Arts Based Research Symposium Edmonton

Reflective Practice Gathering University of Limerick

2^nd International Reflective Practice Gathering

June 6^th-9^th, 2012

University of Limerick, Ireland

The idea of ‘Gathering’ is to bring people from diverse professional and artistic backgrounds together in community to explore and develop creative and dialogical ways of reflective conferencing across diverse disciplines and to gain insight into reflective practices. This 2^nd Gathering builds on the foundations of the 1^st Gathering in Zakynthos 2011.

Invitation is by accepted paper. As such, we invite people to submit papers around the themes of dialogue, reflective practice, narrative and performance. The papers should clearly identify the author’s key insights. Word limit 2000 words. We welcome all forms of artistic representation of reflective practice.

These papers will not actually be presented at the Gathering; rather the authors will work in small groups at the Gathering to collectively and creatively present their shared insights in dialogue with the Gathering audience.

Alongside these presentations, the Gathering will dialogue around the key themes. There will be a workshop on performance with Geert Niland, a theatre director from the Netherlands. We also welcome performances to be part of a one day rolling programme of performances open to the public directed by Dr Amanda Price. A draft programme is available www.attraversiamo.biz/events

Papers may be submitted for publication in the new online journal ‘Attraversiamo’. This journal has been established to publish in dialogue creative papers around the conference themes. The first volume is aimed to be published in January 2012 comprising papers developed from the 1^st Gathering in Zakynthos 2011. The journal will be published twice yearly. www.attraversiamo.biz.

Numbers for the Gathering is restricted for 30 people. The cost of the Gathering will be £120. This does not include meals or accommodation. Accommodation is within the University of Limerick at reasonable cost.

Application to attend with attached papers should be sent to Christopher Johns chris@attra.biz by January 6^th, 2012.

Creating Space for new ideas in Arts, Humanities, Education and Health

Creating Space Conference

Creating Space for Arts and Humanities in the Education of Health Professionals:

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? A Canadian Perspective

Date & Time: Saturday May 7, 2011 @ 9am-5pm

Location: Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry
600 University Ave, 18th Floor Auditorium, Toronto, Ontario

Keynote Speakers: Drs. Alan Bleakley and Brian Goldman

This first annual Canadian conference on medical and health humanities is designed to take the pulse of our shared work and to bring together colleagues from multiple disciplines - the arts, social sciences and humanities, located in various settings (clinical, academic, artistic) - in order to share ideas, teaching/learning/evaluative strategies, and inquiry approaches - to further shape health professional education and healthcare in this country.

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I want to remind our blog visitors about the "Creating Space" Conference to be held in Toronto May 7. Looks like it will be an excellent opportunity to hear about new perspectives in arts, humanities, health and education.

I look forward to seeing many of you at the conference! CM

Artful Inquiry Within Dietetics Among Themes at First Critical Dietetics Conference, Toronto

Announcing

The First International Critical Dietetics Conference

August 19-20, 2011
Ryerson University
Toronto, ON, Canada

Critical Dietetics is informed by transdisciplinary scholarship from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. By contributing to scholarship, practice, and education, Critical Dietetics strives to make visible our assumptions, give voice to the unspoken, embrace reflexivity, reveal and explore power relations, encourage public engagement and diverse forms of expression, and acknowledge that there are no value-free positions. Through these principles, Critical Dietetics will engage with the ever-changing health, social, and environmental issues facing humanity. The First International Critical Dietetics Conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to engage in dialogue regarding Critical Dietetics as a means for growing this burgeoning movement.

What counts as "knowing" in dietetic practice? How do we, as nutrition professionals, come to know what we know and what we don't know? How does the evidenced-based discourse so dominant in dietetics scholarship today, intersect with and benefit from the wisdom-based discourse honed and refined for millennia? What does dietetic culture render silent? What is it that we have already accomplished as a profession? In what ways do we continue to evolve? How can we further build upon the rich roots of our profession? What do we envision for our future? These are but a few of the difficult, but important questions that Critical Dietetics seeks to explore.

