In A Helpful User’s Guide to the 2007 AERA Conference, Rick Hess does a great job criticizing the “scholarship” to be found at the annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference.
Sample papers include:
“Beyond the Anglicist and the Creolist Debate and Toward Social Change”
“The Whig Party Don’t Exist in My Hood’: Knowledge, Reality, and Education in the Hip-Hop Nation”
“Exposing Contradictions: Students ?Talk Back’ to Discourses on (Im)migration” and “Immigrant Identity and Racial Formations: A LatCrit Theoretical Analysis Case Study”
“The Educational Lives of Alaska Native Alumni of the University of Alaska-Anchorage”
“Centering the Overlooked Issues in Multicultural Teacher Education: AIDS, Accent, Adoption, (Dis)Ability, and Poverty.”
It is no wonder our schools are not improving. We are too busy trying to resolve the Anglicist and Creolist debate.
