Making Knowledge Public: Books as Public Scholarship

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This workshop will provide educational researchers with detailed guidance on how to communicate research findings in book form in a manner that can reach a broader public and influence how issues of educational policy and practice are understood and discussed. The workshop panel will include editors from book publishing houses and authors of books whose research-based works have enjoyed broad visibility. Panelist will share insights about integrating research findings into books that will attract readers beyond the educational research community. Session participants will learn how to prepare research-based books to “make scholarship public,” and time will be given for audience participation and feedback.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Brian Ellerbeck, Teachers College Press

Participants

• Elizabeth Branch Dyson, University of Chicago

• Joel Westheimer, University of Ottawa

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Penny B. Sebring, University of Chicago

• Claudio Sanchez, National Public Radio