levels from a constructivist or developmental perspective.
Contact: Justina Ogodo, Baylor University, Waco, TX, justina_ogodo@baylor.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Constructivist Theory, Research and Practice
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/890551595302570
X: https://twitter.com/AERA_CTRP_SIG
Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research and Practice (SIG #26)
Purpose: To exchange information about current research, theory, and improvements in implementation of cooperative learning procedures; to provide a structured forum for discussions related to cooperative learning.
Contact: Allen Thurston, Queen's University - Belfast, Lisburn, Northern Ireland BT274SG, United Kingdom, a.thurston@qub.ac.uk
Dues: $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research and Practice
Critical Educators for Social Justice (SIG #144)
Purpose: Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) is committed to the struggle for social justice, human rights and democracy for diverse communities. We promote research, teaching, and activism centered on cultural, racial, linguistic, political, and economic self-determination within our classrooms, schools, and communities. A significant objective of CESJ is to promote communication and collaboration among critical educators and researchers working in public schools, universities, and community education programs. We believe that education, as a form of critical understanding, plays a crucial role in transforming society.
Contact: Megan L. Ruby, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, mlruby2021@gmail.com; Shanyce L. Campbell, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, shanycecampbell@pitt.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr)
Website: Critical Educators for Social Justice
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/criticaleducators.sj.3
X: https://twitter.com/CESJSIG
Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education (SIG #27)
Purpose: To promote the integrated study of race, ethnicity, social class, and gender as lenses for performing critical analyses and evaluations of prevailing theory and practice on education.
Contact: Jemimah L Young, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, jemimah.young@tamu.edu
Dues: $20.00 (1 yr); students $15.00 (1 yr)
Website: Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/120611961292065/
Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies (SIG #28)
Purpose: To support and promote transdisciplinary research of education as experience. The SIG de-stabilizes commonly held boundaries of educational research beyond contemporary curriculum discourses. Members pursue curriculum inquiry using critical perspectives, and performative, auto-ethnographic and conceptual approaches to ask sociocultural, political, and theoretical questions.
Contact: Reagan P. Mitchell, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC, mitchellr@uncsa.edu
Dues: $7.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/125036057513372/
Critical Peace Education (SIG #74)
Purpose: To create a global forum for scholars from diverse backgrounds and with varied perspectives to report and critically explore educational research and promote constructive changes in the areas of peace keeping, peace making, peace building, peace education, nonviolent conflict resolution, reconciliation, mediation, and more.
Contact: Shireen Keyl, Utah State University, Ephraim, UT, shireen.keyl@usu.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Critical Peace Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Peace-Education-SIG-AERA-401061593955408/
X: https://twitter.com/AERA_PeaceEd
Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education (SIG #29)
Purpose: The purpose of this SIG is to foster research on and critical analyses of issues in early childhood education and childhood studies and to encourage the development of alternative perspectives and curriculum in early childhood education.
Contact: Tonia Renee Durden, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, tdurden@gsu.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/cpecesig/home
X: https://twitter.com/aera_cpece
Critical Posthuman and Postfoundational Studies in Education (SIG #45)
Purpose: Concerned with the historical/philosophical studies of education that engage the writings of Michel Foucault and with diverse contemporary theories in education.
Contact: Rouhollah Aghasaleh, California State Polytechnic University - Humboldt, Arcata, CA, ra@humboldt.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Critical Posthuman and Postfoundational Studies in Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FoucaultSIG/
X: https://twitter.com/AERAFoucaultSIG
Critical Quantitative Methodologies (SIG #186) – SIG-in-Formation (SIG #186)
Purpose: To promote new approaches and foster best practices for conducting and evaluating critical quantitative research; train quantitative researchers how to use these innovative, equity-centered perspectives and research methods to question models, measures, and analysis techniques; and build a scholarship community for critical quantitative researchers.
