2014 Journal of Language & Literacy Education Conference

“Literacy and/for Social Justice: Inspire, Engage, Create, Transform”

Georgia Center

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Due by Oct. 1, 2013

As educators, students, researchers, community members and others expand notions of what “literacy” means, they must also increase efforts to ensure that literacy opportunities are equitable for and welcoming to all.

The JOLLE Conference theme this year, “Literacy and/for Social Justice: Inspire, Engage, Create, Transform” emphasizes the role of literacy, both as a means of incorporating social justice into curriculum and as a method for performing socially just practices.  This theme welcomes wide-ranging notions of how one might define or practice literacy, and of how one’s understandings of literacy might include or address issues of social justice.   The JoLLE@UGA Conference established itself last year as being action-oriented, bridging theory and practice, informed by research and practice, and also inventive and creative.

Submissions
We invite practicing teachers, researchers, professors, community organizers and students to explore the following: How are you addressing social justice through literacy? In what ways are you learning about social justice issues from literacies found in schools, communities, or other places?  In what ways do forms of social justice shape literacy?  In what ways do literacies shape understandings of social justice?

Proposals for the conference should be submitted online at:
http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/conference/

Stegeman Coliseum
100 Smith St.
Athens, GA

Performing Arts Center
Hodgson Hall

230 River Road
Athens, GA

Crocco

6th Annual Mary Hepburn Lectureship in Social Studies Education

“Sustainability and Social Studies: Perfect Together”

Margaret Crocco
Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University

Crocco will explore sustainability education in relation to democratic dialogue and civic engagement. Drawing on issues of difference, gender and poverty, as well as the use of film as a teaching tool, the scope of Crocco’s talk will appeal to a broad range of students and faculty in the College of Education.

Lamar Dodd School of Art
Room S151

A catered reception will be held prior to the lecture at 5:30 p.m.  in the atrium.

Portes

Pedro Portes, a professor of educational psychology in the College of Education, has been invited to join the editorial board for a section of the premier peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Portes, The Goizueta Foundation Distinguished Chair of Latino Teacher Education and executive director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education, will serve on the board of the American Educational Research Journal’s (AERJ), Teaching, Learning, and Human Development section in 2014. He was selected because of his substantive and methodological expertise as a researcher in education.

A past Fulbright Scholar to Peru, Portes received the AERA’s 2005 Research Award in Human Development. He is co-author of “Vygotsky in 21st Century Society” (2011) and author of “Dismantling Educational Inequality: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap” (2005). He is co-editor of the forthcoming “U.S. Latinos and Education Policy Research-Based Directions for Change,” to be published in spring 2014.

Portes joins COE faculty colleagues Peter Smagorinsky, Donna Alvermann and Jeremy Kilpatrick who also have served on the AERJ’s editorial board.

Smagorinsky, a UGA Distinguished Research Professor in language and literacy education, has served on the AERJ editorial board since 2008. He has also served on the editorial boards of the AERA journals: Review of Educational Research (2012-15, 2009-11, 1997-99) and Educational Researcher (2007-09).

Alvermann, the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and a UGA Distinguished Research Professor in language and literacy education, served on the editorial board of the AERJ’s Social and Institutional Analysis section from 2006-11. She was named an AERA Fellow in 2012.

Kilpatrick, a Regents Professor of mathematics education, served on the editorial board of the AERJ’s Social and Institutional Analysis section from 2002-05. He was named an AERA Fellow in 2009.

Other COE faculty members who are AERA Fellows include: Mary Atwater and Roy Martin (emeritus) (2008), George Engelhard Jr., Jude Priessle and Jeremy Kilpatrick (2009), Joe Tobin and Leslie Steffe (2010).

Hughes

Kim Hughes, a doctoral candidate in the College of Education, has been selected as a 2013 Presidential Fellow by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES).

The ACES Presidential Fellows program supports emergent leaders and educators in the profession of counselor education. Each of the five ACES regions nominates four individuals—two new professionals and two graduate students—who show a high level of professional commitment and potential for future leadership. Hughes was one of only two graduate students selected in the Southern region.

Hughes, of Snellville, a student at UGA-Gwinnett, is expected to receive her Ph.D. in counseling and student personnel services in May 2014. Her doctorate has a P-16 educational focus with an emphasis on social justice and advocacy. She is the 2014 chair of the Georgia Safe School Coalition’s 4th annual Gay-Straight Alliance Summit, which is scheduled to be held Feb. 15th, 2014, at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.

Hughes has a private practice in Decatur. The native of Washington, D.C., earned her master’s degree in mental counseling from Georgia State University in 2008. She received her B.A. in English from Spelman College in 1989.

Each fellow receives a complimentary registration to the 2013 ACES Conference in Denver, Colo., and will be highlighted as a fellow at the awards luncheon on Oct. 19.