SCHOLAR-ACTIVIST AWARD

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2015 AWARD WINNER, DR. ERICA MEINERS!
Please attend our SIG Business Meeting when the CESJ Board will present the 2015 ScholarActivist Award to Dr. Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, for her tireless efforts to engage in critical, participatory action research and community-based organizing to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.  The longevity, passion, and quality of Meiners' work is exemplary. Among her many notable distinctions include her work with students and various members of several marginalized communities demonstrating her commitment to social justice education in and out of the academy. The methodologies and theoretical frameworks that she writes about and applies to her research is also evident in her everyday practice. 

Additionally, Meiners has history of conducting rigorous scholar-activist work, of which a key strength is in the particular way in which she proposes/imagines alternatives at a political moment in a time where it is highly discouraged. She has sustained such work over a long period of time and her scholarship and activism are self-reinforcing, as she engages a breadth of issues including the School to Prison Pipeline, Educational Policy, and LGBTQ visibility in teacher education programs--all which offer great contributions as (or to) research and activism.

DISTINGUISHED RECOGNITION: DR. WAYNE AU, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-BOTHELL
Dr. Au's scholarship and activism around curriculum theory, equity in schools, educational policy studies, and a critique of high stakes testing has had a powerful national and international impact.  

PAST WINNERS: 
2014 - David Omotoso Stovall, University of Illinois-Chicago
2013 - Bree Picower, Montclair State University
2012 - Darren Lund, University of Calgary

2016 Scholar Activist Award
Applications Due Friday, December 11th 2015 

 Scholar Activist Award Description
This award recognizes a scholar-activist (any rank) who has made significant
 contribution to the promotion of social, environmental, racial and/or economic justice or human rights through education research that utilizes critical frameworks. Please send all materials electronically to the committee chair, Terry Flennaugh flennaug@msu.edu
 
Eligibility Requirements

• Nominee must be an active AERA member
• Nominee must have published at least two scholarly articles
• Recipient is required to attend the 2016 CESJ annual business meeting in Washington, D.C.

 
Nomination Materials


• A nomination letter including name, title, institution, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address (Self-nominations are acceptable)
• Curriculum Vitae

• Two samples of scholarly writing

• Two letters of reference providing evidence on how the nominee has used their scholarship to promote social justice

 
Evaluation Criteria

• Focus on issues of social justice:  Demonstrates a commitment to the struggle for equity, human rights and/or democracy for diverse communities.
• Critical perspective within scholarship: Promotes research, teaching, and activism centered on cultural, racial, linguistic, political, and/or economic self-determination within our classrooms, schools, and/or communities.
• Evidence of linking academic scholarship to activism: Uses scholarship as a vehicle to rethink traditional research methods and theoretical frameworks, builds upon indigenous knowledge(s), and/or center marginalized perspectives
• Consistency of scholar-activism: Demonstrates a pattern of commitment to change through the consistent development of theory and/or promotion of policies and best practices that target structural change in key areas.
• Impact of scholar-activism: A scholar-activist may show impact through scholarship, teaching and/or service. Their impact will be evaluated through the purposeful ways they are making social justice change (i.e. has their work created positive change for students, communities, and institutions towards equity

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