Chapel Hill Conference
I'm setting this up for us to discuss the conference. Those able to participate on Feb 25 & 26 should find this helpful for getting organinzed. You all got the proposals I sent out right? We all got accepted and our names appear on the program!
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This is from the call for papers:
In light of this year’s theme – “Situating Ourselves in Education” – the SEAES committee welcomes all proposals concerned with exchanging ideas and opening lines of inquiry regarding how one’s work is situated within the highly contested encapsulating sphere of education. Our goal for this year’s conference is to provide a forum for the open and honest exchange of ideas regarding the relationship of specialty areas to education writ large, as well as exploring our understandings of what education is. The underlying notion is that if one has dedicated his/her life to the study of education, then it is imperative to have an understanding of what education is and how one is situated within that understanding. Presenters should express themselves and their work in education so as to spark meaningful dialogue about education: to interrogate the educational metaphors and slogans so often used; and, to question why we are constructing the particular knowledge we do.
I'll soon post what I wrote in our proposals.
For the graduate student members of our group, this is what I wrote. I left it very general. You should be able to write/talk about whatever you want regarding the confernce theme.
TITLE OF YOUR SESSION:
The Voices of Teachers: Where Do We Find “The Courage to Teach?”
The presenters have recently participated together in a seminar at East Carolina University that opened them up to self-reflection and a conversation with their “inner teacher.” This course operated from the assumption that teaching, when performed well – authentically -– demands courage. Courage is one of the many names we can give to the notion of heart, that place within us where our intellect, our emotions, and our spirit converge. Great teaching demands all three. But the hearts of teachers today face many challenges – societal and institutional forces that threaten to dishearten them. We offer this “panel” as an opportunity for these future teachers to share what they have discovered in their heart that called them to teach. They will also reflect on how they foresee the challenges they will face in teaching and the role of their heart in helping them to meet those challenges.
The purpose of this panel is to share the voices of teachers as they reflect on their daily struggles in teaching, the pressures of No Child Left Behind’s high stakes testing and accountability program. Their presentations will allow their inner teachers to speak their heart’s truth concerning what led them into teaching and what enables them to continue to find the courage to continue teaching in spite of the many dis-heartening challenges that they face on a daily basis. Much of this conversation will stem from their reading of Parker Palmer’s well-known book: The Courage to Teach.
For the undergraduate / pre-service teachers among us, here the title and description of your panel:
Title: Answering the Call: Teaching, Vocation, and Heart
Abstract:
We offer this “panel” as an opportunity for these future teachers to share what they have discovered in their heart that called them to teach. They will also reflect on how they foresee the challenges they will face in teaching and the role of their heart in helping them to meet those challenges.
This is what Catherine and I will be doing:
Yours, Mine, and Ours: Reflections on the Heart’s Journey
Written proposal
The presenters have recently taught a seminar at East Carolina University that brought together a party of 7 pre-service and 7 in-service teachers. This seminar operated from the assumption that teaching, when performed well – authentically -– demands courage. Courage is one of the many names we can give to the notion of heart, that place within us where our intellect, our emotions, and our spirit converge. Great teaching demands all three. But the hearts of teachers today face many challenges – societal and institutional forces that threaten to dishearten them. We offered this “seminar” as a pathway for leading teachers to discover or, perhaps, re-discover their heart. Once found, the heart needs nourishment if it is to beat loudly through everything that we do. We offered this course, also, to help these teachers and future teachers sustain their hearts, their love of learning and discovery (including self-discovery), and, finally, their courage to teach.
The purpose of this panel is to share what we have learned about our own “inner teacher” as the result of participating in this seminar with our students.
Abstract
We offer this “panel” as an opportunity for to share what we discovered about our own “situation” in education during the process of teaching a seminar on Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach to a group of 7 pre-service and 7 in-service teachers.
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