[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: SYMPOSIUM FOR EUROPEAN READING IN AUSTRIA

[Judith Green]

Collin and colleagues,

Thank you Collin.  Your questions are to the point.  I attended a research summer institute in Ireland, where they invited researchers from different traditions (4) to meet with a group of national and international doctoral students and faculty.  The range of areas of focus differed from what I regularly experience at IRA or LRA or even AERA.  The EU initiative, the Bologna Process, was also discussed which is changing a key direction in higher education across national borders in EU countries.  I have found few here who have explore that impact on research initiatives.  

Any panel might want to frame how the particular approaches to studying literacy have informed the US (or not) and how participants are looking forward to a dialogue with their EU counterparts about directions and how this relates to the directions in the EU as well as across kinds of audiences.  http://www.ehea.info/

I also wonder how the discussion might be shared back with the US colleagues to explore future collaborations.  The WERA has study groups.  I wonder if RHF would want to use this session to create a study group on Futures of Research on Literacy from an International Perspective.  

Additionally, when I edited the RRE, I learned a lot about the French Response to the PISA (See Rochex, Review of Research in Education, Volume 26. 2008).  Also Jim Banks' article on the history of Multicultural Education in the Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research contrasted the multicultural education movement in the US with Intercultural directions in the EU.  I wonder if these are important to explore as RHF members create this panel.  My recent experience in Hong Kong also confirmed the need to understand the international world's directions.

Just some thoughts building on Collin's questions.  Comparative research and policy directions are showing the importance of understanding the national contexts as well as the disciplinary contexts of research in education, not just literacy.

These are shared in the spirit of how the panel will frame the arguments-- as statements or as areas for international study and collaboration.

Judith


On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Colin Harrison <Colin.Harrison at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Judy and everyone.
> 
> The European Reading Conference is excellent in many ways, but principally as a forum where folk who would never consider going to IRA get their chance to offer their perspective.  So (having presented at a number of these, and having been on the organising committee of two) I would suggest it’s important to consider some of the following questions:
> What might a librarian from Hungary want to learn from you?
> What might a teacher educator from Finland want to learn from you?
> What might a teacher of English to Slovene intending pre-school teachers want to learn from you?
> What might Australian specialist in online learning want to learn from you?
> What might specialists in the politics of adult adult literacy from Canada and Belgium want to learn from you?
> What might EFL teacher educators from Turkey, Germany and Sweden want to learn from you?
> To put it another way, the (excellent) topic “Needed research in Literacy” could be brilliant- or could come over as arrogant or irrelevant if it didn’t take account of the implied question “Whose needs?”.  So it might be good to try to gain an international- or even better, a European- perspective on the question of “Whose needs?”
> 
> If you’d care to check it out, here’s a link to the parallel sessions programme from the 2013 conference:
> 
> http://www.scira.nu/images/stories/scira_conf_sessions2.pdf
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Colin
> 
> 
> 
> From: <Langer>, Judith Langer <jlanger at albany.edu>
> Date: Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:26
> To: Ken Goodman <kgoodman at u.arizona.edu>, "reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk" <reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk>, Jane Hansen <jh5re at virginia.edu>
> Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: SYMPSIUM FOR EUROPEAN READING IN aUSTRIA
> 
> I’d be happy to chair. If anyone would like to co-chair, let me know. The call for papers is on the Web under 19th European Conference on Literacy 2015. It says “he conference will create a forum for the presentation and direction of finding of current research into the range of contemporary forms (“traditional and new” ….) I’ve never been to this conference before. How literal is “presentation of current research” meant to be?  Will a discussion of needed research in be acceptable?
>  
> After this email to all, I’ll limit the discussion to those who would like to participate.
>  
> Judith A. Langer, Distinguished Research Professor
> Director, Center on English Learning & Achievement
> University at Albany
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> Jane and those intersted in a Hall of fame symposium in Austria
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> I have been amused that we have lotsof volunteers to present aaaat RHOF symposium in Austria at the Eurpean Reading Conference but no one has volunteered to organize it, I have a suggestion. The topicof the symposium shoould be : Needed Research on literacy. Each person could pprepare a short presntation on the topic from his/her  prospective. I thin Jane shouls choose a chair to submit the propodal to Renata, perhaps Judith Langer would be willing to chair? I will be in St Louis at IRA which most unfortionally conincides.
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