Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
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.
For Conference details click http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.phpDeadline for proposal submissions is December 15.
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 from librarians, archivists, scholars, educators, and students at all levels. Sample topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
- Reflections/linkages between schooling and popular culture in the United States;
- The role of history in education, teaching, or preservice teacher education in the United States;
- The use(s) of popular culture in education, teaching, or preservice teacher education in the United States;
- How education has impacted pop culture/how popular culture has impacted education in the United States;
- Representations of schooling throughout popular culture’s history in the United States;
- Cross-border/multinational examinations of popular culture and education;
- Multidisciplinary analyses of the interactions of schooling and popular culture.
To be considered, interested individuals should please send an abstract of no more than 250 words (electronically preferred) e-mailed/postmarked by December 15 to:
Dr. Edward Janak
Dept. 3374
College of Education
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071
(307) 766-3769
ejanak@uwyo.edu
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. For additional information about the conference, please visit the PCA/ACA website at http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php