This directory of AERA SIGs is in alphabetical order. Websites & email addresses, when available, are listed. Although we check this page for errors frequently if you should notice a non-working link please let us know. If your SIG is interested in creating or moving its webpage to the AERA website, please let us know.

SIGs: | A–G | H–Q | R–Z | All |

H–Q

Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies (SIG #178)
Purpose:	Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies
Contact:	Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia, Conyers, GA, [email protected]; Joycelyn Wilson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, [email protected]
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

Hispanic Research Issues (SIG #46)
Purpose:	To provide opportunities for exchanging information among and between researchers and practitioners interested in issues of concern to Hispanics in the United States.
Contact:	Margarita Machado-Casas, The University of Texas - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, [email protected]
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Hispanic Research Issues

Holistic Education (SIG #135)
Purpose:	Developing human potential through integrating intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual competencies in the teaching/learning process.
Contact:	Ida Oberman, Community School for Creative Education, Alameda, CA, [email protected]; Juli B. Kramer, Independent Researcher, Englewood, CO, [email protected]
Dues:	$7.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Holistic Education

Inclusion & Accommodation in Educational Assessment (SIG #96)
Purpose:	To promote research and disseminate information on activities and projects promoting the inclusion of all students, including students with disabilities and English language learners in large-scale assessments.
Contact:	Anne H. Davidson, Anne H. Davidson, South Lake Tahoe, CA, [email protected]
Dues:	$7.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Inclusion & Accommodation in Educational Assessment

Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (SIG #48)
Purpose:	Formally the American Indian and Alaska Native SIG, we have evolved in name and focus to promote a better understanding of theoretical-, policy-, and practice-related issues that influence the quality of traditional and contemporary education among indigenous peoples.
Contact:	Jeremy Garcia, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, [email protected]
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Indigenous Peoples of The Pacific (SIG #146)
Purpose:	To research indigenous education related to the peoples of the Pacific and Pacific Rim, including indigenous ways of knowing and indigenous practices.
Contact:	Patricia Maringi Gina Johnston, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Whakatane, New Zealand, [email protected]
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

Informal Learning Environments Research (SIG #49)
Purpose:	To further educational research in informal learning environments and to promote a community practice interested in establishing and maintaining a better understanding of teaching and learning.
Contact:	Maureen A. Callanan, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)

Instructional Technology (SIG #52)
Purpose:	To encourage, promote, and support research on the design and development of instruction and the computer-based, electronic, and non-electronic media technologies that are used for its delivery.
Contact:	Pasha Antonenko, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Instructional Technology

International Studies (SIG #54)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for exchanging information among educators involved in research, planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of international studies.
Contact:	Sharon Anne O'Connor-Petruso, Brooklyn College - CUNY, Port Washington, NY, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	International Studies

Ivan Illich (SIG #161)
Purpose:	The purpose of the Ivan Illich SIG is the promotion of intellectual consideration of the social critique and analyses of Ivan Illich, named by the Utne Reader "as the most important social critic" of the 20th century.
Contact:	Madhu Suri Suri Prakash, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, [email protected]
Dues:	$6.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

Language and Social Processes (SIG #58)
Purpose:	To explore directions in and issues of language and discourse practices, literacy, and learning processes and social contexts through studies grounded in sociocultural, constructivist and constructionist perspectives.
Contact:	Mariana Souto-Manning, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, [email protected]
Dues:	$8.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Language and Social Processes

Large Scale Assessment (SIG #141)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for discussion of the status, issues, and concerns related to large-scale assessment, including practices and innovations in state assessment programs.
Contact:
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)

Law and Education (SIG #59)
Purpose:	To focus on legal issues affecting K-12 public and private education, as well as post-secondary education.
Contact:	Catherine L. Horn, University of Houston, Houston, TX, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Law and Education

Leadership for School Improvement (SIG #101)
Purpose:	To examine how leadership of teachers, principals, and superintendents influences instructional capacity resulting in improved student outcomes and how policy guides this collaborative effort.
Contact:	Hans W. Klar, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, [email protected]
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Leadership for School Improvement

