Ethnography Forum: Practitioner Research Day

Imagining Inquiry Communities – In Honor of the Scholarship and Legacies of Susan L. Lytle

February 25, 2012

Nationally and internationally known for her work in literacy education, educational leadership, and practitioner research, Dr. Susan L. Lytle has mentored and challenged generations of scholars to regard teaching as local, theoretical and political work. Dr. Lytle has encouraged countless teacher researchers to develop communities of inquiry: collaborative spaces that generate knowledge from practice and nurture activism for social and educational equity. Dr. Lytle’s legacy of working to promote the role that practitioners themselves have to play in educational change includes being founding director of the Philadelphia Writing Project and establishing (with Marilyn Cochran-Smith) Practitioner Research Day at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum.

In recognition of Dr. Lytle’s work at the University of Pennsylvania and internationally, including her long-standing commitment to the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, the Practitioner Research Day of the 33rd Ethnography in Education Research Forum seeks to honor her impact and intellectual legacies. Researchers, teachers, and practitioners – both in and out of classrooms – are invited to imagine together the nature, shape, and role communities of inquiry can play promoting social change in 21st century learning contexts.