BONNE ANNEE TOUT LE MONDE
NEWS FROM YOUR PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE
BONNE ANNEE ACEAS/CASEA members. Here’s hoping you have had an excellent start to the new academic term. In this first newsletter of the New Year, it is a pleasure to provide the following information and updates. The September and November newsletters, along with other ACEAS/CASEA documents and reports, can be located on the webpage www.casea.org. Thanks to Coral Mitchell and her colleagues at Brock for maintaining this user-friendly webpage.
Priorities/priorités: In the September and November newsletters, the Executive presented 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. We believe these priorities align with the theme for the 2010 CSSE/SCEE Conference/Congrès: Le savior branché / Connected Understanding.
Updates/les annonces:
- 2010 CASEA/ACEAS CONFERENCE: will be held May 28-June 1, 2010 during the CSSE/SCEE Annual Conference at Concordia University in Montréal. Please note: (1) The CSSE/SCEE Board of Directors made the decision in June 2009 to extend the 2010 Conference/Congrès based on the increase in number of pre-conference sessions other associations offer. Friday May 28, 2010will be a day devoted to pre-conference offerings. The 2010 4 day Conference/Congrès will run from Saturday May 29-Tuesday June 1. (2) NOTIFCATION OF ACCEPTANCE or REJECTION of submissions will occur at the beginning of February following the CSSE/SCEE Program Meeting in Montréal. See the following section of this newsletter and stay tuned for more information from Program co-chairs Bonnie Stelmach and Matthew Meyer regarding these and other components of the 2010 CASEA/ACEAS Conference and program:
- Educational Administration Seminar (bilingual/bilingue) will be held Tuesday June 1, 2010. As you know, as part of our CASEA program each year we include a seminar where we invite scholars to come and lead us in a discussion about a topic or issue in Educational Administration. The topic for the 2010 Educational Administration Seminar will be “University-Based Leadership Centres: How and to what extent do they address the theory-practice divide?” The following colleagues have graciously agreed to lead us all in a debate and discussion focused on this topic and question: Kirk Anderson (New Brunswick), Paul Begley (Nipissing), Lyse Langlois (Laval), Paul Newton (Alberta), Patrick Renihan and Norman Dray (Saskatchewan). Contact me, Rosemary Foster, for more information.
- Graduate Student Seminar (more to follow from Graduate Student Representative Brenton Faubert).
- Partnership with our BELMAS colleagues (more to follow from Bonnie Stelmach and Ken Brien)
- ACEAS/CASEA Banquet and Awards Ceremony (more to follow from David Burgess and Ben Kutsyuruba). See the end of this newsletter and the webpage for details and deadlines regarding nominations for all awards.
- T.B. Greenfield Dissertation Award presentation (more to follow from Dawn Wallin)
- CASEA/ACEAS Book Launch (more to follow from Matt Meyer & David Young)
Contact information for the above mentioned Executive Members and Committee Chairs can be found at the end of this newsletter.
- CCEAM: Ken Brien has included in this newsletter a reminder of the process for a Canadian institution to make application to host the 2014 CCEAM conference.
- CASEA/ACEAS ELECTIONS: Claire Lapointe will communicate with the membership regarding nominations and election of Executive officers for the 2010-2012 two year term.
- UPDATES FROM THE CSSE/SCEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Vice-President Fernand Gervais, also CSSE/SCEE appointed member to the World Education Research Association (WERA), reported at the October Board of Directors Meeting on the activities of this new organization and its founding member institutions and associations. Documents that he presented to the Board of Directors included: The Constitution, Three Year Program for Activities, and Representatives of Associations Attending the First Council Meeting, September 26-27, 2009 in Vienna, Austria. I requested electronic copies of these documents and received the following link to pass along for your consideration, and to support further informed discussion at our 2010 AGM in Montréal (http://www.weraonline.org). As you recall, at our May 25, 2009 ACEAS AGA/CASEA AGM, members passed a motion to request the Board of Directors re-consider the approval of their May 22, 2009 motion to provide funding for three years for SCEE/CSSE membership on the newly formed WERA (World Education Research Association). At the October meeting it was agreed that communication needs to occur between the CSSE/SCEE Executive and its membership as this three-year commitment unfolds.
- COUTTS AWARD: Criteria for the COUTTS AWARD and application process are on the CSSE/SCEE website.
FEDERATION and SSHRC: There is a continued emphasis and assumption on the part of these national funding bodies that knowledge mobilization leads to social innovation. There was also discussion of a change of the peer review process for SSHRC standard grants and other grants. The idea discussed here was that the review process of grant applications continues to be “protective” of the traditional academic career path, and does not necessarily support the emphasis on (and assumptions about) knowledge mobilization and social innovation as envisioned by current Federation and SSHRC officials and administration. SSHRC will be looking for a report of “success stories” to ensure interested audiences have proof of the contribution to social innovation that results from investment of SSHRC dollars in academic research. Chad Gaffold from SSHRC invited us to send examples of “success stories” of SSHRC –funded research to him at: chad.gaffold@sshrc.ca.