Leadership for Social Justice (SIG #165)
Purpose:	To promote social justice teaching, research, service, and policymaking agendas, with the corollary aim of seeking to proactively improve educational leadership as a means of addressing equity concerns for underrepresented populations throughout P-20 education; also to share innovative, promising, and research-based programs, policies, and teaching strategies and proactively advocate on behalf of underrepresented populations in educational leadership.
Contact:	Martin Scanlan, Boston College, Boston, MA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Leadership for Social Justice

Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership (SIG #129)
Purpose:	The LTEL SIG brings together professors and graduate students of educational leadership and administration, discipline specialists, educational theorists, curriculum developers, instructional technology specialists, learning specialists, educational researchers, classroom experts, practitioners, policymakers, and others concerned with Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership. The LTEL SIG provides a forum for: A managed conversation on issues related to learning and teaching in Educational Leadership and Administration; the integration of theoretical quantitative and qualitative studies of learning and teaching in Educational Leadership; discussion of investigations conducted in real educational settings, including investigations involving application of technology to learning and instruction; exploration of innovative methodologies; analysis of the implications of research and practice for learning and teaching in Educational Leadership; and assessment of the relationship of learning and teaching in Educational Leadership to policy development at local, state, and national levels.
Contact:	Daniel Reyes-Guerra, Florida Atlantic University, Miami, FL, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership

Learning Environments (SIG #120)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for dissemination of quantitative and qualitative research on all aspects of learning environments from classrooms and schools to non-school settings.
Contact:	Donna Wilson, Center for Innovative Education and Prevention, Siesta Key, FL, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Learning Environments

Learning Sciences (SIG #39)
Purpose:	Purpose: To bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives and empirical approaches to the study of learning as it occurs in school, online, in the workplace, at home, and in the community, and to the design of novel environments with the potential to facilitate learning more effectively.
Contact:	Breanne K. Litts, Utah State University, Logan, UT, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	https://www.facebook.com/SIGATL

Literature (SIG #61)
Purpose:	To promote research that explores literary inquiry and interpretive practices, including innovative approaches to literary education in various contexts.
Contact:	Denise Davila, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, Oakland, CA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

Lives of Teachers (SIG #62)
Purpose:	To promote the interchange of ideas and scholarly activities focused on inquiry into the lives of teachers. Teachers shall be defined as those working with students in classroom and tutorial settings, from pre-school through university. Research shall be viewed as inclusive of methods appropriate to the question of study and topics such as teacher narrative, biography, research on teacher development, including career trajectories, teacher characteristics, beliefs, and attitudes, and teaching as a profession; accounts of teachers lives in different times and in different countries; and portrayal of teachers in written literature, film and television.
Contact:	Karrin Lukacs, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

Longitudinal Studies (SIG #63)
Purpose:	To support and foster the understanding of longitudinal research designs and analyses in education and the use and dissemination of longitudinal data and substantive findings, including data from national (e.g., NCES), state (e.g., state administrative/tracking systems), and local (e.g., district) sources.
Contact:	Anne Hafner, California State University - Los Angeles, Long Beach, CA, [email protected]
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Longitudinal Studies

Marxian Analysis of Society, Schools and Education (SIG #157)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for and advance research that examines educational and social issues from Marxian perspectives.
Contact:	Peter L. McLaren, Chapman University, Orange, CA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Marxian Analysis of Society, Schools and Education

Measurement and Assessment in Higher Education (SIG #64)
Purpose:	To provide an association, and to promote continuing education for individuals with an interest in college-level administration of educational and psychological measurement services.
Contact:	Natasha Alexis Jankowski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Measurement and Assessment in Higher Education

Media, Culture, and Learning (SIG #65)
Purpose:	Devoted to critical inquiry and pedagogy on the use of media within cultural settings in formal and informal learning environments.
Contact:	Danielle Christine Herro, Clemson University, Greenville, SC, [email protected]
Dues:	$7.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Media, Culture, and Learning
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/MccSig

