AERA 2016 Action Research SIG Sessions

Saturday, April 9, 2016

8:15

Sat, April 9, 8:15 to 9:45am, Convention Center, Level Two, Exhibit Hall D Section C

Session Type: Roundtable Session 17—Action Research Exploring Current Issues

• Building Capacity for Technology-Enhanced Teaching in Higher Education Through Faculty Technology Leadership Roles - Candace Figg, Brock University; Kamini Jaipal-Jamani, Brock University; Tiffany L. Gallagher, Brock University; Diane Collier, Brock University; Kari-Lynn Winters, Brock University; Katia Ciampa

• Exploring Assessments That Measure and Support the Development of Adaptive Teaching Expertise: An Action Research Inquiry - Elizabeth Gayle Soslau, University of Delaware

• Exploring the Ethical Knowledge and Practice of Educators - Deirdre M. Smith, The Ontario College of Teachers

• The Effects of Implementation of Action Research on Efficacy of Middle School Teachers of Mathematics - Mary E. Little, University of Central Florida

2:15pm

Sat, April 9, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Marriott Marquis, Level Four, Mint

Symposium: International Action Research: Sharing Public Scholarship in Diverse Global Educational Contexts

Chair: Lonnie Rowell

• Revitalizing Pedagogy, Education, and Praxis: Internationalizing Action Research as "Resources for Action and Hope" - Christine Edwards-Groves, Charles Sturt University

• Educational Action Research in South Korea: Practitioners Finding Meanings - Mina Kim, San Francisco State University; So Jung Kim

• Donor Influence in Community-Based Action Research: Typology for Advancing Reflexive Decision Making to Protect Participatory Values - David P. Moxley; Valerie Thompson; Zermarie Deacon, University of Oklahoma

• Commentary on the Action Research Laboratory: A U.S. School-Based Action Research Program - Joseph C. Senese, Northwestern University

• A Snapshot of Action Research in and by Higher Education in Southern Africa - Lesley Wood, North-West University; Catherine Dean; Pieter Hertzog Du Toit, University of Pretoria; Omar Esau, Stellenbosch University; Angela Antoinette James, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Paul Mokhele; Ansurie Pillay

Discussants: Margaret Riel, Pepperdine University and Joseph Shosh, Moravian College

6:15pm

Action Research SIG Business Meeting

Sat, April 9, 6:15 to 7:45pm, Marriott Marquis, Level Four, Liberty Salon N

Session Type: Community/Business Meeting

Everyone is welcome!!!!

Sunday, April 10, 2016

2:45pm

Building Foundations for Strategic University-Community Research Collaborations for Equity: Challenges and Opportunities

Sun, April 10, 2:45 to 4:15pm, Marriott Marquis, Level Four, Treasury

Chair: Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz

Papers

• Regional-Scale Cross-Sector University-Community Equity-Oriented Research Collaborations: Lessons From the Field - Ethan Chang, University of California - Santa Cruz; Rebecca A. London, UC Santa Cruz; Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz; Emily Borg, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Seeding University-Community Research Collaborations: What Matters? Objectives - Ethan Chang, University of California - Santa Cruz; Rebecca A. London, UC Santa Cruz; Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz; Saugher Nojan, University of California - Santa Cruz; Sheeva Sabati, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Pivoting From Critical Service-Learning to Youth Participatory Action Research: The Challenges and Benefits Perceived by Undergraduate Participants - Jerusha Osberg Conner, Villanova University

• Community-Based, Participatory Research: Documenting Young People's Engagement as Decision Makers and Knowledge Producers - Dana E. Wright, Connecticut College

• Symposium References Papers 1, 2, 3 - Ethan Chang, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Symposium References Paper 4 - Dana E. Wright, Connecticut College

Monday, April 11, 2016

10:00am

Collaborative and Community Action Research: Working Together for Change

Mon, April 11, 10:00 to 11:30am, Marriott Marquis, Level Four, Mint

Session Type: Paper Session

Chair: Claire Elaine Durwood, Consortium on Chicago School Research At The University of Chicago

Papers

• A Democratic Imperative: Developing Racial Literacy Among Urban Youth - Van Lac, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Engaging Practitioners in School Reform Through Participatory Action Research - Elizabeth Willingham Ferrell, Chicago Public Schools

