Next week, members of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) will hold their annual meeting in San Diego. In the past, I have noted the “cutting edge” research presented at the AERA annual meeting. The 2009 meeting will continue the AERA’s rich tradition of presenting the most “cutting edge” research from our finest institutions of higher learning.
Rather than search for keywords, I searched for paper titles that incorporate parentheses. The search produced 196 records. While most of the authors used parentheses for acronyms, dates, or translations, a number of them used parentheses to signal that their papers were “cutting edge.” For example, the following papers use parentheses in “cutting edge” ways:
The Prefix* “(Mis)Reading the Classroom Text: A Two-Act Play on the Tensions of Student Teaching”
The Suffix “English(es) in Urban Contexts: Politics, Pluralism, and Possibilities”
The Double Prefix “Ten Years of Intra-District School Choice Policy: Student Movement and (Re/De)Segregation of Latino/a Students”
The Inserted Letter “A Postmodern Approach to Real Wor(l)d Problem Solving: Utilizing Students? Justifications of ?Unrealistic? Solutions”
The Unrelated Word “Difficult (Absent) Knowledge: A Public Museum and Its Complicity in a Contested Historical Narrative”
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*The most popular way to use of parentheses in a title.
