Call for Proposal
Welcome to UCEA’s Call for Proposals
page for the 2005 Annual Convention!
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: PROPOSAL SUBMISSION IS CLOSED
Convention Theme
Call for Proposal 
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The 2005 convention theme, “Democracy
in educational leadership: The unfinished journey
towards justice,” aims to advance
the conversations of issues related to diversity,
equity, social justice and ethics in educational
leadership. Historically, many educational leaders
find themselves in teaching, research and activism
as the torchbearers of various interpretations of
democratic ideals. These ideals are fundamentally
rooted in the contexts of cultural understandings,
belief systems, and the creation/enactment of governmental
policy. Educational institutions, however, begin
this journey and stop at the basic levels of understanding
and interpreting democratic ideals and transforming
these ideals into social behaviors. Those involved
in the wide range of approaches to teaching and
researching about educational leadership should
continue to critique the definition and enactment
of democracy in order to develop initiatives, action
steps and purposeful civic engagement so that all
of education’s stakeholders can complete this
unfinished journey toward, “justice for all.”
Teachers and researchers in all areas of educational
leadership must face the challenges to expand instructional
practices and include diverse theoretical constructs
that support more than the status-quo in educational
leadership. Schools as a microcosm of society must
have social and political structures that help them
maintain and build on existing foundations to create
lasting social change. To this end, those in educational
leadership on various levels play an integral role
in helping to create, critique, and implement educational
leadership that embodies the belief that “democracy
matters.”
This raises a number of questions for research,
practice, and the preparation of educational leaders:
- How do we define civic values and democratic
ideals in educational leadership?
- What are the implications for democratic leadership
related to the preparation of educational leaders
for the 21st century?
- Why should democracy matter in educational
leadership?
- What is/should be the role and responsibility
of the field of educational leadership/administration
in addressing issues of democracy and schooling?
- How do we prepare school leaders to promote
academic success for all children while simultaneously
facilitating the development necessary for citizenship
in a participatory democracy?
- How is justice represented in educational leadership/administration?
- In a democratic society, many choices involve
whether to support people or groups who advocate
certain public policies. In what ways has UCEA
met the challenges and dilemmas that may pit our
understanding of democratic ideals and values
against each other?
- How can UCEA continue the journey toward equity
and social justice in ways that will institutionalize
the embodiment of democratic ideology in teaching,
research and activism?
Session Categories
Submitting Your Proposals
Proposal Submission Site
Note to Authors:
- ALL authors must sign up to submit proposals;
if you have submitted a proposal before but forgot
your password, use the FORGOT PASSWORD? link to
retrieve your password.
- New authors will need to sign up before submitting
a proposal.
- To continue to the proposal submission pages,
select AUTHOR.
If you have questions about the proposal submission
process, please do not hesitate to contact UCEA
at 573-884-8300 or e-mail ucea@missouri.edu.
For information regarding content and scope of theme,
please contact the 2005 Program Committee.
Michael Dantley, Miami University
President-Elect, 2005 UCEA Convention
dantleme@muohio.edu
513-529-6834
Judy Alston, Bowling Green State
University
Co-Chair, 2005 UCEA Convention
jalston@bgnet.bgsu.edu
419-372-7313
Mark Gooden, University of Cincinnati
Co-Chair, 2005 UCEA Convention
goodenma@ucmail.uc.edu
513-556-3533
Notification and Communication
Once you submit your proposal, you should receive
an immediate e-mail response from UCEA Headquarters
confirming your submission. Once all of the proposals
are reviewed and selections are made for the convention,
you will receive another e-mail from UCEA Headquarters
indicating whether your proposal was accepted or
declined. All applicants will be notified no later
than July 31, 2005 regarding the status of their
proposal.
All subsequent communication concerning proposal
submissions will be with the session organizer,
who will be responsible for sharing information
with other members of the session.
Proposal Acceptance
Information regarding session title, description,
and session members will be taken directly from
the proposal submission information and used for
the convention’s printed and online program.
UCEA will post the preliminary program for two
weeks for presenters and session organizers to review
for changes to the information. Presenters will
be alerted in advance in regards to this posting.
The updated information from this pre-posted program
will be used to build the printed program. Once
the preliminary program is pulled from the website,
no further updates can be made on the printed version.
UCEA will update the online program as requested.
No correction pages will be distributed at the convention.
Instead, participants are urged to consult the web
program for updates.
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