Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association

Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture

Call for Papers

The Area of Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture is now
accepting submissions for the PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, held
March 27-30, 2013 at the Wardman Park Marriott http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasdt-washington-marriott-wardman-park/.

Educators, librarians, archivists, scholars, independent researchers and
students at all levels are encouraged to apply.  Submissions that explore,
connect, contrast, or otherwise address area themes of schooling and
education, teaching throughout history, and their linkages to popular
culture from all periods are desired.   Sample topics for papers include,
but are not limited to:

Ø  Reflections/linkages between schooling and popular culture in the United
States;

Ø  The role of history in education, teaching, or preservice teacher
education in the United States;

Ø  The use(s) of popular culture in education, teaching, or preservice
teacher education in the United States;

Ø  How education has impacted pop culture/how popular culture has impacted
education in the United States;

Ø  Representations of teaching and/or schooling in popular culture
throughout history in the United States;

Ø  Cross-border/multinational examinations of popular culture and education;

Ø  Using popular culture to subvert/supplement prescriptive curricula in
schooling;

Ø  The impact/emergence of LGBTQ studies in schooling and education;

Ø  Means to re-integrate foundations of education into preservice teacher
education;

Ø  Tapping into popular technology to improve instruction;

Ø  Multidisciplinary analyses of the interactions of schooling and popular
culture.

Deadline for proposals is November 30, 2012. To be considered, interested
individuals should please prepare an abstract of between 100-250 words and
submit electronically by visiting
http://pcaaca.org/conference/proposing_presentation.php.

Graduate students are STRONGLY encouraged to submit their completed papers
for consideration for conference award.  Graduate students, early career
faculty and those travelling internationally in need of financial
assistance are encouraged to apply: http://pcaaca.org/grant/overview.php.

Decisions will be communicated within approximately two weeks of deadline.
All presenters must be members of the American Culture Association or the
Popular Culture Association by the time of the conference.  Any further
inquiries can be directed to Dr. Edward Janak at ejanak@uwyo.edu<mailto:
ejanak@uwyo.edu>.  For additional information about the conference, please
see http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php