2010 AERA, 5.2.10: Publication Workshop
Yesterday’s publication workshop was an inspiring (!) session regarding its informative topics provided, and I was very impressed by the open and interactive “community of practice” in the U.S. academia as represented by the workshop. It was split to two sessions. Both early-career professors and senior professors, researchers, journal editors in both qualitative and quantitative … Read more
2010 AERA, 5.1.10: The Presence of China
A Move toward Creativity
I enjoyed the panel discussion about teacher development and classroom teaching driven toward individual creativity led by two vice presidents (Mr. Youqun Ren and Mr. Qi Dong) from two best renowned colleges of education in China. I’m very glad to see this emergent change in K-12 education in China. This country was the earliest country invested printing, compass, paper making, and gunpowder, etc. for the world. However, the contemporary China seemed losing its ancestors’ creativity. The “stereotype” of Chinese students is that they are the most diligent but silent and obedient GROUP. They lack INDIVIDUAL voices and often times individual uniqueness is covered and negated by their group.
AERA, 5.1.10: Rethinking Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
The Early Childhood session on Saturday morning consisted of an all-star panel, including Dr. Tobin and Dr. Souto Manning (Discussant: Dr. Eugene Garcia). While Dr. Souto Manning presented her observational study of how teachers can create a “third space” to involve immigrant children, notice the “expected” and “unexpected” discourses disclosed by children’s conversations and make their linguistic and cultural differences “visible” in the classroom, Dr. Tobin and his colleagues talked about a cross-national project (“Children Across Borders”) in five countries investigating 1) teachers of immigrant children, and 2) parents’ participation in classroom, and the connection between teaching/parents’ participation and the culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP).
2010 AERA, 4.30.10: Virtual Schooling Presentation
I arrived at Denver last night and just had my first 2010 AERA day.
The weather in Denver seems fast-changing. There was a bit snow, then a bit rain in the morning, before it turned to be very sunny in the afternoon. This is my second visit to this city and it is great to see its bright blue sky again!
I’m staying at the Hyatt Tech Center which is about 12 miles from the Convention Center. Fortunately, the AERA bus arrives every 15 mins. I feel the transportation is organized very well by AERA!
Our presentation (Stephen and I) session (Researching Virtual Learning Environments) was from 12:00 to 1:30. There were five presentations in total. Each got 10 minutes, followed with discussant’s comments and Q&As from the audience.
