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Social Science History Association Education Network
2004 Annual Meeting Call
Nov. 18-21, in Chicago
Network Representatives: Sherman Dorn (University of South Florida, dorn@mail.usf.edu) and Paul Mattingly (New York University).
Note: New network website and submission site at http://www.shermandorn.com/ssha-ed-04.
Table of Contents
- Description of the Education Network
- Proposing Panel Topics and Finding Others
- Submitting Panels or Papers
- Links
Description of the Education Network
The Education Network helps scholars organize sessions at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) around the history of education broadly, including formal schooling, childhood, and informal education. The education network is one of 17 self-organizing groups of social-science history scholars who have coalesced around interdisciplinary areas during meetings of the SSHA (see links to SSHA pages below). Unlike some other organizations, the SSHA networks are not formal structures outside the planning of the annual meeting; the best analogy is to special-interest groups in other organizations. Network representatives serve as coordinators, generally, of program sessions in an area. At each annual meeting, in addition, those interested in a network brainstorm on promising topics for the next year's meeting, and the network representatives organize those ideas for dissemination.
Topics and Panels
The annual meeting of the Social Science History Association for 2004 is the 29th meeting. We encourage potential participants for 2004 to do as much of the work of making complete panels as possible. To that end, we have created the history of education and childhood research project database for you to submit a project to (not just for SSHA) and find matches. Some of the possibilities to consider:
- Topics on the larger theme of the conference, "The Market as a Site
of Interdisciplinary History." This might include any of the
following:
- A roundtable on whether public-private distinctions in schooling represent competition or symbiosis
- A paper session on recent evidence about vouchers and competition in schooling, combining economics with historian commentators or papers.
- Topics associated with the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Brown v. Board
of Education decision:
- Maybe a panel to discuss the special theme issues related to Brown in the Journal of American History, the History of Education Quarterly, and Urban Education to appear in the first half of 2004.
- A panel on teaching about Brown v. Board of Education
- A session on suburbs and Brown
- Other sessions that wouldn't be tied to the conference theme or the Brown
commemoration. Some possibilities, which do not exhaust what might be!
- The shifting meaning of "computer literacy"
- Educating for "rationality" from science education to K-12 economics education, the Chicago school of sociology, and beyond
- Black fraternities and sororities
- A book session for a volume published in the 18 months or so before the conference.
These should be potential starting points, not a restrictive list!
Submitting Panels or Papers
Those interested in participating at the SSHA can do so one of the following ways:
- Organizing a session. You can help put together or submit a session on one of the topics listed above or on another topic. If you wish to help organize one of the topics listed above, please e-mail Sherman Dorn (dorn@mail.usf.edu) who is collecting potential participants and contact information for many of the topics to give you a leg up.
- Submitting an individual paper. Prepare complete information about the paper, including a title, abstract (no longer than 250 words), and contact information (address, e-mail, and phone)
- Being a chair or discussant on a panel.
You may contact Sherman Dorn (dorn@mail.usf.edu) with the relevant information or submit material on the web at http://www.ssha.org/ (as of 11/4/03, not yet available for the 2004 meeting).
The crucial logistical information on session and individual paper proposals:
- Deadline for submissions: probably February 1, 2004.
- All program participants need to register for the meeting by late spring, including becoming members of SSHA. (The registration for non-members becoming members is a combined fee.) SSHA organizers in the past have found that requiring registration, however much a pain several months in advance, is crucial to getting commitments of individuals to attend, reducing no-shows.
- The SSHA program committee prefers complete session proposals and urge you to use the History of Education and Childhood research project database, but we will do our best to accommodate individual ("orphan") papers.
Note: New network website and submission site at http://www.shermandorn.com/ssha-ed-04
Links
- SSHA page (where one submits materials)
- European Social Science History Association
- H-Net H-Education history of education list page
- H-Net H-Childhood history of childhood list page
- History-Child-Family list page
- American Educational Research Association Division F (history of education) page
- History of Education Society
- International Standing Committee for the History of Education (ISCHE) (ISCHE 26 site for the Geneva conference in summer 2004)
Page last edited by Sherman Dorn December 28, 2003 .