CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Education Harlem: Histories of Learning and Schooling in
an American Community
Scholarly Conference Series
Teachers College
Columbia University
Sponsored by the Teachers College Program in History and
Education, Institute for Urban and Minority Education, and Center on History
and Education
Fall 2013 and Fall 2014
We seek to establish a scholarly community focused on
investigating the history of education, broadly defined, in 20th century
Harlem. We invite proposals for papers to be presented at two conferences at
Teachers College, for which travel expenses will be paid. The first conference,
October 10-11, 2013, will offer authors an opportunity to present
works-in-progress for discussion with fellow contributors and selected senior
scholars participating as discussants. Revised and completed papers will be
presented at a larger public conference in October 2014. Most or all of the finalized papers will be
published as an edited volume or journal special issue. We welcome submissions
from graduate students as well as junior and senior scholars, and from
historians as well as those undertaking historical analysis in other social
science and humanities fields.
*Conference Focus*
All of the forces that shaped education in the 20th
century U.S. ran through Harlem, often in amplified form because of the
particular confluence of people, ideas, and institutions in this community.
Nonetheless, Harlem remains understudied in the history of
education.
By investigating the historical forms and meanings of
education - in schools and beyond - in Harlem, we hope to support and provoke a
rich vision of the place of education in communities and the reciprocal
relationships between communities and schools. We will help explain why and how
education has taken the forms that it has, by considering the roles of
communities, students, teachers, policy makers, local and national leaders, and
political and economic trends in shaping learning and schooling in local
context.
Contributions may include studies sited in Harlem that
explore, but are not limited to:
* Community
and youth advocacy for education broadly defined
* The city as
educator: formal and informal education in non-school settings
* Contested
notions of educational equality
* Curricular
innovation and experimentation
* College and
university interaction with urban schools and districts
* Education
within social movements and organizing traditions
* Teacher organizing and professionalism
* School
governance and leadership
* Advocacy
for, and the influence of, higher education
* The urban
built environment as it relates to schooling and learning
* Schools and
the production of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and gender identity
* Cultural and
artistic production and education
* Schooling
and the carceral state
We are particularly interested in studies sited in Harlem
that:
* Link
historical narratives of urban history (in housing, employment, health, and
other aspects of urban life) with narratives of learning and schooling
* Integrate
knowledge of local activism and organizing with attention to the policy choices
and structural forces against which local activists and organizers struggled
* Examine
historical developments in politics and economics that help contextualize and
explain contemporary school reform efforts
* Introduce
new ways of researching stories of learning and schooling
*Opportunities in Digital History*
Contributors to the conference also will have the
opportunity to explore how their research could relate to a digital archive on
the history of education in Harlem, now under development at Teachers College.
Inspired inpart by the model of University of Sydney's
*Digital Harlem* http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/harlem/
, the digital archive will use a spatial interface to present both existing
archival material and new contributions. Scholars who have ideas for how their
research might contribute to or benefit from such a digital resource are
welcome to describe these ideas in an addendum to their submission.
*Submission guidelines:*
Please describe your proposed contribution in an abstract
of no more than 1,000 words, including the paper's sources, historiographical
context, and key contributions. Please also include a one- to two-page C.V.
Submissions will be accepted electronically, via an
online submission system accessed via http://www.tc.edu/a&h/history-ed/
until February 1, 2013.
If you need additional information or have questions,
please contact Ansley Erickson, erickson@tc.columbia.edu
The Educating Harlem project is made possible by support
from the Teachers College Provost's Investment Fund, Thomas James, Provost and
Dean of the College.
Ansley T. Erickson, Assistant Professor, History and
Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ernest Morrell, Director, Institute for Urban and
Minority Education and Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Cally Waite, Associate Professor, History and Education,
Teachers College, Columbia University
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