Mentorship and Mentoring Practices (SIG #66)
Purpose:	To foster mentoring programs and experiences, initiating research on the topic and providing networking and support.
Contact:	Kathleen Mary Cowin, Washington State University - Tri-Cities, Richland, WA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Mentorship and Mentoring Practices

Middle-Level Education Research (SIG #88)
Purpose:	To improve, promote, and disseminate educational research reflecting early adolescence and middle-level education.
Contact:	Shawn A. Faulkner, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://mlersig.net/
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/pages/Middle-Level-Education-Research-SIG-of-AERA/208048892608947

Mixed Methods Research (SIG #158)
Purpose:	To support, encourage, and increase dialogue and idea exchange among educational researchers utilizing mixed methods and those interested in integrating qualitative and quantitative research approaches.
Contact:	Lisa Hall Foster, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, [email protected]
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Mixed Methods Research

Moral Development and Education (SIG #67)
Purpose:	To promote discussion about controversies and areas of agreement within the fields of moral development and education, and to provide informal opportunities for social interaction.
Contact:	Richard D. Osguthorpe, Boise State University, Boise, ID, [email protected]
Dues:	$12.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Moral Development and Education

Motivation in Education (SIG #68)
Purpose:	To advance the understanding of motivational processes in education, particularly by promoting research, exchanging ideas and perspectives, and by developing practices and interventions to improve learner motivation.
Contact:	Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, [email protected]
Dues:	$20.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://www.motivationsig.net

Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (SIG #162)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for the introduction, promotion, consideration, interaction of theory, research and practices regarding multicultural and multiethnic education, broadly defined, within all educational, cultural, societal and social settings, contexts, levels and locations.
Contact:	Christopher B. Newman, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)

Multilevel Modeling (SIG #140)
Purpose:	To promote the understanding, use, and dissemination of information regarding hierarchical linear modeling.
Contact:	Hsien-Yuan Hsu, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, [email protected]
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Multilevel Modeling

Multiple Linear Regression: The General Linear Model (SIG #70)
Purpose:	Interested in any methodological, applied, or teaching innovations related to multiple linear regression and/or the general linear model
Contact:	William Holmes Finch, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, [email protected]
Dues:	$20.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Multiple Linear Regression: General Linear Model

Music Education (SIG #71)
Purpose:	The purpose of the Music Education SIG is to provide a professional forum for the discussion and dissemination of current research related to music teaching and learning.
Contact:	Ronald P. Kos, Jr., Boston University, Newton Center, MA, [email protected]
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Music Education

NAEP Studies (SIG #99)
Purpose:	To facilitate secondary analysis of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ongoing surveys regarding U.S. students knowledge, attitudes and experiences in diverse learning areas.
Contact:	Julie K Williams, California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

Narrative Research (Formerly "Narrative and Research") (SIG #145)
Purpose:	The Narrative Research SIG (Special Interest Group) of AERA is dedicated to supporting conversations about the place of narratives in educational research including but not limited to phenomenological, literary, critical, and performance conceptions of narrative analysis. The purpose of the Narrative Research SIG is to provide a forum for the exchange of information among individuals interested in informing/rethinking narrative research through a variety of narrative research studies in/with participants in a variety of educational settings.
Contact:	Janice Huber, University of Alberta , Edmonton, Canada, [email protected]; Roland W. Mitchell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, [email protected]
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	https://sites.google.com/site/aeranarrativeresearchsig/

Online Teaching and Learning (SIG #35)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for discussion and reporting on issues and research related to online teaching and learning
Contact:	Steven R. Terrell, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Online Teaching and Learning

Organizational Theory (SIG #73)
Purpose:	To encourage scholarly inquiry and debate relating to traditional and alternative views of educational organizations.
Contact:	Ebony N. Bridwell-Mitchell, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Organizational Theory