Conference Themes

The themes of the conference include, but are not limited to:
- critical analysis of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, ability, and size in dietetics
- dietetic epistemology and post-structural orientations to dietetic education and practice
- artful inquiry within dietetics employing arts-informed methods such as performance, poetry, literature, documentary film, and art-making
- “civic dietetics” (Wilkins, et al, 2010), social justice, social responsibility, and the human right to food

We welcome abstract submissions under the following headings (times include discussion period):

1. Individual Paper (30 minutes): Please submit a 200 word abstract including the corresponding author's name, email address, and names of co-presenters.

2. Symposium (90 minutes): Please submit three abstracts (200 words each) and a thematic overview (100-200 words) of the symposium. Indicate the corresponding author's name, email address, and the names of the co-presenters.

3. Pecha kucha (20 slides of images to be shown for exactly 20 seconds each): Please submit a 200 word abstract including the author's name, email address, and the names of the co-presenters. Learn more about pecha kucha at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha and http://www.pecha-kucha.org/what.

Email your abstract to criticaldietetics@gmail.com by January 17, 2011. Notification of decisions will be made by March 21, 2011.

Information about keynote speakers, conference registration, accommodations, and travel will be available in the coming months at www.criticaldietetics.org.

Staging Sustainability Conference, Arts, Community, Culture and Environment key topics

Staging Sustainability

Arts Community Culture Environment

April 20 - 22, 2011
York University, Toronto

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About the Conference

How can we produce art that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires these artistic endeavours?

The goal of the Staging Sustainability conference is to create an opportunity for artists and those who support the arts in a myriad of ways – from scholars, critics, producers and designers to policy-makers, industry and government – to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the issues and challenges associated with the creation of environmentally sustainable arts practice and performance.

To borrow a phrase from the art critic, author, curator and environmentalist John Grande, we want to foster discussions that will “engage the borderline between art and what is perhaps the most pressing global concern in the new millennium – the quality and sustainability of the environment.”

The conference will consider how the arts engage questions of sustainability from a dual vantage point: cultural and ecological. Thus, the conference encourages an approach to sustainability that encompasses aspects of subjectivity with respect to community and identity.

Staging Sustainability is produced and presented by the Faculty of Fine Arts, York University with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

For more information about this conference

Arts and Public Health Focus of Student led Conference

3^rd Annual Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Conference: “The Art of Public Health”

Submission Deadline: August 6, 2010

Conference Date: October 1, 2010

Location: Toronto, Ontario

This student-led conference focuses on arts-based approaches to public health. This will feature an outstanding keynote address by Dr. Sarah Flicker, and informative sessions aimed at engaging participants by providing an opportunity for dialogue and debate pertaining to arts in public health research, knowledge translation, program planning, evaluation and empowerment. The organizing committee are seeking submissions from interested students, community organizations, practitioners, researchers and artists interested in sharing their research, experience or expertise in the use of arts in public health. Individuals or groups wanting to exhibit works of art, dance, theatre, film or photography are also encouraged to participate.

Information:

http://artofpublichealthconference.com/U_of_T/home.html

Baycrest Bringing Creativity into Clinical Practice with Older Adults

Baycrest Social Workers are pleased to present
The Walter Lyons Memorial Social Work Clinic Day
Bringing Creativity into Clinical Practice with Older Adults
Friday, November 12, 2010
The Joseph E. & Minnie Wagman Centre
55 Ameer Avenue, Toronto, Ontario (on the Baycrest Campus)

Sponsorship generously provided by:
The Walter Lyons Memorial Fund
The Ben & Hilda Katz Centre for Gerontological Social Work

PROGRAM

8:00 Registration and Refreshments

8:45 Welcome & Introductory Remarks

Dr. William Reichman, President and CEO, Baycrest

Ms. Peggy Arden, Chairperson, Baycrest Social Work Clinic Day Planning Committee

9:00 Still Life!: Why Making Art Makes Sense

Robin Glazer, MS

The benefits of providing quality arts experiences to older adults have been proven and these
benefits include better health, stronger cognition, increased social interaction and,some suggest, longer lives. Developing best practices in providing arts to older adults can produce a rejuvenating effect on the entire community, from participants to their caregivers.

