I hope this post finds you all doing well! I have great news - the NERA proposal has been accepted. The following is all the information they have sent me thus far... if I get more info about dates, things we need to do, etc. I'll be sure to pass it along. Oh also four of our names were missing, but I already emailed them to let them know. Good luck in the final weeks before school starts!
Kerri :)
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From: <neraprogramchairs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Subject: NERA 2012 Conference Proposal
To: kerri.fenton@gmail.com
Dear Kerri Fenton:
Thank you for submitting the proposal entitled Education for Global Citizenship: Exploring Teacher and Student Experiences for the upcoming NERA Conference. We are delighted to inform you that the work has been accepted into a NERA 2012 Individual Paper session. Congratulations! We look forward to the contribution this work will make to the conference.
In some cases, the accepted session format differs from the session format selected during submission. Decisions about session format were made after consideration of scheduling constraints, reviewer feedback, and the overall conference program content. Please let us know if you have concerns.
As contact author for this proposal, we ask that you forward this email to any co-authors on the proposal. Information about the date and time of the session will be sent to you at this email address as soon as it is available. In the meantime, we are urging all presenters to do the following:
1. VERIFY THE PROPOSAL INFORMATION. Please examine the proposal title and author information below. If any of this information is incorrect, please email us immediately with corrections.
2. READ REVIEWER FEEDBACK: Each proposal was reviewed by 2-3 NERA members. Below you will find the anonymous reviewers� ratings for this proposal on each of the five criteria that are used to evaluate proposals. Reviewers were also given the option of providing open-ended comments to the authors; if reviewers provided comments they are also reproduced below.
3. REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE: We have accepted your proposal under the expectation that one or more of the authors on the proposal will personally present at the conference. Please affirm this expectation by registering for the conference promptly. You will receive a separate email that will contain instructions on how to register for the NERA conference using the newly developed online system.
4. BEGIN PREPARING FOR YOUR SESSION: What you will prepare will depend on your session type (i.e., papers for paper sessions, symposia, and posters; summaries for paper discussions). We will follow up with more details about this when we send your session date and time.
5. MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS: Reduced hotel room rates at the Sheraton Hartford South Hotel are offered up until September 28th for NERA conference attendees. As long as rooms are available, reservations may be made online by going to the NERA website (www.nera-education.org) or by calling 1-888-627-8263 and requesting a room in the NERA block.
Please let us know if we can be of assistance to you as you complete any of these tasks.
Gilbert Andrada, Tia Sukin, and Craig Wells,
2012 NERA Program Co-Chairs
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PROPOSAL TITLE:
Education for Global Citizenship: Exploring Teacher and Student Experiences
PROPSAL AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Ashley Baffour - Addo University of Connecticut Julia Ballek University of Connecticut Rebecca Brooks University of Connecticut Emalie Berke University of Connecticut Natalie Curran University of Connecticut Kate Grayeb University of Connecticut Melissa Levenstein University of Connecticut Christina Rheaume University of Connecticut Jonathan Simmons University of Connecticut Tara Stockmon University of Connecticut
REVIEWER 1 RATINGS:
Educational or Scholarly Significance
3
Perspective or Theoretical Framework
2
Methodology
3
Clarity of Expression
3
Appeal to NERA Membership
3
REVIEWER 1 COMMENTS:
This is a very interesting proposal. The authors did a very good job overall. I only have a few comments and recommendations, which I have listed below:
I would have liked to see a better established purpose for the study. That is, why is the study so important? Has no one else studied global education before?
In addition, I found the language unclear at times. There were quite a few undefined terms (e.g., key stages), some grammatical errors (e.g., "data" is plural and requires a plural verb form), and some confusing sentences (e.g., the sentence starting with "Conclusions from the teacher survey show...").
Finally, the implications described in the last paragraph seemed rather vague and not necessarily related to the results. Aligning the points made in this section with the purpose, the analyses, and the results of the study would strengthen the paper as a whole.
REVIEWER 2 RATINGS:
Educational or Scholarly Significance
3
Perspective or Theoretical Framework
1
Methodology
3
Clarity of Expression
3
Appeal to NERA Membership
3
REVIEWER 2 COMMENTS:
This is an important investigation with a solid, though smaller scale design than the authors seem to claim. The triangulated design has good potential and the clarity of the proposal is strong. i found the implications section interesting and promising; it formed the basis for my belief in the proposal/study as having solid educational importance. I do think the authors would be advised to develop a stronger theoretical framework in the final paper. We need to understand not only a review of the literature on global education but the particular theoretical framework on global ed they are using to evaluate the teachers, the students, and the national curriculum. Judgments are made about the results so far but, as a reader, it is not clear how these judgments are being made. A stronger theoretical framework used for analysis in this paper would strengthen it. Second, more specific language needs to be used. For example, they talk about students being "exposed" to global education. I don't know what that would mean by what is offered here. I suspect that level of specificity will improve in a final paper; some of this lack of specificity may be due to the nature of the proposal. Still sharper language should be used when discussing results.
Yay!!! Great work Kerri and everyone else of course too. This is very exciting!!!!!!
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