Out-of-School Time (SIG #160)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for researchers in out-of-school time teaching and learning to share resources and become each others' resources; to provide venues and opportunities to present related research; to bring additional knowledge and resources to AERA.
Contact:	Tara Donahue, McREL, Traverse City, MI, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Out-of-School Time

Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation (SIG #159)
Purpose:	To honor Freire’s legacy by promoting scholarship that applies, extends, critiques, and reinvents Freirean pedagogy. Also, to promote historical scholarship that looks at the life of Paulo Freire and the context of his ideas and practices. Finally, to act as a catalyst for the creation of new forms of critical pedagogies that build upon the foundation that Freire established.
Contact:	Venus E. Evans-Winters, Illinois State University, Peoria, IL, [email protected]; Richard V. Kahn, Ph.D., Antioch University Los Angeles, Northridge, CA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Peace Education (SIG #74)
Purpose:	To create a global forum for scholars from diverse backgrounds and with varied perspectives to report and critically explore educational research and promote constructive changes in the areas of peace keeping, peace making, peace building, peace education, nonviolent conflict resolution, reconciliation, mediation, and more.
Contact:	Candice C. Carter, Saint Martin's University, Lacey, WA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Peace Education

Philosophical Studies in Education (SIG #76)
Purpose:	Dedicated to the philosophical study of education and encourages scholarship within all types of philosophical study.
Contact:	Bryan R. Warnick, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Philosophical Studies in Education

Politics of Education (SIG #152)
Purpose:	To foster and support the conduct, dissemination, discussion, and application of research on the political functions and outcomes of education at all levels.
Contact:	William Kyle Ingle, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, [email protected]
Dues:	$40.00 (1 yr); students $20.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://www.politicsofeducation.org/

Portfolios and Reflection in Teaching and Teacher Education (SIG #77)
Purpose:	To discuss research and practice in developing, mentoring, and evaluating portfolios, as well as other forms of reflective pedagogy and assessment.
Contact:	Barbara Rae Peterson, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Portfolios and Reflection in Teaching and Teacher Education

Postcolonial Studies and Education (SIG #153)
Purpose:	The Postcolonial Studies and Education SIG is an international SIG devoted to the study of education in and as effects of postcolonial, transnational, and globalization contexts.
Contact:	Aparna Rita Mishra Tarc, York University, London, Canada, [email protected]
Dues:	$7.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Postcolonial Studies and Education

Problem-Based Education (SIG #78)
Purpose:	To provide a professional forum and network for those involved in research, theory, teaching, and development in problem-based learning for kindergarten through professional school learners.
Contact:	Xun Ge, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Problem-Based Education

Professional Development School Research (SIG #79)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for university and school professionals to discuss approaches for forming PDSs, methods for assessing outcomes, and strategies for conducting systematic change research.
Contact:	Gwendolyn T. Benson, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Professional Development School Research

Professional Licensure and Certification (SIG #80)
Purpose:	To provide a forum for discussing the status, issues, and concerns related to licensure and certification of professionals, including competency testing and related practices.
Contact:	Carol A. Morrison, National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, PA, [email protected]
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Professional Licensure and Certification

Professors of Educational Research (SIG #81)
Purpose:	To promote dialogue and research on the teaching and proper usage of quantitative and qualitative educational research methods.
Contact:	Arturo Olivarez, The University of Texas - El Paso, El Paso, TX, [email protected]
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Professors of Educational Research

Qualitative Research (SIG #82)
Purpose:	To provide opportunities for discussion related to the philosophy, purposes, and methodological issues surrounding the use of qualitative research in social and educational contexts.
Contact:	Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://aeraqrsig.org/

Queer Studies (SIG #60)
Purpose:	To foster empirical, interpretive, and critical educational research relating to lesbian and gay issues, and to network individuals and organizations conducting or supporting such research.
Contact:	sj Miller, NYU-Metro Center, New York, NY, [email protected]
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
Website:	https://sites.google.com/site/queersig/home