JoLLE2019: Journal of Language and Literacy Education Winter Conference 2019 Tate Center, The University of Georgia Athens, GA, United States, February 2-3, 2019 |
Conference website | http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/conference/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jolle2019 |
Submission Portal Open | September 17, 2018 |
Submission deadline | November 7, 2018 |
JoLLE Website | http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/ |
Breaking Down Walls: Teaching and Learning Through and Across Boundaries
The 2019 JoLLE Winter Conference
Learners, teachers, and researchers increasingly face the need to gather, conceptualize, and synthesize information and ideas from multiple disciplines and territories. What can we do to guide students in meeting the high demands of a broad spectrum of skills to navigate their lives in and out of school? How can we create more comprehensive knowledge and distribute it in ways that are more inclusive and equitable? Many educators are enacting and calling for action toward the liberation of boundaries, through (re)constructing pedagogical strategies and incorporating these new strategies in classrooms. Teachers and researchers are seeking new angles, blurring borders, and challenging traditions in their inquiries. Trends in language and literacy education research such as S.T.E.A.M literacy, multimodality, translanguaging, fractured identities, new literacies, inclusive and active pedagogy, art-based inquiry, and WOKE methodology are all products of educators’ passion and motivation for stepping out of their comfort zones and traveling across boundaries.
The JoLLE conference is a hands-on and participation-based conference where presenters involve their audiences in the subject, process, and scope of their presentations. This year, we invite teachers, researchers, and students to move beyond conceptual, theoretical, disciplinary, national, cultural, linguistic, social, racial, ability, and gender boundaries, to discuss the embodiments of innovation, affirmation, equity, and liberation. Together, we can propel powerful ideas and actions that can sustain, diversify, and strengthen education and research in the years to come. Please join us in Athens next February to discuss and explore these complex issues and seek ways to transform education from within.
Submission Guidelines
All presentations must be original. The following session types are welcome:
- Full Paper Presentations (individual and group)--50 minutes in length and could be either a research report or a theoretical paper report that showcases completed work
- Panels--bring together research focused on a strong and unifying theme. Panel sessions are 50 minutes in length, and the maximum of five presenters (including the chair) could be included
- Professional Development Presentations (individual and group)--50 minutes in length and they provide professional development opportunities for practitioners, preservice teachers, or teacher educators regarding ways of teaching, pedagogy, innovating classroom activities, etc.
- Roundtable Sessions (for works in progress)--15 minutes in length; for each roundtable session, presenters will be presenting with two other presenters and the total session timeframe is 45-50 minutes
- Posters (less formal sharing of ideas and work)--presenters' conceptual belief or research is displayed on a poster; these sessions last for 60 minutes and may provide opportunities for individualized and informal discussions
In order to be considered, all proposals must adhere to the following guidelines:
- Title - 12 words or less
- Abstract - 75 words or less (used for the conference program if accepted)
- Keywords - 5 words/phrases or less
- Proposal - 500 words or less (the reference list does not necessarily have to be included in the word count)
- Please use this template for the proposal. A PDF or Word document of the full proposal must be attached to the submission.
