BONJOUR TOUT LE MONDE/ NEWS FROM YOUR PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE
SEPTEMBER 2009
Bonjour tout le monde/ACEAS/CASEA members. In this first newsletter, it is a pleasure to provide the following reflections on the conference, past year, and ACEAS priorités/CASEA priorities for the 2009-2010 academic term. For those of you who had the chance to read the June 2009 newsletter/bulletin, you will find some repetition. In the spirit of inclusivity and distributed leadership, I asked in the June newsletter that all CASEA/ACEAS members respond to the same set of questions that Executive Members and Committee Chairs together pondered and discussed at the end of CASEA/ACEAS 2009. What went well this 2008-09 academic year? What would you like the Executive and Committee Chairs to re-consider in 2009-10, and What innovations and initiatives would you suggest? Based on your in-put and our discussions as an Executive team, we propose to the CASEA/ACEAS membership the following priorites/priorités and directions for 2009-2010: Les défis/immediate challenges of CASEA/ACEAS will be to: continue to address issues around the number of members and membership participation in setting priorities and direction for the “work” of CASEA/ACEAS; continue to take up issues concerning the theoretical and practical balance between the managerial and leadership tasks of Educational Administration in the changing contexts of schools; and continue the strive to define our field of Educational Administration research and practice as it oscillates between action and reaction to current contemporary local, national, and global issues. Un GRAND MERCI/Thanks so much to the membership for taking part in on-going efforts to grow the capacity and relevancy of our association for all current and prospective members.
LES ANNONCES/ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Je suis très heureuse/happy to announce that all the 2008-09 Executive Members and Committee Chairs have agreed to stay on in their positions during the 2009-10 academic year. See the end of this newsletter for detailed contact information and please contact any of us with questions and suggestions.
At the Tuesday May 26 Board Meeting of the SCEE/CSSE, the Board of Directors listened to feedback from ACEAS/CASEA members and members from other associations and decided to maintain and not change the fee structure for those submitting proposals to the 2010 Conference. Only one author (preferably the first author) of proposal submissions to the 2010 conference will be required to be CSSE/SCEE members. At the May 25 ACEAS AGA/CASEA AGM, members passed a motion to request the Board of Directors re-consider the approval of their May 22 motion to provide funding for three years for SCEE/CSSE membership on the newly formed WERA (World Education Research Association). Although there did not seem the will to reconsider the motion and decision, there was recognition that further and more consultation needs to occur between the Executive of the Board, its delegates, and the SCEE/CSSE membership as this three-year commitment unfolds.
I asked about having all CSSE/SCEE submission abstracts put on the main website. The President and Board of Directors are in support of this decision in principle. Executive Director Tim Howard will investigate ways to do this all the while maintaining respect of privacy issues.
At the May 26 CSSE/SCEE Board of Directors meeting, association presidents were also asked to bring to the attention of members the criteria for application and nomination of individuals for the COUTTS AWARD. There have not been nominees this past couple of years. Criteria for the award are listed on the CSSE/SCEE website.
Les prochains congrès/future Congresses:
2010 – Concordia University (May 29-June 1), Montréal
2011 – University of New Brunswick/St Thomas University
2012 – University of Waterloo/Sir Wilfred Laurier University
2013 – University of Victoria
Rosemary Foster
L’ACEAS/CASEA CONFERENCE 2009
Colleagues/collègues,
We want to reiterate our thanks to CASEA/ACEAS members for contributing to a successful 2009 program at Carleton University, Ottawa! CSSE 2010, themed “Le savoir branché/Connected Understanding” is scheduled for May 29 – June 1, 2010 at Concordia University, Montréal. The deadline for proposal submissions is November 6, 2009. All proposals are to be submitted online. A proposal primer is available at http://www.csse.ca/Conference/CSSE_Submission_Primer_E.pdf.
Members are reminded of the following proposal guidelines:
- 3 pages double-spaced maximum length (not including references)
- 100 word abstract
- proposals must clearly state objectives, theoretical/conceptual framework, methods and data sources, results/interpretations, and significance for research, theory, and practice in educational administration
- French and/or bilingual proposals are strongly encouraged
- all proposals will be blind, peer-reviewed by a minimum of three reviewers
- at least one author of a proposal submission must be a CASEA member (see http://www.csse.ca/Conference/Conference.shtml for membership and registration information)
- please consider renewing your membership as soon as possible because the number of timeslots allocated to CASEA is contingent upon paid membership PLUS this will ensure you receive CASEA correspondence! J
- please circulate this to new colleagues or past members to inspire their participation in CASEA
In 2010 we will see the return of successful strategies including:
- CASEA “Conversations” – current and emerging topics in research in educational administration
- Graduate Student seminar
- Bilingual educational administration seminar
- Partnership with our BELMAS colleagues
- CASEA banquet and awards ceremony
- T.B. Greenfield Dissertation Award presentation
New this year is the presentation of the 2009 CASEA Distinguished Service Award Recipient Presentation in tandem with the CASEA breakfast on Day 1 of the conference.
