UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

NCECA
National Council on education for the Ceramic Arts
March 19-22, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.nceca.net/

AAACS
American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
http://calvin.ednet.lsu.edu/~aaacs/index.html

AERA
American Educational Research Association
March 24-28, 2008
New York, NY
http://www.aera.net/

NAEA
National Art Education Association
March 26-30, 2008
New Orleans, LA
http://www.naea-reston.org/convention-nopostcard.html

Texas NAME Conference
National Association for Multicultural Education
April 18-19, 2008
Southwestern University
Georgetown, TX
http://www.coe.unt.edu/Texas_NAME/

QI2008 • The 4th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
International Center for Qualitative Inquiry
May 14-17, 2008
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.icqi.org/

9th Annual Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference
October 22-25, 2008
Decatur, GA
http://www.curriculumandpedagogy.org/conference.html

culture and curriculum faculty

Lynn M. Burlbaw

History of Education; Social Studies; History; Geography; Curriculum Development and Evaluation

B. Stephen Carpenter, II

Art Education; Art, Public Pedagogy and Social Justice; Contemporary Art; Hypertext Curriculum Theory and Design; Visual Culture; Arts Based Research

Elizabeth Foster

Curriculum Development; Educational Mentoring; Leadership Development; Peer Tutoring; Teacher Preparation & Retention

Valerie Hill-Jackson

Curriculum; Multicultural Education

Patricia Larke

Cross Cultural Mentoring; Effective Multicultural Teachers; Retention of Teachers of Color

Patrick Slattery

Arts Based Research/Aesthetics; Hermeneutics; Multicultural; Philosophy of Education; Postmodernism; Public Pedagogy and Social Justice; Queer Theory and GLBTIQ Issues

Janet Hammer

How American Schools Respond To National Tragedies; The History of Houston Independent School District's Bilingual Education Program; The effects of No Child Left Behind on English Language Learners