Keynote Addresses Thursday May 4
	Marie Battiste (Aboriginal Education Research Center, University of Saskatchewan) "The Global Challenge: Research Ethics for Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage" Indigenous communities continue to face an onslaught on their knowledge from researchers who both discriminate against their knowledge and desire to obtain the knowledge they hold. Finding a receptive climate for Indigenous knowledge is one challenge, finding educational institutions and their educators to be inclusive within culturally appropriate and ethical standards is the next challenge. This presentation offers background to the importance of Indigenous knowledge for all peoples and its vitality and dynamic capacity to help solve contemporary problems and addresses Eurocentric biases, the cultural misappropriations that are endangering Indigenous peoples and the benefits they may receive; an overview of the current regimes of ethics that impinge on Indigenous knowledge, and finally, a critique of institutional ethics processes that continue to hold on to individual and institutional protections, and not collective Indigenous interests.
	Michelle Fine (National Research Council, National Academies of Science) "Do you believe in Geneva? Participatory Action Research, Critical Methods and Indigenous Knowledges" Drawing on a series of critical participatory action research projects launched in prison, schools and community with historically marginalized youth and young adults, I am interested in interrogating the politics and methods of interrupting what Gramsci called the 'passive revolution', the drip fed ideologies of neo-liberalism that saturate. The question birthed by Katrina -- who is looting and who is merely salvaging some bread for their family -- will frame our conversation about justice, research, politics and the realigned public sphere.(based on a paper by Michelle Fine, Eve Tuck and Sarah Zeller Berkman)
Plenary and Special Sessions Friday May 5 — Saturday May 6   1.  Doing and Troubling Policy Science Michael Feuer at the National Academy of Sciences and Elizabeth St.Pierre at the University of Georgia will continue the dialogue across differences they began last year at this conference, this time with a focus on Dr. Feuer's area of expertise, policy science. Feuer explores the relation between cognitive science, rationality, and education policy; and St.Pierre responds with a discussion of how Feuer's work has challenged her to pay attention to educational policy even as she deconstructs it. Michael J. Feuer Director of the Behavioral, Social Sciences, and Education Division National Research Council National Academies of Science 500 5th St. Washington, DC 20001 Phone: (202) 363-2472 Email: mfeuer@nas.edu Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre Language & Literacy Education Department 125 Aderhold Hall University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Phone: (706) 542-5674 Email: stpierre@uga.edu 2. Do We Need Standards for Qualitative Inquiry? A Roundtable Discussion This session grows out of discussion at last year’s Congress in terms of whether qualitative research needs standards and, if so, of what sort and by what process. Frederick Erickson and Harry Torrance will present short discussion papers. Pam Moss will serve as discussant for their remarks. Patti Lather will chair the session and help open up the discussion to the audience. Our hope is that we “get somewhere” in terms of understanding 1) the context in which such issues are raised, 2) the possibilities and dangers of standards for qualitative research, 3) what standards might make sense, and 4) what process for delineating standards might make sense and how might such standards be used (and abused). The panel’s hope is to set the stage for a broad based discussion of such matters that includes a high degree of audience participation. Participants Patti Lather Ohio State University 121 Ramseyer 29 W. Woodruff Columbus OH 43210 614-699-3044 Lather.1@osu.edu Harry Torrance Head of Research Institute of Education Manchester Metropolitan University 799 Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 2RR, UK tel: (+44) (0)161 247 2320 H.Torrance@mmu.ac.uk Frederick Erickson George F. Kneller Professor of Anthropology of Education Graduate School of Education & Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles Moore Hall, Box 951521 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521 e-mail: ferickson@gseis.ucla.edu Pamela A. Moss University of Michigan 4220 School of Education 610 East University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259 734-647-2461 pamoss@umich.edu                   3. Qualitative inquiry, Ethics and the Politics of Evidence: Working within These Spaces Rather Than Being Worked Over by Them Just as qualitative research is “endlessly creative and interpretative” (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005), qualitative researchers find themselves in the position of having to be endlessly creative and interpretive with respect to the various spaces they move in and out of as they conceptualize, conduct, write and report their research. Two such spaces are new and mutated forms of “old” regimes of truth based in audit