Join us at the Midwest History of Education annual meeting in Chicago, IL, to be held October 10-11, 2008.
Conference Theme
Sputnik and Beyond: McCarthyism, the National Defense Education Act, Campus Radicalism, and More
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Call for papers - Click here
Extended Deadline: May 21st
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Sputnik proved to be a defining moment in the history of American education. It led to a dramatic increase in Federal support for education with all its attendant implications. Proposals for papers that address the topic of the influence of the Sputnik scare on American education and the resulting legislation, radicalism, Communist scare, and other issues affecting American education both in the immediate aftermath of the satellite launch and in their continuing influence on the shape and approach to American education are solicited.
Papers and presentations are not restricted to topics that focus on the annual conference theme or on the Midwest region of the United States. However, proposals that relate to the conference theme will be grouped into the topical sessions and presented in the main meeting room to accommodate larger audiences.
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Keynote Speaker: Wayne J. Urban
Wayne J. Urban, Associate Director, Education Policy Center and Professor at the University of Alabama will deliver the keynote speech for the Midwest History of Education Society's Annual Meeting. Based on his forthcoming book, the title of Professor Urban's keynote speech will be: The National Defense Education Act: What it Was, What it Wasn't, and How it Was, and STILL IS, Misinterpreted.
A distinguished scholar, Dr. Urban has authored several books including: Gender, Race, and the National Education Association: Professionalization and Its Limitations (2000), More than the Facts: The Research Division of the National Education Association (1998), Why Teachers Organized (1982), and the bestselling textbook American Education: A History (1996, 2000, 2004) with co-author Jennings L. Wagoner. He has also served as editor or co-editor for two recent monographs: Essays in Twentieth Century Southern Education: Exceptionalism and Its Limits (2000), and Teacher Unions and Educational Change: Retrenchment or Reform (2004).
Dr. Urban has been recognized for his outstanding scholarship by having been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship in the late 1980s and, in 2004, a two-year grant from the Spencer Foundation for his study of the Educational Policies Commission. In 2005 he received the Mary Ann Raywid Award for excellence in educational research from the Society of Professors of Education. He has served as editor of the American Educational Research Journal and Educational Studies and currently serves on the editorial boards of History of Education Review (Australia), Historical Studies in Education (Canada), and the History of Education Quarterly (USA).
An equally fine educator, Dr. Urban has taught at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, the University of South Florida, the University of Florida, Kent State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Virginia. From 1971 to 2005, he served as Associate Professor, Professor, Research Professor, and Regents' Professor of Education at Georgia State University where he also held an appointment as Professor of History. He was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Cracow Pedagogical University in Cracow, Poland in 1999 and served as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, Canada in 2004.
Committed to his profession, Dr. Urban was elected to the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) Executive Committee in 1999 and re-elected in 2002. From 2000 until 2003, he served as Secretary of the ISCHE Executive Committee. In 2003, he was elected to a three-year term as Chair of the Executive Committee (President) of ISCHE. He has also served as president of the History of Education Society (USA) and the American Educational Studies Association and vice-president of Division F, History and Historiography, of the American Educational Research Association.
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Hope to see you in Chicago in 2008!
Questions regarding the conference or this website can be sent to the 2008 Program Chair:
T. Gregory Barrett, Ph.D.,
tgbarrett@ualr.edu
