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Oct. 2, 2002
UNM HOSTS INTER-AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM ON EDUCATION RESEARCH
The rights, roles and responsibilities of researchers and their subjects
in indigenous, border and school communities will be explored at the 10th
Annual Inter-American Symposium on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research
in Education Wednesday, Oct. 23 - Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Science and
Technology Research Park.
The symposium is hosted by the University of New Mexico College of Education
(COE) Office of Latin American Programs in Education, now a part of the
Multicultural Bilingual Education Center, and the COE Department of Language,
Literacy and Sociocultural Studies.
The first day of the symposium is open to the public. Cost is $10 for
the day and $5 after 4 p.m. An opening ceremony will take place at 9 a.m.
followed by talks featuring lead experts in the field. The theme is "Research
and Community, Collaboration and Learning." Three aspects of research
will be discussed:
" Roles and responsibilities of researchers, with particular attention
to researchers who are members of the communities
" Roles and responsibilities of researchers, with attention to those
researchers who are members of the communities they research
" Nature and complexity of the research process in diverse communities,
including the use and ownership of research findings.
Among the questions to be explored are: what defines an indigenous, border
or school community? What are the priorities, purposes, particularities,
parameters, and boundaries of ethnographic and qualitative research in
indigenous communities? How does institutional research intersect with
indigenous self-determination and educational policy? How does the research
process help collaboration and learning between researchers and the researched
in the indigenous context?
Morning presenters include: Guillermina Engelbrecht, Ph.D., director of
COE Latin American Programs in Education at UNM; Ann Nihlen, Ph.D., chair
of COE Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies; Flavia Medeiros Sarti,
University of Sao Paulo-Brazil; Mario Rueda Beltran, Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico; Etelvina Sandoval, Educacion Normal y Magisterio del
D. F./Mexico; Ma. Teresa Montero, Nancy Garcia Tafoya, Beverly Argus-Calvo,
Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juarez/University of Texas-El Paso.
Afternoon presenters include: Joseph Suina, Rebecca Blum-Martinez and
Christine Sims, UNM and Cochiti Pueblo; Analia E. Leite, Universidad Nacional
del Nordeste, Chaco-Argentina; Susan Street, CIESAS-Occidente Mexico/USA;
Ileana Contreras, Universidad de Costa Rica, and Marki LeCompte, University
of Colorado.
Several UNM graduate students will present. They are: Sandra Musanti,
Mayra Garcia, Karen Stocker, Kiran Katira, Mirta Santillan, Anselmo Torres,
Yuko Kawai, Robert George, Manela Nunez Janes and Rosario Hernandez.
For more information, call 277-3910.
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