{"id":43929,"date":"2021-10-26T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=43929"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:56:56","slug":"call-for-abstracts-for-edited-volume-how-we-want-to-learn-radical-student-voices-from-the-academy-in-a-crises-world-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/call-for-abstracts-for-edited-volume-how-we-want-to-learn-radical-student-voices-from-the-academy-in-a-crises-world-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Abstracts for Edited Volume:   &#8220;How We Want to Learn!&#8221; Radical Student Voices from the Academy in a Crises World (Virtual)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Are you a student who is frustrated with your education? Do you feel disengaged? Unsatisfied with PowerPoint lectures and hungry for more community in your classes? Passionate about social movements on campus? Are you feeling anxious in the face of climate change and angry about ongoing structural racism and other forms of inequality? Are you troubled by the pandemic\u2019s unprecedented technological transformation of education? Looking for a way to process and deal with school functioning more like a business focused on the bottom line rather than on providing you with an enriching education?<\/p>\n<p>Submit an abstract to our edited volume \u2013 \u201cHow We Want to Learn!\u201d: Radical Student Voices from the Academy in a Crises World. This edited volume explores the rarely heard radical voices of graduate and undergraduate students expressing in critical and heartfelt ways how YOU want to learn, as opposed to how &#8216;we&#8217; in the academy want to teach. This is your opportunity to dream about what school would look like in an ideal world. Write about your frustrations, your personal experience of pain or of success in an academic or other learning setting. Write about the learning that has set you on fire \u2013 or your longing for such an experience.<\/p>\n<p>We seek academic works that can take any form such as theoretical, autoethnography, ethnography, or other styles that enable you to document your experiences and \/ or those of other students. Creative submissions are strongly encouraged \u2013 including poems, prose, art, photography, personal narrative \u2013 whatever form of expression you are passionate about, we are interested in!<\/p>\n<p>Accepted submissions will become part of a diverse community of passionate students. As we work together to craft this edited volume, we will dream together about transformation of education and of society.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submission Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7Last date of Abstract Submissions &#8211; January 15, 2022<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7Abstracts should be approximately 500 words<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7Include a short bio\/introduction in your email \u00b7Submit via email to cara.cancelmo@uconn.edu &amp; phoebe.godfrey@uconn.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[50,124,131,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43930,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929\/revisions\/43930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}