Contact: Kamden Strunk, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, strunkk2@vcu.edu
Dues: $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Critical Quantitative Methodologies (SIG #186) – SIG-in-Formation
Cultural Historical Research (SIG #30)
Purpose: Focuses on human action, agency, and development as mediated by culture, history, and activity in the tradition of Vygotsky, Luria, Leont’ev, Bakhtin, Mead, and others.
Contact: Monica Lemos, Independent Researcher, São Paulo, Brazil, monica.lemos@gmail.com; Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, pm2593@tc.columbia.edu
Dues: $12.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Cultural Historical Research
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/156178274407466/
X: https://twitter.com/aerasig_ch
Data-Driven Decision Making in Education (SIG #179)
Purpose: Data-Driven Decision Making in Education SIG #179
Contact: Lisa M. Abrams, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, lmabrams@vcu.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Data-Driven Decision Making in Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DDDMSIGAERA
X: https://twitter.com/DDDMSIGAERA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@data-drivendecisionmakingi7562
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Intersectionalities and Perspectives (SIG #95)
Purpose: To provide a multidisciplinary forum for the promotion of research related to education of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.
Contact: Marlon H. Kuntze, California School for the Deaf, Fremont, CA, marlon.kuntze@gallaudet.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Intersectionalities and Perspectives
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/125612014139729/
Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education (SIG #153)
Purpose: The Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education SIG is an international SIG devoted to the study of education in and as effects of postcolonial, transnational, and globalization contexts.
Contact: Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, jairo.funez@ttu.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Postcolonial-Studies-and-Education-Special-Interest-Group-AERA-198817803522052/
X: https://twitter.com/decolonial_sig
Democratic Citizenship in Education (SIG #150)
Purpose: To promote democratic citizenship-development research in K-12 classrooms, and to foster an interdependence among citizenship-democratic researchers.
Contact: Tianlong Yu, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, tyu@siue.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Democratic Citizenship in Education
X: https://twitter.com/AERA_SIG150
Design and Technology (SIG #31)
Purpose: To foster research, teaching, service and innovation in design education and technology education in formal educational settings and in other learning environments.
Contact: T. Logan Arrington, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, loganarrington@gmail.com
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Design and Technology
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AERASIG31
X: https://twitter.com/AERADesignSIG
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3704774/
Dewey Studies (SIG #56)
Purpose: To keep alive Dewey's commitment to the use of critical and reflective intelligence in the search for solutions to problems in education and culture.
Contact: Carol R. Rodgers, University at Albany - SUNY, Belchertown, MA, crodgers@albany.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: Dewey Studies
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AERA-DEWEY-Studies-SIG-107076587675621
X: https://twitter.com/AERASIGDewey
Disability Studies in Education (SIG #143)
Purpose: Supports the development of disability studies, a series of interdisciplinary modes of critical advocacy scholarship, among educational researchers.
Contact: Lydia L Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, lpo5123@psu.edu; Emily A. Nusbaum, University of California - Berkeley, San Rafael, CA, emilynusbaumphd@gmail.com
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: Disability Studies in Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/356215848207216
X: https://twitter.com/AERADSE
Districts in Research and Reform (SIG #156)
Purpose: To bring together researchers, central office administrators, reform support organization leaders, and others interested in key questions of system-wide improvement and leadership.
Contact: Alice Huguet, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, ahuguet@rand.org; Stephanie D. Tuters, University of Toronto - OISE, Burlington, Canada, stephanie.tuters@utoronto.ca
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Districts in Research and Reform
X: https://twitter.com/DistrictSIG
Early Education and Child Development (SIG #32)
Purpose: To promote research that has implications for theory, policy, practice, and teacher development in the diverse contexts serving children from birth to age eight.
Contact: Melissa Beth Sherfinski, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, melissa.sherfinski@mail.wvu.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr)
Website: http://www.aera-eecd-sig.org/
Educational Change (SIG #155)
Purpose: This SIG adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding many aspects of educational change, including large-scale reform, school-initiated change, school improvement, and classroom-level change.
