Eisner SIG Newsletter
February 2019 AERA Edition
Elliot Eisner SIG #177
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In This Issue:
- Message from Dr. David Flinders, Elliot Eisner SIG Chair
- AERA Eisner SIG Sessions
- Featured Business Meeting Speaker, Dr. Peter Hlebowitsh
- SIG Recruitment Committee
Message from the Elliot Eisner SIG Chair
The program for the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting in Toronto is now online, and we have an exciting lineup of Eisner SIG sessions to mark on your calendars. My thanks again to everyone who submitted to our SIG. We are also delighted to have Dr. Peter Hlebowitsh as our keynote speaker at the Elliot Eisner SIG Business meeting Sunday April 7th at 7:05 to 8:35 in the Convention Center (200 level, rom 201A). Dr. Hlebowitsh is an exemplary scholar who has drawn on and extended Eisner’s ideas in a variety of ways. He is also the Dean of the University of Alabama College of Education, and a founding member of National Hedgehog Society.
The educational values that our SIG strives to promote might be expressed in a number of ways. I always think of a short expression that Elliot often used when I was one of his doctoral students. “Life is not a multiple-choice test,” Eisner would quip in response simplistic proposals for addressing entrenched educational problems. A fellow doctoral student and I liked this expression so much that we had it stenciled on to a t-shirt, which we presented to Elliot as a gift. I never thought I would be referencing a t-shirt for an academic quote, but the meaning should be clear. Educating both others and ourselves is a rich, vibrant, and, yes, a very messy process achieved through nuanced and careful deliberations, risk-taking, and an enduring commitment to look ever more closely at our ideas and aspirations.
Finally, I would like to express my deep thanks to the members of SIG. We are still a “SIG-in-Formation,” so membership numbers remain a key factor in determining our future. So please, seek out others who share our interests in careful deliberations, risk-taking, and the wonderfully messy business of educational research. Speaking for myself, I find begging, bribing, and arm-twisting to be strategic recruitment options.
David J. Flinders
Professor of Curriculum Studies
Indiana University
Friday, April 5 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F
Papers: "Exploring Visual Art Students' Balanced and Successful Thinking in Project-based Learning Environments" by Delane Ingalls Vanada, Univesity of Florida and Boston University; "Kurt Rowland's Visual Education: A Bridge Between Levels of Human Experience" by Donna Goodwin, University of Northern Colorado, and Bruce Uhrmacher, University of Denver; "Re-Visioning Eisner's Arts and the Creation of Mind: Contemporary Arts Pedagogy and Advocacy" by Jennifer Bartee, University of Denver
Saturday, April 6 from 8:00 to 10:00 am Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 202D
Paper Session: This session offers a look at educational connoisseurship and criticism in theory and practice.
Chair: Bruce Uhrmacher, University of Denver
Papers: "Ecologically Minded Educators Across Contexts" by Christy McConnell Moroye, University of Northern Colorado; "Exploring the Impact of a Perceptual Mode of Teaching: Implications for the Complementary Curriculum" by Alicia Brianna Saxe, University of Denver, and Jodie Wilson, University of Denver; "Imagining New Possibilities: Haikus as Evaluation" by Daniel Robert Conn, Minot State University, and Joseph Zajdel, Minot State University; "Juxtapoetics: Aesthetic Uncovering of Racist Logics within a Crisis Intervention Team Training's Instructional Arc" by Tara Meister, Pacific University; "Participant to Sommelier: Co-Connoisseurship in Educational Criticism and Connoisseurship" by Brittany Margaret Miller, Denver Public Schools
Sunday, April 7 from 7:05 to 8:35 pm Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201A
Everyone is welcome to attend, and we hope you will make plans to join us.
Elliot Eisner SIG Business Meeting
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201A
Sunday, Apr 7, 2019, 07:00 PM
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC), Front Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada
RSVPs are enabled for this event.