AERA-borne
Hooray, my revised theory model paper has just been accepted by the “Education in the Professions” division of the American Educational Research Association for their annual conference in Denver this coming spring. This is very nice indeed, as AERA is a much bigger tent than ALISE, for example, so it’s the ideal venue for the “general” model that I’ve been developing, since the practice theories I studied span a fairly broad range of professions (which is why this has taken so long to do, lol!) I suspect that I’m the only LIS researcher who’s presented at AERA in a while, judging from the comments on my methodology, which is a fairly normal one for LIS, but perhaps a bit unusual for the educational research community.
One of the reviewers noted that it was “deeply researched and analyzed.” (Yes, it’s like a second dissertation, foolish me!) This should be a fascinating experience, though: the letter of acceptance indicated that there were 10,000 submissions for the conference. I’m not used to such mind-boggling numbers— even with only 1,000 submissions accepted (which would include the roundtables and posters, I presume), this is going to be huge. No wonder they need the Denver Convention Center!
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