9:45 The Creative Spirit….
A View of the World

Joel Walker, MD, FRCPC

In this presentation Dr. Walker will discuss how a group of institutionalized elderly with varied
impairments became consciously involved in developing their own potential and growth through
the use of photography.

10:30 Refreshment Break

10:45 Using Drama to Humanize Dementia Care

Pia Kontos, PhD

This presentation will explore the effectiveness of drama in the context of the qualitative
evaluation of an arts-informed educational program on person-centred dementia care. Analysis of focus groups and interviews with nurses and allied health care practitioners who participated in the program suggests that drama is an effective pedagogical tool and is well positioned to
strengthen initiatives that seek to improve dementia care.

11:30 Q & A Panel with Keynote Speakers

12:00 Voices of the Terraces Theatre Troupe

The cast members of this theatre group are 80 years and over, and perform a range of mini-plays thematically based on the emotional, psychological and physical experiences of aging and living in a retirement setting.

12:30 Lunch

Followed by workshop sessions

For more information:Please contact Paula Ferreira at 416-785-2500 ext. 2363 or e-mail pferreira@baycrest.org

SIU brings MD, novelist, playwright to conference

SIU School of Medicine event Friday June 25, 2010

to feature Stephen Bergman, MD, Doctor, Novelist, Playwright

Staying Human in Medicine: From “The House of God” to “The Spirit of the Place”

Samuel Shem, pen-name of Stephen Bergman, is a doctor, novelist, playwright and activist. A Rhodes scholar, he is a graduate of Harvard College Phi Beta Kappa, received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D. in Physiology from Oxford University. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for three decades.

The CME event will be a blend of medical humanities and clinical updates.


(It is good to see the intersections of arts and medicine featured at SIU.)

We invite you to check out the full program here:


See program pdf

Dietitians of Canada Recognize Value of Story and Arts approaches for Leadership and Change in Dietetics

I am inspired by the progressive programme for the Dietitians of Canada Annual Conference to be held at The Hyatt Regency in Montreal, Quebec, May 27 - 29. Creativity, leadership and change themes will figure prominently throughout the programme. On Friday May 28 there will be a session titled, "Crafting Our Stories: Art, Leadership and Change in Dietetics" coordinated by Dr. Jacqui Gingras, Assistant Professor at Ryerson University's School of Nutrition and hosted by The Advisory Committee for Professional Affairs. Panel participants will introduce significant interdisciplinary connections between the arts and dietetics education and practice. Arts and research will be highlighted as well as approaches such as ethnodrama, non-fiction, poetry, textile art and filmmaking and other creative approaches for today's agents of change in the dietetics profession.

This session will feature panelist/speakers Lucy Aphramor, Co-Director of the Coventry based National health Service, Atrium Health Ltd., Coventry University, United Kingdom, Dr. Jacqui Gingras, Ryerson, Cheryl McLean, Publisher International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice and Dr. Catherine Morley, consulting dietitian, independent researcher and textile artist and filmmaker.
Both Jacqui Gingras and Catherine Morley and their work will be featured in the soon to be released research text "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change". , the inaugural textbook in the CAIP Research series.

Friday evening there will be an inaugural exhibit, "Dietitian as Artist" which will take place featuring works by dietitians expressing their creativity through a variety of media including painting, knitting, film, pottery, sculpting, quilting, music, theatre, fiction, drama and creative non-fiction writing, poetry, drawing, collage and photography.

For more information visit the website

Cheryl McLean, Publisher, International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice
Editor, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research Series

Qualitative Inquiry for a Global Community in Crisis, Conference 2010

The Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2010)
May 26-29, 2010
2010 Dissertation Award

QUALITATIVE INQUIRY FOR A GLOBAL COMMUNITY IN CRISIS

The Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from May 26-29, 2010. The theme of the 2010 Congress is "Qualitative Inquiry for a Global Community in Crisis." It is clear that in these troubling political times qualitative researchers are called upon to become human rights advocates, to honor the sanctity of life, and the core values of privacy, human dignity, peace, justice, freedom from fear and violence.

