Take note of the following upcoming conferences:

7 – 9 August 2009
University of Pretoria (Groenkloof Campus)
City of Pretoria
South Africa

THEME:
Educational Leadership, Management and Administration: Are we failing education?

We look forward to CCEAM participation in the International Conference from 26-27 October 2009 at Udaipur, India.

RCEAM would like to extend warm invitations to all CCEAM members to join us in Udaipur, the ‘Venice of the East and City of Lakes and Fountains’ on 26th and 27th October 2009 at Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology. The theme of the Conference is ‘Leadership for Global Excellence’.

The theme of AERA’s 2010 Annual Meeting—“Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World”—is intended to encourage submissions that address the conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities inherent in understanding how and what people learn across time and space. We encourage submissions that move beyond a narrow focus on individual sites or on purely cognitive or psychosocial explanations, or on singular conceptions of identity. Such an ecological focus encourages education researchers to draw on interdisciplinary constructs and theories, complex research designs, and multiple methods of data analysis.

We encourage submissions that examine:

• how the repertoires that people develop within and across the routine settings of their lives can be recruited to support complex learning;
• how educational settings—formal and informal—can be designed to address the interrelated cognitive, social, and emotional demands of learning;
• how multiple identities (e.g., based on family, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation) are shaped, recruited, and managed in different settings to influence goals, efforts, and persistence in acts of learning;
• how learning in organizations involves the recruitment of diverse repertoires;
• how knowledge develops and is distributed across time and space;
• how the recruitment of diversity along multiple dimensions facilitates learning;
• how learning occurs within and across time and space in complex dynamic systems;
• how transitions across schooling, including transitions to postsecondary education, are influenced by a range of ecological factors;
• how alternative organizational spaces for education, such as for-profit schools, colleges, firms, community organizations, and museums interact with schooling in recruiting and expanding repertoires for learning.

We further encourage submissions that examine learning within and across complex social and cultural ecologies from a historical perspective and that examine policy implications for improving learning in formal and informal settings in ways that take into account the complex ecological factors that help to shape opportunities to learn. We also highly encourage submissions that address the methodological challenges of studies that address this kind of complexity.

Note that members who have news of conferences and events, should send the information through to the business manager, for inclusion in both the newsletter and the website.

Further information about these conferences below will be added shortly:

• BELMAS 2010
• CCEAM – Australia 2010