Call for proposals
7th Annual Second City Conference on Disability Studies in Education
Date of conference: APRIL 7, 8, 9 2007, Chicago
Program chair: Missy Morton, Christchurch College of Education, Missy.Morton@cce.ac.nz
Theme and call for proposals
Disability Studies and Inclusive Education: Implications for Practice?
The theme for the 2007 DSE conference continues the interest in the relationships between Disability Studies and Inclusive Education. Where the 2006 DSE conference examined the goals of inclusive education, in 2007 we turn to the implications for practice.
Disability Studies offers a way to interrogate and interrupt the tendencies of various claims of inclusive education to perpetuate exclusion. If, as Slee & Allan (2002) suggest, inclusive schooling could, or should be, "a social movement against educational exclusion" what are the implications for our practices as educators, researchers, policy makers (and who else)?
We invite proposals that include a variety of stakeholder perspectives, such as students, educators, parents, other professionals, policy-makers. We are interested in examining sites of practices that cover early years, primary, secondary and tertiary education, and what we do in pre-service and in-service for teacher education and related-professionals education. Proposals should use a DSE framework that emphasizes the social conditions of schooling and that recognizes the socially constructed nature of disability. Possible questions to consider include:
- How we might recognize an approach to inclusive education that is informed by DSE - at the level of the classroom, and/or educational setting, and/or teacher education, and/or policy?
- How do we think differently about curriculum and how can curriculum work be influenced by disability studies in education? How can disability studies contribute to the development of accessible curricula?
- What are the purposes, uses, and practice of assessment and how can assessment be shaped by disability studies in education?
- How are the aims, roles, and practices of related services (i.e., speech therapy, school psychology, social work, student services, etc.) by disability studies?
- How do we think differently about policy and how are policy aims and anticipated outcomes transformed by disability studies in education?
- What are the theoretical innovations in disability studies in education and what are their implications for practice?
We further welcome proposals that consider the above from historical and/or global and/or comparative perspectives, or that draw on the intersectionalalities of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability or other characteristics.
Proposal submission guidelines
The program committee invites you to submit proposals to be considered for presentation at this 7th Annual Second City Disability Studies in Education Conference. The types and formats of the proposals are detailed below.
Please submit all proposals as Microsoft Word attachment to Dr. Missy Morton at Missy.Morton@cce.ac.nz. The deadline for submission is 1 December 2006. Acceptances of these proposals will be sent as soon as possible after they are received and reviewed. Our goal is to make decisions by mid-January.
Presentation formats
Paper proposals. Persons wishing to make a single presentation should submit a proposal to include the following:
- Title of presentation
- Name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, email address, and telephone for the presenter
- Names and institutional affiliations of any co-authors
- A 200-300 word abstract for the presentation
- A plan for providing alternative accessible formats that will be available to participants.
Related paper proposals will be grouped into 1 hour and 15 minute sessions on the program.
Panel proposal. Persons wishing to organize a panel discussion for the conference should submit a proposal for an entire one hour and 15 minute session. These should include at least three and no more than five presenters. Be sure to reserve time for discussion The proposal should include:
- Title of the panel
- Name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, email address, and telephone for each presenter
- Name of panel chairperson
- A 400-500 word abstract for the panel, to include both discussion of the overall topic and a very concise statement of what each presenter will discuss.
- The amount of time allocated to each presenter and for discussion
- A plan for providing alternative accessible formats that will be available to participants.