http:\/\/www.equitysocialjustice.org\/<\/a><\/p>\nConference Theme Description<\/em>
\nTesting Our Limits: Teaching and Learning with Courage and Conviction The stakes could not be higher. Educators today \u2013 as well as their students \u2013 are working in a world that is being overrun by standardized accountability initiatives that threaten to diminish learning endeavors aimed toward social justice. As K-12 schools and institutions of higher education are increasingly influenced by the implementation of data-driven, privatized and corporate reforms, educators and educational leaders at all levels must strive to ensure that learning and teaching are not reduced to ranked results that are frequently tied to economic outcomes. Authentic teaching and learning cannot be easily quantified: it intends to provide opportunities for
\nempowerment, agency, and self-actualization. Education in a democratic society is meant to foster the development of active citizens who think critically and act equitably, and educators are charged to keep that promise alive.<\/p>\nProposals might address topics such as (but not limited to) the following:<\/em>
\n\u2022 What kinds of data are meaningful in the quest for social justice through education?
\n\u2022 How is standardization affecting pre-service and practicing teachers? Students? Administrators?
\n\u2022 How might the experiences of students, teachers, and administrators in alternative settings inform traditional classrooms?
\n\u2022 How are efforts to achieve social justice and equity affected by the current reforms?
\n\u2022 How can educators use data to resist the negative effects of standardization?
\n\u2022 What is measured by standardized assessments? How can classroom assessments amplify and\/or negate the results of standardized assessments?<\/p>\nConference strands:<\/em>
\n\u2022 Teaching and Learning for Equity and Social Justice
\n\u2022 Critical Race Studies
\n\u2022 Critical Youth Studies
\n\u2022 Urban Education & Community Partnerships
\n\u2022 \u201cOthering\u201d
\n\u2022 Genocide and Human Rights
\n\u2022 Educational Reform in the 21st Century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALL FOR PAPERS Conference on Equity and Social Justice 2013 Conference Theme Testing Our Limits: Teaching and Learning with Courage and Conviction March 2, 2013 at State University of New York at New Paltz, NY Conference Website http:\/\/www.equitysocialjustice.org\/ Conference Theme Description Testing Our Limits: Teaching and Learning with Courage and Conviction The stakes could not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73154],"tags":[1579,2258,100],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-theory-research","tag-conference","tag-equity","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}