- The proposal MUST have the following rubric components: participant engagement and innovation and relevancy
Conference Proposal Rubric
(*) denotes doubling of weight for that category
Met (2 points) |
Almost Met (1 point) |
Does Not Meet (0 points) |
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*Participant Engagement | The proposal clearly describes how the audience will engage through interactive participation beyond question/answer at the end. |
The proposal mentions but does not clearly describe how the audience will engage through interactive participation. | The proposal lacks interactive audience participation beyond question/answer at the end. |
*Innovation and Relevancy | The proposal represents a topic that is relevant, research- or practice-based, provides the audience with innovative information, tools or practices, and contributes to the field of language and literacy education. |
The proposal represents a topic that is research- or practice-based and relevant to the field of language and literacy education. The topic is not current, innovative, and/or contributive to the field. | The proposal does not show relevancy to the field of language and literacy education, is not research- or practice-based, and does not contribute to the field. |
Topic | The proposal contains an overall purpose/theme that matches with the conference call for proposals. | The proposal contains an overall purpose/theme, but loosely matches with the conference call for proposals. | The proposal contains an overall purpose/theme, but does not match with the conference call for proposals. |
Title | The title is interesting and inviting. It clearly references the information that will be discussed in the presentation. | The title provides general information regarding the topic of the conference; the title is not engaging or inviting. | The title is general and does not provide adequate information about the topic of the presentation; it is unclear or not engaging. |
Description/ Purpose |
The proposal is well-written, in an appropriate tone for a scholarly journal. It has clear and easily identifiable purpose, organized and easy to follow, evidence of a consistent and strong command of conventions. |
The proposal is written in an appropriate tone for a scholarly journal. It is somewhat organized, and has evidence of adequate command of conventions. |
The proposal is in an inappropriate tone for a scholarly journal, and has limited or no command of conventions. |
Submission Guidelines | The submission guidelines have been followed: the proposal is limited to 500 words. The submission includes an abstract limited to 75 words. No identifiers are present. |
The submission guidelines have not been followed BUT no identifiers are present. | The submission guidelines have not been followed. Identifiers have been included. The proposal cannot be accepted. |
List of Topics
Presentation Content | |
Content Area Literacy | Culture, Identity, Agency |
Digital Literacy | English Education |
Family & Community Literacy | Innovative Research Methods |
Innovative Teaching | Interdisciplinary Research and Practice |
Language (General) | Literacy (General) |
Reading | Social Justice |
Other Proposal Type |
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Empirical | |
Literature Review | |
Theoretical/Conceptual Professional Development Other |
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Suggested Interest |
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Elementary | Middle School |
High School | College/Adult Education |
Invited Speakers
Dr.Kakali Bhattacharya |
Biography: Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya is a full professor and program coordinator of Qualitative Research Graduate Certificate at the Kansas State University. Her research interests include contemplative and de/colonizing epistemologies, ontologies, pedagogies, and methodologies. She is the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mid Career Scholar of Color Award and the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mentoring Award from Division G: Social Context of Education. She focuses on creativity in inquiry, and transnational issues of race, class, gender in higher education. She has published widely, including articles in Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A cross-cultural parallel narrative has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from International Congress of Qualitative Research. She has over 70 publications including refereed articles, books, and book chapters, in addition to editorial responsibilities with a Routledge Book Series entitled Futures of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research. She is also the guest editor of four special issues of journals such as Qualitative Inquiry, International Review of Qualitative Research, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Her work has opened up new spaces in interdisciplinary de/colonizing work and qualitative research where creativity and contemplative approaches are legitimized and seen as necessary gateways for cultivating depth, expansive inquiry, and discovering critical insights. |
Dr. Jerome Harste Biography: Jerome C. Harste is a member of the Alliance of Distinguished Professors at Indiana University in Bloomington. Dr. Harste's seminal research on what young children know about language and language learning changed the profession's notions about how to teach reading and writing. Since his retirement in 2006, Dr. Harste has taken up art, working in water-based mediums. He has earned "Signature Status" in several watercolor societies and his art work has been featured in several issues of JoLLE. Dr. Harste uses his art, like he did his professional writing, to speak back to issues of injustice and inequality. As an advocate for an expanded definition of literacy, multimodality, critical literacy, ethnographic approaches to the study of language, semiotics, and socio-psycholinguistics, Dr. Harste has advocated crossing boarders thoughout his professional life. |
Publication
Presenting at the conference neither means you are obligated to publish an article nor guarantees a publication opportunity. If you are interested in publishing, manuscripts for the JoLLE Spring Issue themed around the Winter Conference are due by February 19th, 2019 at 11:59 PM EST. Please follow this link for more information about manuscript submission: http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/about/submission-guidelines/.
Venue
The conference will be held at The University of Georgia Tate Center, on February 2rd and 3th.
45 Baxter Street, Athens, Georgia, 30602
Contact
For questions or more information, please contact the Conference Chair, Tairan Qiu, at JoLLE.Conference@gmail.com.