Workshop on Textbook Controversies
February 8, 2008
423 ILR Conference Center, Cornell University

Overview

Schedule

Abstracts

Participants

Organizers

Logistics

Schedule

8:30-9:00	Continental Breakfast for Program Participants & Team
9:00-10:00	Closed Session for Program Participants & Team
10:00-10:15	Welcome & Introduction Durba Ghosh, History, Cornell University
10:15-11:45	Panel 1: Frameworks Chair: Becky Givan, Collective Bargaining, Cornell University "Conflict, Controversy, and Collective Action in the Collegiate Curriculum," Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Sociology, Hamilton College "Strategic Scholars and Policy Outcomes: Causal Knowledge in Language of Education Policy Debates," Ericka A. Albaugh, Political Science, Duke University Discussant: Dennis Gilbert, Sociology, Hamilton College
12:00-1:00	Lunch (Please RSVP to socialsciences@cornell.edu if you will be joining us for lunch.)
1:00-2:30	Panel 2: Controversial Histories Chair: Meg Wesling, Society for the Humanities, Cornell "Creating Modern Citizens and Workers: The Struggle to Define the Curriculum of the 'New Education,'" Tracy Steffes, Education, Brown University "The Impact of Historiographical Preferences in Textbook Controversies in Postwar Japan and Germany," Julian Dierkes, Sociology, University of British Columbia Discussant: Katsuya Hirano, History, Cornell University
2:30-3:00	Coffee Break
3:00-4:30	Panel 3: Teaching Science Chair: Steve Hilgartner, Science & Technology Studies, Cornell "Biology Textbooks and the Early Antievolution Movement," Adam Shapiro, History, University of Columbia "The Coverage of Human Evolution in the High School Biology Textbooks of the 20th Century," Gerald Skoog, Education, Texas Tech University Discussant: Barbara Crawford, Education, Cornell University
4:30-5:00	Closing Remarks & Wrap-Up Ken Roberts, Governent, Cornell University
6:45	Program participants meet their ride or walking guide in Statler Hotel lobby to go to the dinner location.
7:00	Dinner for Program Participants & Team at Durba Ghosh's Home

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