Call for Papers: AAACS and Graduate Student Paper Award
2014 Graduate Student Paper Award
Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our inaugural Graduate Student Paper Award. The award will recognize one graduate student‘s work for its contribution to this year’s conference theme “Ethical Engagement among Communities without Consensus.” Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Graduate Student Committee and then submitted for final peer review by established scholars in curriculum studies. One selected paper will be recognized at the 2014 annual conference. Submissions are due by March 1st, 2014 and should be no longer than 10 pages double-spaced (not including references) with 1-inch margins, 12 pt Times New Roman Font and APA formatting. We encourage graduate students to submit papers drawn on proposals that have been accepted for the 2014 conference. Please email your paper to
2014 AAACS Call for Papers
In a symposium entitled “Ethical Engagement among Communities without Consensus” AAACS 2013, Janet Miller and Bill Pinar emphasized the importance of a ‘shared community of dissensus’ for ‘complicated conversations’ in curriculum studies to take place. In this discussion, the notion of “engaged generosity” emerged that urged curriculum studies scholars who disagree to maintain an ethics of generous engagement and commitment to curriculum studies, its goals, and it underlying activism.
Taking Miller’s proposition seriously and considering the challenges of the current educational context, including aspects internal and external to the area of curriculum studies, the Executive and Conference Committees of AAACS invite curriculum studies scholars to engage with the potential difficulties, barriers, joys, and benefits of taking responsibility for creating such community and enabling such conversations. Drawing on contemporary thinking about democracy, otherness, knowledge/power, being, and beyond, we would like to explore how to create an AAACS disciplinary space that advances themes that are urgently pressing in a time in which curriculum studies is becoming increasingly marginalized.