• Revisiting the Roles of Teachers, Policy Makers, and Researchers in Curriculum Inquiry: Tensions, Perspectives, and Insights - Yuen Sze Michelle Tan, University of British Columbia; Matthew Jason Atencio, California State University - East Bay

• Teacher Action Research With a Social Justice Focus: A Path to Community Change - Michelle Y. Szpara, Cabrini College; Carolyn Pencheff, Pequea Valley School District; Sheila Harrison, Eastern Lancaster County School District

• Teacher Action Research With a Social Justice Focus: A Path to Community Change - Michelle Y. Szpara, Cabrini College; Carolyn Pencheff, Pequea Valley School District; Sheila Harrison, Eastern Lancaster County School District

• Visualizing Community Building and Social Capital in a Youth Participatory Action Research Program Using Social Network Analysis - Melo-Jean Yap, University of California - Los Angeles; Rebecca Colina Neri, University of California - Los Angeles; Jasmine Wilson, Howard University; Louis M. Gomez, University of California - Los Angeles

2:45pm

Action Research: Challenges and a Promising Future

In Event: Roundtable Session 46

Chair: Elena Yu Polush, Ball State University

Papers

• Roadblocks in Teacher Action Research: Navigating a Bumpy Path - Megan Blumenreich, City College of New York - CUNY; Julie R. Horwitz, Rhode Island College

• Postracialism: Crafting a Course to Challenge the Myth in Brazil and the United States - Vernon Lindsay, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Teacher Reflection in Action Research: Toward a Framework of Its Forms and Conditions - Helma Oolbekkink, Radboud University Nijmegen; Paulien C. Meijer, Radboud University Nijmegen; Johan Luttenberg, Radboud University Nijmegen

• Assessing Youth Participatory Action Research: The Individual and School Experience - Nicole Mittenfelner Carl, University of Pennsylvania; Sharon M. Ravitch, University of Pennsylvania

• Co-Constructing a Youth Leadership and Engagement Program Through Action Research - Lauren K. Chicoski, Southern Connecticut State University; Laura Bower-Phipps, Southern Connecticut State University

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

10:35am

Tue, April 12, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Convention Center, Level Three, Ballroom A

Action Research in Teaching and Teacher Education

Session Type: Roundtable Session 52

Chair: Courtney M. Clayton, University of Mary Washington

Papers

• Shifting the Paradigm for Professional Learning: Toward Participatory Action Research as Teacher Professional Development - Shannon Marie Pella, University of California - Davis

• Analyzing Teacher Preparation of Special Education Teachers in an Alternative Certification Pathway - Boris Krichevsky, University of Washington - Seattle

• Breakfast of Innovators: Action Research, Scholarship, and Bilingual Education - Sandra T. Acosta, Texas A&M University; Xuewei Chen, Texas A&M University - College Station; Heather Goltz, University of Houston-Downtown

• The Questions Prospective Teachers Ask: Problematizing the Present to Create Possibilities for More Equitable Classrooms - Sharon B. Hayes, West Virginia University; Harrison Ntabo Oonge, West Virginia University; Barbara Wierzbicki, West Virginia University

• Validity as a Matter of Practice: Criteria to Guide Participatory Action Research Dissertations and Theses - Emily F. Cole, University at Buffalo - SUNY

2:15pm

Tue, April 12, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Marriott Marquis, Level Four, Treasury

Creating Spaces in Schools for the Critical Professional: Action Research as Principled Resistance

Session Type: Symposium

Chair: Michael Ian Cohen, University of Northern Colorado

Papers

• Toward a Critical Professional With Action Research at Its Center - Gary L. Anderson, New York University

• The Potential of Insider Action Research in Making Transparent Everyday Enactments of New Public Management - Kathryn G. Herr, Montclair State University; Michael Ian Cohen, University of Northern Colorado

• Reframing Teachers' Action in Curriculum Poststructural Research in Times of Neoliberal Policies - Elizabeth Macedo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

• Reflexive Musings and Current Contingencies: Creating New Spaces as Critical Professional Action Researchers - Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University