Penn GSE To Host 31st Annual Ethnography Forum
January 21, 2010 - On February 26 to 27, 2010, Penn GSE will host the 31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, the largest such meeting of qualitative researchers in education in the world.
The theme of this year’s Forum — “Creativity, Crisis and Qualitative Research: Re-imagining Education in a Changing World” – reflects the especially dramatic changes that have taken place worldwide in recent years. Conference participants will examine the ways in which these social, economic, and technological changes are influencing teaching and learning — both inside and outside the classroom.
Featured speakers are H. Samy Alim, a faculty member at Stanford University whose ethnographic studies focus on street language, culture, and music; Doug Foley, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin whose research centers around American ethnic and race relations and educational policy for ethnic minorities; and Bonny Norton, a professor in the department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia.
Boston College Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Penn GSE Associate Professor Susan Lytle, who co-authored the recent book, Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation, will be co-presenting.
In addition to the plenary speakers, the Forum also features data analysis sessions, in which participants and faculty consultants brainstorm with presenters about data sets.
Convened by Penn GSE Professor Nancy Hornberger, the Forum is a student-run event. This year’s coordinators are Sarah Lipinoga and Ming-Hsuan Wu, both doctoral students in educational linguistics at Penn GSE.
For more information on the Ethnography Forum, go to http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.
Media contact: Jill DiSanto-Haines at 215-898-4820 or jdisanto@upenn.edu