Contact: Jennie Weiner, University of Connecticut, SOMERVILLE, MA, jennie.weiner@uconn.edu
Dues: $12.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
Website: Educational Change
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AERAEducationalChangeSIG155/
X: https://twitter.com/EdChangeSIG
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aeraedchangesig/
Educational Statisticians (SIG #37)
Purpose: To increase interaction among educational researchers interested in the theory, applications, and teaching of statistics in the social sciences.
Contact: Betsy J. Becker, Aretum, Inc., Roswell, GA, bbecker@admin.fsu.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: Educational Statisticians
Elliot Eisner (SIG #177)
Purpose: The purpose of the Elliot Eisner SIG is to promote scholarship that applies, extends, critiques, and reinvents Eisner’s scholarship. The SIG will act as a catalyst for the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum built upon the foundation that Eisner established. The SIG will provide the opportunity to continue conceptualizing educational criticism and connoisseurship with an eye towards various forms of representation; will encourage new forms of evaluation based on Eisner’s ideas; will provide a home for the continuation of research into discipline-based art education and arts-integration; will continue to look at ways to conceptualize schooling (formal and informal) from arts-based perspectives; and will be a place of mentorship for young scholars of curriculum, school evaluation, qualitative research, the arts, and/or school reform.
Contact: Daniel R. Conn, Minot State University, Minot, ND, daniel.conn@ndus.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Elliot Eisner
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Eisner-SIG-488895484598608
X: https://twitter.com/EisnerSig
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eisnersig/
Environmental Education (SIG #33)
Purpose: To advance and critique environmental education research.
Contact: Joshua James Russell, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, russellj@canisius.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Environmental Education
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/154479114604736/
Experiential Education and Community Engagement: Scholarship and Practice (SIG #41)
Purpose: Experiential Education and Community Engagement: Scholarship and Practice SIG is dedicated to bringing together both researchers and practitioners to build and promote understanding of service-learning and experiential education for the betterment of the field and the reform of K-16 education.
Contact: Carmine Perrotti, Providence College, Providence, RI, cperrotti@providence.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Experiential Education and Community Engagement: Scholarship and Practice
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/432166447148889/
X: https://twitter.com/AERA_SLEESIG
Faculty Teaching, Evaluation and Development (SIG #42)
Purpose: To investigate, promote, and support research and development on college teaching and learning, issues related to faculty evaluation and development, and student ratings of teaching.
Contact: Laura Cruz, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, lxc601@psu.edu
Dues: $12.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Faculty Teaching, Evaluation and Development
Family, School, Community Partnerships (SIG #43)
Purpose: To engage with and promote rigorous and innovative research exploring the nature and impact of partnerships between families, schools, and diverse communities, and to encourage evidence-based practices and policies that influence children's learning and development.
Contact: Judy Paulick, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, jhp7h@virginia.edu; Nicole Megan Edwards, Rowan University, Allentown, PA, edwardsN@rowan.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $8.00 (1 yr)
Website: Family, School, Community Partnerships
Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance (SIG #44)
Purpose: To provide a forum for research in educational finance and its impact on policy for all levels and aspects of education.
Contact: David S. Knight, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, dsknight@uw.edu
Dues: $10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance
Graduate and Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines (SIG #168)
Purpose: To identify and support doctoral education as a distinct area of research in higher education; questions to be addressed include the following: How is "doctoral education" or "research education" conceived? What key changes are occurring in doctoral and research education? What opportunities do these changes present for challenging previous pedagogies and developing new ones?;
Contact: Deniece Dortch, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, dortch@gwu.edu
Dues: $20.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website: Graduate and Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines
X: https://twitter.com/AERASIG168
Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice (SIG #172)
Purpose: To advance research on community and youth organizing, particularly in low income communities and communities of color. We will work to build a research community that engages with practitioners in organizing groups, educational institutions and policy-making circles. We seek to foster research that examines the ways in which organizing efforts affect school improvement and educational equity, youth development, community/democratic revitalization and social justice.
Contact: Van T. Lac, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, lac@uic.edu
Dues: $15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website: Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice
X: https://twitter.com/GCYO_SIG
 
 
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