Journal of Curriculum Theorizing

We are pleased to share the following letter regarding the 2009 AERA Annual Meeting with the JCT Online Community. Two of our keynotes from the 2008 Conference have signed onto the letter.

October 20, 2008

Dear Colleagues in AERA:

We appreciate that, on October 17th, AERA president McDonnell and executive director Levine sent an e-mail (copied below) to all AERA members describing a problem with the main conference site hotel for the 2009 annual meeting. However, we are concerned that the letter tells only a part of the story. In this brief response, we provide more background, and we urge members not to allow AERA to cross a picket line.

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For personal reasons, Nelson Rodriguez will not be responding to Kevin Kumashiro’s keynote address at 7:30pm, Saturday, Oct. 18. The Bergamo leadership group is instead excited to welcome Dr. Lisa Weems as respondent.

Dr. Weems is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Curriculum at Miami University. She received a Ph.D. from the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership at the Ohio State University, and served as Director of Miami University’s Center for Education and Cultural Studies from 2003 to 2006. Her areas of teaching interest include cultural studies, popular culture, and public life, as well as feminist and postcolonial approaches to inquiry. Dr. Weems’ body of scholarship, which includes publications in Educational Researcher, Qualitative Inquiry, and the Journal of Teacher Education, is distinguished by innovative and challenging discussions of the intersections of race, nationality and sexuality in the construction of public/educational “problems” and the ethical dimensions of teaching and learning with/in difference.

All of the rooms at the Bergamo Center have been filled for this years conference. We have other options listed on the conference accommodations page, but have just negotiated a special rate at a local hotel. The Homewood Suites has agreed to give us a special conference rate of $89 a night for up to twenty rooms. The Suites are only 6 miles away from the Bergamo center. Please consider taking advantage of this special rate by mentioning that you are with the Bergamo Conference.

Homewood Suites
2750 Presidential Drive
Fairborn, OH 45324
937-429-0600

We are happy to share the job announcement below with the JCT Online community.

Position in Curriculum Studies in Education

The Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning,
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE),
University of Toronto, invites applications for a
tenure-stream appointment in the field of curriculum
studies in education. The appointment will be at the
rank of Assistant Professor and will begin July 1,
2009.

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This award is presented to one graduate student in recognition of an outstanding paper presented at the 2008 Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theorizing. This award recognizes the innovative scholarship of one student whose work expands upon the themes of this year’s conference, including its commitment to complicated conversations, building connections across differences, and encouraging cross-fertilization of ideas to nurture new scholarship, generate fresh meanings, and enable personal and cultural transformation. The award encourages the participation of emerging scholars in promoting new ideas in emergence, disseminating voices from the margin, and welcomes all viewpoints in forming a shared community of dissensus around issues of curriculum, its theories and practices.

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