AERA: Arts Based Educational Research Special Interest Group
Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2010 Submissions
The Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) special interest group for
the American Educational Research Association (AERA) would like to
announce its sponsorship of the ABER Outstanding Dissertation Award
for the best Doctoral Dissertation that explores, is an exemplar of,
and pushes the boundaries of arts based educational research. The
award is intended for students who have graduated in the year
preceding the award. A maximum of one award per year is available.
The winner will receive an "Outstanding Dissertation" award at the
ABER business meeting at the 2010 AERA annual meeting in Denver,
Colorado from April 30th to May 4th. The winner will also be invited
to present highlights from her or his dissertation at this meeting. In
addition, a short paper highlighting his/her work will be published in
the International Journal of Education and the Arts http://ijea.asu.edu/.
The ABER Sig will support the winner's conference fee and provide
$500.00 to assist with travel to AERA to present at the conference.
Application deadline: Friday, January 1, 2010. Must have graduated in
2009.
Submission requirements:
1. A cover letter with:
- Applicant’s name and contact information.
- Information about the school, program, and committee and
supervisor's names (and examiners where applicable) under which the dissertation was
completed.
- Dissertation title
- Defense date and Graduation date
2. A copy of the signed committee acceptance of the dissertation and/
or a letter from the supervisor stating the completion of the degree
and date of defense.
3. A short essay of no more than 3000 words, excluding references and
abstract, outlining the title, intents, theoretical framework, methodology and
findings of the study, and the significance of the research for arts
based educational research. A 100 – 150 word abstract should be
included in the same file. The essay should be ready for blind review
with no mention of the author’s name or institutional affiliation.
4. A current copy of the applicant’s curriculum vitae.
5. An electronic version of the dissertation for final review (to be
submitted upon request).
How to submit:
For the first round of the award review process, all materials will be
sent via email attachments. Please follow the criteria below.
The essay should be typed, double-spaced (including quotations,
footnotes, and references) in APA style, with ample margins, and
should comply with the specified length limitations. The author's name
and affiliation should appear on the cover letter, and only on this
document, to ensure anonymity in the reviewing process. An abstract of
100-150 words should be included in the same file as the 3000 word
essay, on a separate page.
In the email subject window please write [YOUR LAST NAME] ABER Award
Submission 2010.
All attached files should follow this format with the addition of a
number assigned according to the list above: LAST NAME ABER Award
Submission 2010[1], LAST NAME ABER Award Submission[2], etc. for
numbers 1 through 4 as outlined above.
If your submission is successful in advancing to the finalist round,
you will also be asked to upload your entire dissertation in PDF
format to a secure website. Additional information will be provided
upon receipt of items 1 - 4.
Send all materials electronically via email attachments to co-
coordinators:
Dr. Ruth Leitch
Dr. Monica Prendergast
Co-Coordinators ABER Dissertation Award
EMAIL: aber.award@gmail.com
ABER WEBSITE: http://www.aber-sig.org
SELECTED PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE ABER
Outstanding Dissertation Award
(PhD/Present Affiliation):
2009 Dr. Barbara Bickel (University of British Columbia/Southern
Illinois University)
Living the Divine Spiritually and Politically: Art, Ritual and
Performative/Pedagogy in Women’s Multi-faith Leadership
2008 Dr. Kathleen Vaughan (York University/Concordia University)
Finding Home: Knowledge, Collage, and the Local Environments
2007 Dr. Pauline Sameshima (University of British Columbia/Washington
State University)
Seeing Red: A Pedagogy of Parallax (An Epistolary Bildungsroman on
Artful Scholastic Inquiry)
2006 Dr. Christina Marin (Arizona State University/New York
University)
Breaking Down Barriers, Building Dreams: Using Theatre For Social
Change to Explore the Concept of Identity with Latina Adolescents
