Dear Fellow Arts and Learning SIG Members,

We want to bring your attention to a unique AERA Professional  
Development mini-course, “Performatory Research and Inquiry” taking  
place on Saturday, April 9, 8 am – 12 pm at the Hotel Monteleone/Vieux  
Carre.  It's an opportunity to create new ways of perceiving and  
performing educational research/inquiry by experiencing the  
conceptualization and use of a performatory model of learning,  
teaching, and researching. Over the course of this professional  
development session, you will learn the fundamentals of performance  
and improvisation, how to utilize these skills in creating your  
research persona, and how to generate and/or research learning  
environments that are performance-based. We offered a variation on  
this mini-oourse at the annual meeting in Denver last year and the  
participation and response was very enthusiastic.

Please pass this along to other AERA members, SIG listserves and  
websites, colleagues and students through personal communication and  
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Much thanks,
Carrie Lobman



PDC11: Performatory Research and Inquiry (register at http://aera.net/Default.aspx?id=11142)
Lois Holzman, East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
Carrie Lobman, Rutgers University
Tony Perone, University of Illinois at Chicago

This professional development course addresses the need for  
educational researchers to develop their creativity in response to the  
demands that both public and professional dialogue are placing on  
education. New populations of students and new learning tools require  
not only new methods of teaching, teacher education, and educational  
research, but also new attitudes toward and understandings of these  
social activities and identities. The mini-course introduces graduate  
students and faculty to the performatory model of learning, teaching,  
and researching that relates to the process of inquiry as an exercise  
of social creativity. Participants learn the fundamentals of  
performance and improvisation, how to utilize these skills in creating  
one’s research persona, and how to generate and/or research learning  
environments that are performance-based.





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