66.013 - Public Scholarship for Diverse Democracies: Making Education Research Matter - Interactive Town Hall Session

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Previewing the theme of the 2016 Centennial Annual Meeting, this participatory symposium will engage AERA members in defining the opportunities and challenges of situating education research as public scholarship that is accessible and useful to educators, policymakers, and the public working to strengthen increasingly diverse democracies. Together, we will review examples of such public scholarship—research either produced in partnership with various publics and/or communicated in multiple formats and public spaces (op-eds, animated websites, blogs, filmed talks, data dashboards, testimony, wikipedia entries, etc.). These examples will be followed by a conversation among prominent public scholars about the opportunities and challenges of this work. Then President Elect Jeannie Oakes will share preliminary goals for the AERA 2016 program. The final hour of the symposium will engage participants in writing, sharing and documenting their thoughts about ways to support the research community in advancing public scholarship. All materials and comments will be shared in real time on a website specifically designed for the symposium and will be used to advance our development of the AERA 2016 program.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Jeannie Oakes, University of California - Los Angeles

Participants

• Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University

• Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute

• David R. Garcia, Arizona State University

Discussants

• Michelle Renée Valladares, University of Colorado Boulder

• Kevin G. Welner, University of Colorado Boulder