culture, and refracted forms of methodological fundamentalism and imperialism emanating from without, but significantly also increasingly within, writing and talking about qualitative research. Navigating and moving in and out of these spaces creates tensions but also possibilities for qualitative researchers. This presentation aims to encourage a focus on better understanding these spaces, and how qualitative researchers do and might, work within and on these spaces. As Baumann (2005) points out “To work in the world, as distinct from being ‘worked out and about’ by it, one needs to know how the world works”. This applies to the aspects of our worlds that we call qualitative inquiry, ethics and the politics of evidence. Participants Professor Julianne Cheek Director, Centre for Research into Sustainable Health Care, School of Health Sciences Director, Early Career Researcher Development, University of South Australia School of Health Sciences City East Campus University of South Australia Steinar Kvale Department of Psychology University of Aarhus Pat Sikes(Chair) School of Education University of Sheffield Janice Morse University of Alberta Int'l Institute for Qualitative Methodology 6-10, University Extension Centre University of Alberta 8303 112 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada  T6G 2T4   Lan Stronach Education & Social Research Institute Manchester, Metropolitan University                     4. Critical/Performative/Reflexive/Auto/Ethno/Graphy (or Writing Through the Boundaries): New Directions in Qualitative Inquiry This plenary session explores the promises and possibilities in approaches to qualitative research that bleed and blend the boundaries of categorical distinctions such as critical ethnography, performance ethnography, autoethnography, reflexive ethnography and what might be considered "traditional" ethnography to take the best of each; enhancing each as a perspective on the other and productively exposing the tender vulnerability and culpability of researchers using sympathetic and empathic methods of humanistic research in performance, communication and educational research.  Participants Bryant Alexander (Chair) Department of Communication Studies California State University Los Angeles Stacy Holman Jones Department of Communication University of South Florida Cynthia Dillard Integrated Teaching and Learning Ohio State University Sandy Grande Education Department Connecticut College             5. Narrative Environments The purpose of the session is to provide an analytic framework for examining the storying process in everyday life.  Much of narrative analysis in the social sciences has focused on the internal analysis in the social sciences has focused on the internal “turns” in the sociological study of narrativity.  Personal stories especially have been examined for the internal themes and structures representative of particular life experiences or social worlds.  This spotlight session features a second, more recent turn, dealing with narrative environments.  The focus will be on how the circumstances of story formation and storytelling shape the storying process, both in terms of what is told and how that is conveyed.  A variety of sensitizing concepts will be discussed and illustrated, including narrative practice, narrative ethnography, narrative embeddedness, and narrative control.  The session will highlight the reflexive properties of interactional and institutional control. Participants Jay Gubrium Department of Sociology University of Missouri-Columbia James Holstein Department of Social & Cultural Sciences Marquette University     6. Emergent Knowledge in Acts of Writing: Writing Against the Grain of Dominant Discourses Participants Bronwyn Davies School of Education James Cook University, Australia Elzabeth St. Pierre Language & Literacy Education Department University of Georgia   Suzanne Gannon Education University of West Sydney, Australia Eva Bendix Petersen Education Charles Sturt University, Australia           7.The Regulation of Interpretive Research and Ethical Conduct in the Academy: Dilemmas, Tensions and Contradictions Participants Katherine Ryan(Chair) Department of Educational Psychology College of Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thomas Schwandt Department of Educational Psychology College of Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   Gaile Cannella Early Childhood Education College of Education Arizona State University Nick Burbules Department of Educational Policy Studies College of Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   Leon Dash Department of Journalism College of Communications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign                     Discussant: Lizanne Destefano Department of Educational Psychology College of Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   8.Evolving Ethical Systems, Human Subjects Protection, and Transnational Research Contexts. Participants Radhika Viruru (Chair) Texas A&M University Marie Battiste University of Saskatchewan   Beth Swadener Arizona State University Yvonna Lincoln Texas A& M University   Cliff Christians University of Illinois Gaile S. Cannella Arizona State University
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