Sponsored by the Center for Video Ethnography and Discourse Analysis in Education of the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University, College of Education and Human Ecology.
Welcome to the 2016 Working Conference on Discourse Analysis in Education Research. The conference is sponsored by the Center for Video Ethnography and Discourse Analysis in Education of the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University, College of Education and Human Ecology.
The Working Conference is a small conference that emphasizes dialogue and conversation about the use of discourse analysis in education research. Scholars have opportunities to share their discourse analytic scholarship, their diverse approaches to discourse analysis, and learn from each other.
Definitions of “discourse” and “discourse analysis” vary widely in education research and are approached from diverse disciplinary and inter/transdisciplinary perspectives. The Working Conference welcomes a broad range of definitions of discourse and discourse analysis. By welcoming a broad range of definitions and perspectives, it is our hope that scholars can learn from each, gain insights for their own research, and can better appreciate others’ research initiatives.
This year the Working Conference will be held at The Ohio State University, in Ramseyer Hall (Room 260), on Friday, May 20, Saturday May 21, and Sunday May 22, 2016. Please see the “Program” page for more specific information on the schedule of events.
Through this web page you can gain information about the “Program,” recommended hotel accommodations, a list of participants, the keynote panels (and readings for the keynote panels), and more.
Program
All events will be held in Ramseyer Hall on The Ohio State University campus.
Tentative Schedule of Events
Friday, May 20
- 4:00 Registration (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 5:00 Welcome (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 5:15 Keynote Panel #1 (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 7:00 Pot Luck Dinner (260 Ramseyer Hall)
Saturday, May 21
- 8:00 Coffee available (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 8:30 Keynote Panel #2 (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 10:00 Coffee / Tea Break (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 10:30 Working Groups Meet (Room location available at conference)
- 12:30 Picnic Lunch (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 1:30 Working Groups Meet (Room location available at conference)
- 3:30 Pie Break (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 4:00 Keynote Panel #3 (260 Ramseyer Hall)
Sunday, May 22
- 8:00 Coffee Available (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 8:30 Working Groups Meet (Room location available at conference)
- 10:30 Coffee / Tea Break (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 11:00 Keynote Panel #4 (260 Ramseyer Hall)
- 12:30 Town Hall Session / Closing Comments (260 Ramseyer Hall)
Keynote Panels
There are four “keynote panels” during the Working Conference. The “keynote panels” are held in Room 260 Ramseyer with everyone at the conference in attendance. The purpose of the “keynote panels” is to provoke discussion among all members of the conference. Each panel consists of four people who have been invited to respond to a classic article in the field of discourse analysis. Each person may only speak for 10 minutes (no power points are allowed and although they may use notes, no papers may be read). After the panelists have each spoken, they may briefly respond to each other; then the discussion is open to anyone to participate. Panelists have been directed to raise questions for our discussion and consideration as prompted by their reading of the article. (Bibliographic information about each article is provided below).
Keynote Panel #1 will respond to Trueba, H. T. (1988). English literacy acquisition: From cultural trauma to learning disabilities in minority students. Linguistics and Education, 1, 2, 125-151.
- Millie Gort, Chair and Moderator
- Inma García Sánchez, Panelist
- Katherine Mortimer, Panelist
- Andréa Machado de Almeida Mattos, Panelist
- Mariana Pacheco, Panelist
Keynote Panel #2 will respond to Scollon, R. (2013). Geographies of Discourse. InMultilingualism and Multimodality (pp. 183-198). SensePublishers.
- Mollie Blackburn, Chair and Moderator
- Gerald Campano, Panelist
- Cathy Compton-Lilly, Panelist
- Maria Lucia Castenheira, Panelist
- Joanne Larson, Panelist
Keynote Panel #3 will respond to Kristeva, J. (1967). Bakhtin, le mot, le dialogue et le roman.Critique, 239, 438-65.
- Caroline Clark, Chair and Moderator
- Kevin Leander, Panelist
- Huili Hong, Panelist
- Laura Sterponi, Panelist
- Karen Wohlwend, Panelist
Keynote Panel #4 will respond to Baker, C. D. (1992). Description and analysis in classroom talk and interaction. The Journal of Classroom Interaction, 9-14.
- Michiko Hikida, Chair and Moderator
- Stanton Wortham, Panelist
- Vanessa Neves, Panelist
- Diana Arya, Panelist
- Cynthia Lewis, Panelist
Working Groups
The small working groups are the heart of the conference. Each group consists of no more than 12 people. Each person will have an opportunity to share their “work-in-progress” with the group.
Here’s how the working groups function. The working groups meet three times during the conference, for two hours each time. Each person has a turn to share her/his work. The shared work may be a small bit of data or a small bit of analysis (appropriately contextualized and framed). No more than 15 minutes will be allocated for presenting the work (the moderator will stop you at 15 minutes). We encourage you to show video segments, other data, and/or data analysis and interpretations to share with the members of the working group. What you share should be work-in-progress, incomplete, or otherwise welcoming of discussion and alternative perspectives. After the first 15 minutes, the rest of the group gets to discuss the shared work for 15 minutes. They can offer suggestions for analysis, alternative interpretations, probe the shared data or data analysis for additional insights, or otherwise engage in a collegial conversation about the shared research. While brief clarifying questions may be asked, during the second 15 minutes the presenter should mostly be listening. All comments and discussion should be respectful of the risk that everyone is taking in sharing work-in-progress and should be supportive.
(Note: Although we do not prohibit the use of powerpoint presentations, we discourage the use of them. The work-in-progress sessions are intended to be informal. Although it is certainly acceptable to use notes, please do not read a prepared paper or read lengthy text from a powerpoint presentation; the working group sessions are intended to be conversations among scholars in support of each other).
The members of a working group stay together for the whole conference. This way, each person in the working group gets to hear and talk about the research of each person in the group. Because we want both the first person presenting in the group and the last person presenting in the group to have the intellectual power of the whole group, we ask that everyone at the conference commit to being at the whole conference. It is often the case that the people who are in a working group become good colleagues and friends with the others in their working group.
How do we figure out the membership of each working group? At best we can, we try to include both senior and less senior scholars, people from different universities, and people who may have similar topics. It is not always possible to balance all of these dimensions, but we try.
Conference Committee
Faythe Beauchemin
David Bloome
Mollie Blackburn
Eileen Buescher
Min-Seok Choi
Caroline Clark
Youmna Diri
Patrica Enciso
Sarah Gallo
Millie Gort
Michiko Hikida
Min-Young Kim
Jungmin Lee
Kate Miller
Leslie Moore
Astrid Sambolin Morales
Ryan Schey
Brian Seilstad
Jessica Somerville
Melissa Wilson
Yanty Wirza