27th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum

Posted by on January 20, 2006

27th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum

“Educators and Ethnographers Negotiating Ideological and Implementational Spaces”

February 24-25, 2006
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Throughout the world ideological and implementational gaps continue to develop between globalizing forces and national educational policies on the one hand and pedagogical and social justice demands in classrooms and schools on the other. Educators who negotiate these gaps on a daily basis search for third spaces and creative ways to fill them. They struggle to meet the demands of standardized assessments while trying to create curricula that are both engaging and relevant for students with diverse backgrounds. They seek out pedagogical strategies for helping their students benefit from the social and economic advantages of globalization without sacrificing local ways of being and doing. Educational researchers, in turn, attempt to understand the inter-connections and disparities between different levels of educational practice – from policy-making, to curricular design, to the work of classroom teachers. These researchers collaborate with teachers and administrators to bridge implementational gaps and to reconcile local ideologies with those reflected in educational policy, including ways of transforming, resisting and challenging those ideologies.

http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php