QUESTION? Recently, I was asked about the history of the partnership between CASEA/ACEAS and the Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy (CJEAP). The journal is housed in the Department of Educational Administration, Foundations and Psychology at the University of Manitoba and was begun in the mid-1990s. If any of you know the history of the partnership, would you please contact me at ryfoster@ualberta.ca
On veut vous voir à Montréal!
Rosemary Foster
L’ACEAS/CASEA CONFERENCE 2010
Colleagues/collègues,
CSSE 2010, themed “Le savoir branché/Connected Understanding” is scheduled for May 28 – June 1, 2010 at Concordia University, Montréal. We want to extend our appreciation and gratitude to scholars and graduate students for reviewing CASEA proposals and/or conversation session submissions. Following last year’s practice, those who submitted proposals were asked to review up to four proposals, with the exception of graduate students, who were asked to review two or three. Your hard work at this busy time of year has not gone unnoticed.
This year there were 89 proposals and 7 conversations submitted for consideration. Membership is 186, up from 162 in 2009. Welcome and thank you to new and returning members! In line with CSSE’s instructions, notification of acceptance/rejection of submissions will be given in early February, 2010.
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 28-June 1, 2010.
Thanks/merci!
Bonnie Stelmach and Matthew Meyer (Program Co-Chairs)
LES ELECTIONS! I will be communicating with the membership (through a separate e-mail) regarding nominations and election of Executive officers for the 2010-2012 term.
Claire Lapointe
NOUVELLES DE CCEAM/BELMAS
The 2010 CCEAM conference will be held September 29-October 1 in Sydney, Australia. The deadline for workshop submissions is May 31, 2010. More information is available at: www.cceam.org. If your institution is interested in preparing the proposal and hosting CCEAM 2014, please contact me as soon as possible with your comments and ideas, and if you are interested in being part of the planning committee (kbrien1@unb.ca).
BELMAS will be held January 9-11, 2010 in Wokefield Park, Reading. Deadline for proposals is February 20, 2010. More information at: http://www.kc-jones.co.uk/rsm/6/event-page/195/1.
Ken Brien
AWARDS UPDATE
CASEA/ACEAS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS
These awards are intended to recognize those who have had a career of distinguished service in the study of Educational Administration in Canada. Distinguished Service Awards are presented at the CASEA/ACEAS annual meeting. No more than two individuals may receive an award in any given year. Candidates for the award must be nominated by a Department of Educational Administration (or other appropriate department if the nominating university has no Educational Administration unit). Candidates need not be nominated by their own institutions; any institution can file a nomination for any person thought to be meritorious. The nomination, signed by the administrative head of the nominating unit, must include:
- A complete CV for the candidate
- A written statement outlining the ways in which the candidate meets the criteria for the award
- Letters of support for the nomination from CASEA members from at least three other universities or educational agencies.
Further details on the process and criteria are found at www.casea.org. The deadline for submission of nomination packages to the selection committee chair is February 1, 2010.
Ken Brien. Chair, Distinguished Service Award Committee
THOMAS B GREENFIELD DISSERTATION AWARD
Submissions of Doctoral Dissertations in Educational Administration are invited for the award competition. The CASEA/ACAES Thomas B. Greenfield Award will be presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. The recipient will be invited to present a paper based on his or her research at the CASEA conference. Travel expenses will be covered, in part, by the association.
Selection Criteria:
- Significance of the research problem,
- Conceptualization, design, and execution of the study,
- Potential for theory development, further research, and improved practice, and
- Relevance to the field of educational administration in Canada.
Eligibility requirements for the EdD or PhD degree in educational administration must have been completed during the calendar year prior to the conference or the degree must have been awarded during that period by a Canadian university.
Normally the dissertation is submitted by the supervisor; however, there is nothing to prevent an individual submitting his/her own work. A departmental screening, if there is one, is simply to ensure that the department is willing to submit the dissertation under its name. PhD submissions are not limited to one per department; this is the case only with the Master’s award but not the Greenfield. Submission of the entries: Applicants should submit one unbound copy of the dissertation together with a 2,500 to 3,000 word article (less references), giving an overview of the study to the chair of the dissertation award committee. Submissions must be received by the chair no later than February 1, 2010.
Dawn Wallin, Chair, T B Greenfield Dissertation Award Committee
MARGARET HAUGHEY MASTERS AWARD
Submissions are invited for the CASEA/ACEAS Margaret Haughey Masters Award competition. Eligible works include Master's theses, projects, and graduating papers.
Requirements for the Master of Education degree must have been completed during the 2009 calendar year, or the degree must have been awarded during that period by a Canadian University. In assessing the theses, projects and papers submitted for the Margaret Haughey Master's Award, the following criteria will be used:
- Significance of the Topic to the Field
- Rigour and Relevance of the Conceptual framework:
- Methodological Design
- Significance and Coherence of the Conclusions
- Writing Quality and Organization of the Work
Please note that normally only two submissions will be accepted per department, so faculty should consult with colleagues prior to nominating a candidate for this award. A letter of nomination from the advisor of the eligible work or department chair, together with a single unbound copy of the thesis, project, or graduating paper should be forwarded to the chair of the committee no later than February 1, 2010. NB: THIS YEAR, WE ASK THAT ALL SUBMISSIONS BE MADE ELECTRONICALLY.
Paul Newton, Chair, Margaret Haughey Masters Award Committee.
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