The 2010 Congress will offer scholars the opportunity to form coalitions, to engage in debate, and dialogue on how qualitative research can be used to can advance the causes of social justice, while addressing racial, ethnic, gender and environmental disparities in education, welfare and healthcare. Delegates will show how critical inquiry can be used to bridge gaps in cultural and linguistic understandings.

Sessions will take up such topics as: the politics of evidence; alternatives to evidence-based models; mixed-methods; public policy discourse; social justice; human subject research; indigenous research ethics; decolonizing inquiry; standpoint epistemologies. Contributors are invited to experiment with traditional and new methodologies, with new presentational formats (drama, performance, poetry, autoethnography, fiction). Such work will offer guidelines and exemplars showing how qualitative research can be used in the human rights and policy-making arenas.

On May 26 there will be pre-conference language events and on May 27, morning and afternoon professional workshops. The Congress will consist of keynote, plenary, featured, regular, and poster sessions. There will be an opening reception and barbeque as well as a closing old fashioned Midwest cook-out.

We invite your submission of paper, poster and session proposals. Submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1 2009. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2009. To learn more about the Sixth International Congress and how to participate, please visit our website <www.icqi.org>.

Keynote speakers

Cynthia Dillard (Nana Mansa II), Ohio State University

"Learning to Remember the Things We've Learned to Forget: Endarkened Feminisms and the Sacred Nature of Research."

Abstract

Colonial and racialized histories have created fragmentation, dislocation, and dismemberment for many, including African and other people color. These entanglements and geneologies of diaspora and location strongly influence the consciousness of African ascendant women throughout the world, even as we negotiate the countless influences that shape and impact both our individual and collective consciousness and particularities as African women. These are always and in all ways contested spaces and locations that are deeply spiritual, situated, and embodied. Collectively, we are not born "Black women": We become Black women, a cross-cultural diversity of nationalities, socio economic classes, sexual identities, spiritual beliefs and generational distinctions. And, as Audre Lorde suggested years ago, a critical part of any becoming is also about learning each other's (her)stories and resisting the temptation to compare or create hierarchies of oppression between and among the collective. This includes a deeper recognition of the ways in which we all have been collectively seduced into forgetting who we are as women (or have chosen to do so), given the weight and power of memory and the truly radical act that re-membering may represent in our present lives and work as researchers. Whether through the ravages of colonization or slavery and their inequitable outcomes, we have learned to be both complicit and vigilant in this process of figuring out who we are, who we are becoming. But in order to heal, to put the pieces back together again, we must learn to re-member the things that we've learned to forget, including engagements and dialogues in cross-cultural community that theorize our differing migrations, experiences and definitions. In this way, remembering becomes a response to our individual and collective fragmentation at the spiritual and material levels, a response to the divisions created between mind, body and spirit, and a response to our on-going experience and understanding of "what difference difference makes" (Wright, 2003).

Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, but primarily as a secular one. Absent any attention to spirit, experience is also constructed as absent the sacred. However, the sacred is fundamental to a Black feminist epistemology and research, given the historical and cultural experiences of African ascendant women worldwide. How can re-membering bear witness to our individual and collective consciousness and generate new theories and conduct of feminist research? Through examples from her work in Ghana, West Africa, Dillard explores how locatedness, rootedness, experience and memory engage and create an endarkened feminist subjectivity and spirituality that both re-members and opens possibilities for research as sacred praxis.

Isamu Ito University of Fukui, Japan

"Globalizing The Rural: Reflections of a Qualitastive Japanese Rural Sociologist."

Partial List of Session and Paper Topics

The topics for the 6th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry include, but are not confined to: Autoethnography & Performance Studies, Decolonizing Truth, Democratic Methodologies, Evidence and Social Policy, Human Rights, Indigenous Law, Justice as Healing, Standards for Qualitative Inquiry, Forms and Varieties of Justice, Participatory Action Research, Politics of Evidence, Research as Resistance, Restorative Justice, Social Justice, Community Ethics, visual sociology, hypertext explorations, visual ethnography.

