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Center for Urban Ethnography
Ethnography Forum
29th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
Going Public with Ethnography in Education
February 29 — March 1, 2008
Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
What counts as learning? In the current public discourse of
ever-narrowing definitions of learning, achievement, and educational
value, ethnographic research offers powerful evidence that not
everything that matters is being counted. Ethnographers of
education around the world continue to reveal the importance and
complexity of social, cultural, and linguistic life in schools, of
processes of learning, and of the intricate relationships upon which it
depends. How can we make accounts of this complexity heard within
a popular discourse and public policy that seem ever more committed to
simplifying definitions and solutions? With all that we know and
continue to discover through ethnography in education, how do we go
public? How do we engage with the media, with popular discourse,
and with public policy on burning social and educational issues in ways
that will influence what counts as learning and what counts as
research?
The Ethnography in Education Research Forum invites papers that
explore and expand upon what counts as learning and achievement, what
counts as research and gets counted as research, and what methods of
data analysis and representation can be used to communicate findings
about the complex and processual nature of learning and education to
audiences outside, as well as inside, the academy. Plenary Speakers:
- Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego
- Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University
- Lucille McCarthy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Stephen Fishman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Saturday Evening Panel: “Ethnographic data analysis, past-present-future: A chat with the SHLEPPERS”
- Frederick Erickson, University of California, Los Angeles
- Ray McDermott, Stanford University
- Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego
- Jeffrey Shultz, Arcadia University
Online registration is now closed.
Please register when you arrive at the conference.
Preliminary Schedule
Data Analysis Consultation Instructions
Registration Rates
Hotel Information
Parking
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Convenor:
Dr. Nancy H. Hornberger | Co-Coordinators:
Julia Deak
Katherine Mortimer
Karl Swinehart |
Center for Urban Ethnography
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216
Email: cue@gse.upenn.edu
Phone: 215-898-3273
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/
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