Contact information for Executive Members and Committee Chairs is attached to the end of this newsletter. On veut vous voir à Montréal! Vos commentaires nous aideront à plannifer ACEAS/CASEA 2010! Your comments and feedback to any or all of the Executive Members and Committee Chairs are welcome as we plan for ACEAS/CASEA at Concordia University in Montréal, May 29-June 1, 2010.
Thanks/merci!
Matthew Meyer, 1st Vice-President & Bonnie Stelmach, 2nd Vice-President
(Program Co-Chairs)
COMITE DES CHERCHEURS/CHERCHEUSES FRANCOPHONES:
Tel que décidé à l’Assemblée générale annuelle de 2008 et confirmé à l’Assemblée générale annuelle de 2009, un comité a été formé afin d’encourager la participation des chercheurs/chercheuses francophones à l’ACÉAS/CASEA./As decided at the 2008 AGM, a committee for the participation of French-speaking scholars has been struck. Members are/ les membres actuels sont Roseline Garon (U de Montréal), Claire IsaBelle (U d’Ottawa), Carolyn Shields (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) et Claire Lapointe (U Laval). Le comité aura sa première rencontre lors du Congrès à Ottawa.
LES ELECTIONS! I will be communicating with the membership (through a separate e-mail) very soon regarding nominations and election of Executive officers for the 2010-2012 term.
A bientôt!
Claire Lapointe (la présidante sortante)
NOUVELLES DE CCEAM
At the direction of the CASEA AGM/ACEAS AGA, I contacted the Executive of the CCEAM to find out how to craft a proposal to bring the annual CCEAM conference to Canada in 2014. He indicated that business manager, Arlene Walsh, will send out a call for proposals by the end of 2009. In the meantime, it was recommended that we as an association make decisions concerning the following items that will need to be included in a formal proposal.
- Location and dates
- Name of a sponsoring organization (e.g., CASEA and possibly a local university) and a statement of support from both
- Theme
- Costs to participants, funding sources, and percentage return to CCEAM
- General program for the conference, including major speakers and visits to local educational organizations. N.B. There is a particular emphasis on the local visitation component
- Marketing and program planning
At this point, I would ask for feedback, comments and suggestions from the membership. If there are institutions interested in preparing the proposal and hosting CCEAM 2014, please contact me as soon as possible. As was mentioned at the CASEA AGM, we need to make this decision very soon.
Next steps – If the CASEA/ACEAS membership decides to submit a proposal, and I am assuming that decision was made at this year’s conference, we would need to form a planning committee as soon as possible. Please get in touch with me ASAP with your comments and ideas, and if you are interested in being part of the planning committee (kbrien1@unb.ca).
Ken Brien
FELICITATIONS/CONGRATULATIONS 2009 AWARD WINNERS!
Voici/here is a brief overview of their work.
2009 CASEA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
A highlight of this year’s CASEA banquet was the presentation of the Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Carolyn Shields. She was cited for her active involvement in CASEA, her outstanding record of research and publication, her distinguished record of teaching and preparation of graduate students, and her active involvement in other educational administration organizations throughout her career. Letters of support for her nomination included comments such as these:
- “In the nearly two decades since [becoming a member of CASEA], she has been one of our group’s brightest stars.”
- “[She] brings a refreshing reality to a field that needs reality testing in these difficult times.”
- “In all her work there is the thread of the ethical obligation of the scholar.”
2009 THOMAS B.GREENFIELD DOCTORAL AWARD
In this work, the award winner Dr. David Burgess examines the nature of contemporary interorganisational relationships involving the administration of education through evolving philosophical analyses. Through thought experiment and the employment of historical, political, economic, and psychological research, a model of interorganisational relationships is created that places at its core the psycho-pathologies of bargaining among epistemologically divergent actors. Further, an argument is made that exposes postmodernism as anemic in the face of such psycho-anthologies. The author advocates for a response from educational administration based upon Habermas’ (1971/1990) concept of communicative competence, for the purpose of developing an arena in which interorganisational relationships are based upon a Mouffian (2005) agonism.
2009 MARGARET HAUGHEY MASTER THESIS AWARD
In this work, award winner Lisa Wright claims reflective practice is receiving great attention and increased support in recent public, kindergarten to grade 12, educational discourse. However, relatively few studies seek the informative voice of principals regarding their experiences and understandings of reflective practice in relation to their roles as defined by legislation and policy. This case study reports on an investigation of Alberta principals’ perspectives of reflective practice during and after participation in the year-long Reflections on Practice: Institute for School Leaders program that was designed to enhance principals’ leadership practice through reflection. |