The Congress will also consist of keynote, plenary, spotlight, featured, regular and poster sessions. There will be an opening reception and barbeque, and a closing old-fashioned Midwest cook-out.
We invite your submission of paper, poster and session proposals. Submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1 2009. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2009.

From the website at: http://www.icqi.org/

To learn more about the Sixth International Congress and how to participate, please email info@icqi.org.

Science and Humanism featured at Canadian Conference on Medical Education

May 1-5th 2010
Canadian Conference on Medical Education
(St. John’s, Newfoundland)

White Coat, Warm Heart Integrating Science and Humanism

The Program Committee invites the submission of proposals for workshops, oral and poster presentations in the areas of admissions, undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing medical education, faculty development or any other topic relevant to medical education.

for details: http://www.mededconference.ca/home.php

Call for Papers Canadian Association for Music Therapy

CALL FOR PAPERS
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC THERAPY
36th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 12-15, 2010
HALIFAX, NS

SEND US YOUR PROPOSALS

For information please visit:
www.musictherapy.ca






I thought you may enjoy this music therapy video excerpt at Youtube created by Brandon Moore CM
front row seats at Youtube see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPRkgkZHjqI

National Association for Drama Therapy Conference White Plains NY

This news in today from National Association of Drama Therapy NADT Conference Chair, Mark Beauregard, RDT, LCAT:

"Finding Home: Pathways To Belonging"
Annual Conference of The National Association for Drama Therapy

November 5-8, 2009 in White Plains NY

Greetings,
I am writing to remind you that the deadline for submission of proposals for workshops for the 2009 Annual National Association for Drama Therapy Conference is MARCH 7th 2009. Now is the time to submit your proposals! For more information and for submission guidelines, visit the NADT website.

Saldana to Conduct Ethnodrama and Arts Based Research Workshop at Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Registration is underway for The Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry to be held May 20 - 23, 2009 at The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. I was pleased to see Johnny Saldana will be offering a workshop at the Congress this year "Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre: Arts-Based Research from Page to Stage". Johnny Saldana is also a member of our CCAHTE
Journal (Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal) Advisory Board.

(from the ICQI programme)

Workshop Title: Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre: Arts-Based Research from Page to Stage

No prior theatre or performance experience is needed to participate in this workshop. Arts-based research, ethnodrama in particular, has been advocated by such key figures in qualitative inquiry as Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln as a powerful way for ethnography to recover yet interrogate the meanings of lived experiences. This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of dramatizing data and explore how qualitative research transfers "from page to stage." The session will provide a literature review of available ethnodramas with participants reading aloud informally from scripts (and, pending A/V availability, watching videos of ethnotheatrical performance). We will then explore how the participants' personal lived experiences can become "autoethnographic monologues." Participants will select a personal story as the basis for workshopping an informal retelling of that work to peers. The facilitator will guide each researcher-as-storyteller through the process of selecting necessary sensory details, choosing evocative language, and employing gesture and voice as instruments for dramatizing the data.

The deadline for submitting papers is past, however, registration for the Congress itself is ongoing. The Congress has some excellent presentations and workshops planned. A great opportunity to connect with others with like interests around the inspiring theme,

"Advancing Human Rights through Qualitative Inquiry"

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Urban Youth and Determinants of Sexual Health Symposium

Call for Submissions

“Urban Youth and the Determinants of Sexual Health” Student Symposium

The Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI), along with the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution, the York Institute for Health Research, the Centre for Urban Schooling, Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention, Toronto Public Health, Planned Parenthood Toronto and the University of Toronto Sexual Education and Peer Counseling Centre invites you to submit an abstract for presentation at the 2009 Student Symposium on Urban Youth and the Determinants of Sexual Health. This is a FREE symposium that will be held on Thursday, March 26, 2009 and invites anyone interested in youth sexual health to attend.

