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Call for Proposals for QRN 2017
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Call for Proposals: Individual Research Presentations for the Qualitative Research Network (QRN) to be held Wednesday, March 15, from 1:30 – 5:00 at the 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Portland, OR.
The Qualitative Research Network, which occurs annually at the CCCC, is offered for new and experienced qualitative researchers. The QRN provides mentoring and support to qualitative researchers at all levels of experience and working in diverse areas of study within the college composition and communication community. As a pre-conference research network, the QRN is open to everyone, including those who are already presenting at the conference in other venues.
Proposal Due Date: November 21, 2016.
Keynote Presentation:The initial hour of the workshop will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Elaine Richardson, Professor of Literacy Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where she teaches in the Department of Teaching and Learning. Her research interests include the liberation and critical literacy education of people of the Black African Diaspora.Dr. Richardson's books include African American Literacies (2003, Routledge), which focuses on teaching writing from the point of view of African American Language and Literacy traditions, and Hiphop Literacies (2006, Routledge), which examines Hiphop language use as an extension of Black folk traditions.Her urban education memoir, PHD to PhD: How Education Saved My Life (2013, New City Community Press), chronicles her life from drugs and the streetlife to award-winning scholar and university professor and art activist.Dr. Richardson is also Director of The Ohio State University Hiphop Literacies Conference and the Education Foundation for Freedom, a non-profit organization focused on educational empowerment of women and girls.
In her keynote address, which comes out of her forthcoming book Our Literacies Matter: Reading the World with Black Girls, Dr. Richardson will revisit her conceptualization of African American Literacies, trace broad trends in past and current work, and highlight her current efforts toward building community and collective critical consciousness with Black women and girls using a multifaceted approach that weaves together creative performance inquiry, storytelling, dialogic hip-hop, and critical feminist and media literacies.This approach toward repositioning students as knowledge‐making agents of social change, Richardson argues, is essential for making literacy education socially just.
For Richardson, the term African American Literacies encapsulates sociocultural approaches to African American literacy education advanced by the various subfields: including sociolinguistics, critical pedagogy, reading, rhetoric and composition, and New Literacies Studies. African American Literacies offers Black people a means of accurately reading their experiences of being in the world with others and acting on this knowledge in a manner beneficial for self-preservation through economic, spiritual, and cultural uplift. Such literacies, Richardson asserts, include cultural identities, social locations, and social practices that influence ways that members of this discourse group make meaning and assert themselves sociopolitically in all communicative contexts. Importantly for Richardson, African American literacies extend beyond acting with print and language in their strict and broadly defined senses to include a host of multimodal strategies for making meaning in the world.
Research Roundtables:The final two and a half hours of the workshop will feature research roundtables where novice and experienced researchers will present work-in-progress for feedback and discussion. Experienced qualitative researchers will be on hand at each table to offer suggestions and facilitate discussion. Each presenter will have twenty to thirty minutes for both presentation and discussion of their work-in-progress.
Presenters at the research roundtables may focus on specific concerns and/or broader issues related to qualitative research.
Proposal Information:Please send via email a brief description (approximately 500 words) of your research proposal by November 21, 2016, to both Will Banks () and Kevin Roozen (), Co-Chairs, Qualitative Research Network.
We encourage submissions from those at any stage of the research process (e.g., planning, data collecting, data analyzing, publishing).
Please be sure that your proposal includes a brief overview of the research project, the stage of its development, and the questions/issues you wish to discuss with other researchers. Place your proposal in the body of the email and also attach it as a file (.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf). Descriptions need not be exhaustive. We ask that you provide a general overview of your study as well as a statement about the kinds of feedback you would like to receive. If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact us.
***Presenters for research roundtables will be notified of their acceptance by December 1, 2016. We will request confirmation of acceptances by December 15, 2016. ***
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