The goal of the symposium is to bring together university students to share their research and artistic pieces on youth sexual health and to engage and network with other students, academics, policy makers, and community members involved or interested in Urban Youth and the Determinants of Sexual Health. Students are encouraged to use this symposium as an opportunity to present research ‘in progress’, test out ideas for a thesis or dissertation proposal, or present original research or artistic pieces.

Projects that are selected for the Student Symposium will be promoted on the CUHI website. A total of three awards will be granted to students in categories of poster, oral, and artistic presentations.

For more information see pdf of poster here

Writing and Medicine, Conference University of Iowa

Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine Conference

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine,Iowa City

April 29/09 -May 1

Conference goals:

• To foster collaboration and discussion on the role of creative writing in medical education and writing throughout a lifelong career as a physician
  

• To share initiatives that demonstrate the role of creative writing in patient care
  

• To offer skill-building sessions on writing, editing, and publishing creative work
  

For information visit:

Shanghai World Expo 2010 Call for Canadian Artists

Shanghai World Expo 2010

As part of the 2010 World Expo that will be held in Shanghai, China, from May 1 to October 31, 2010, Cirque du Soleil is pleased to be the producer of the cultural program for the Canada Pavilion.

Under the theme "The Living City: Inclusive, Sustainable, Creative," the program will include works and productions in fields as varied as dance, music, theatre, literature, visual arts and media arts.

To reflect the dynamic nature of Canadian culture, Cirque du Soleil would like to invite emerging and renowned artists and creators from across the country to apply to take part in the Cultural Program. The application process will take place from October 27 to December 15, 2008. The Canada Council for the Arts will join Cirque du Soleil in the evaluation and selection process.

More Info:

Digital Arts and Humanities Conference

CHArt Conference 2008
Seeing.... Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture

November 6 to 7, 2008

The Clore Lecture Theatre

Clore Management Centre

Birkbeck, University of London

Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX.

"This year's CHArt conference takes seeing as its theme and the associated questions of vision, perception, visibility and invisibility, blindness and insight - all in the context of our contemporary digital culture in which our eyes are assaulted by ever greater amounts of visual stimulus, while we are also increasingly being surveyed, on a continual basis."

"What does it mean to see and be seen nowadays? How have advances in neuroscience or developments in technology altered our understanding of vision and perception? What kind of visual spaces do we now inhabit? What new kinds of visual experiences are now available? And what is lost or no longer possible? How does the increasing digitalization of media affect the experience of seeing? What and who might be rendered invisible by the processes of digital culture? What are our current digital culture's blindspots? What are its politics of seeing? The 2008 conference investigates such questions." (from website, read more here)

Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Congress 2009

Mark your 2009 calendar for:

The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Congress 2009

Carleton University, Ottawa

May 23 to May 31, 2009

"Capital Connections Nation, Terroir, Territoire"

See more info here

AERA 2009 Meeting Announcement, ABER Dissertation Award

2009 AERA (American Educational Research Association) Program Theme

Disciplined Inquiry: Education Research in the Circle of Knowledge

"At a time when knowledge creation and use requires spanning boundaries between academic disciplines, education researchers can take pride in their long tradition of multi-disciplinary work. AERA's 2009 annual meeting will celebrate this tradition, and look ahead to assess new ways that education research and disciplinary inquiry might be more effectively integrated.

The 2009 annual meeting will be an opportunity for renewed discussion and expansion of the role of education research as a hub of interdisciplinary scholarship. Special attention will be paid to proposals for papers and sessions that demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary research, the significance of multiple methodological perspectives, and interactions between education and its sister disciplines in the sciences and humanities."

For more information see


2009 ABER Dissertation Award at Masters and Doctoral Levels

The Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) special interest group for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) would like to announce its sponsorship of the ABER Outstanding Dissertation Award for the best Doctoral Dissertation that explores, is an exemplar of, and pushes the boundaries of arts based educational research.

The award is intended for students who have graduated in the year preceding the award. One award will go to a Doctoral student.The winner will receive an "Outstanding Dissertation" award at the ABER business meeting at the 2009 AERA annual meeting. The winner will also be invited to present highlights from their dissertation at this meeting.


more news about this award