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*AERA: Arts Based Educational Research Special Interest Group*

*Outstanding Dissertation Award*

The Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group for the
American Educational Research Association (AERA) would like to announce its
sponsorship of the *ABER Outstanding Dissertation Award* for the best
Doctoral Dissertation that explores, is an exemplar of, and pushes the
boundaries of arts-based educational research. The award is intended for
students who have graduated in the year preceding the award. A maximum of
one award per year is available.

The winner will receive an "Outstanding Dissertation" award at the ABER
business meeting at the 2011 AERA annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana,
April 8 – 12, 2011. The winner will also be invited to present highlights
from her or his dissertation at this meeting. In addition, the winner will
be invited to submit a paper highlighting his/her work to the *International
Journal of Education and the Arts *http://ijea.asu.edu/.

The ABER SIG will support the winner's conference fee and provide $500.00 to
assist with travel to AERA to present at the conference.

*Application deadline: Monday, January 31, 2011. Must have graduated in
2010.*

*Submission requirements:*

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1. A cover letter with:

        - Applicant’s name and contact information.

        - Information about the school, program, and committee and
supervisor's names (and

          examiners where applicable) under which the dissertation was
completed.

        - Dissertation title

        - Defense date and Graduation date

2. A copy of the signed committee acceptance of the dissertation and/ or a
letter from the supervisor stating the completion of the degree and date of
defense.

3. A short essay of *no more than 3000 words*, excluding references and
abstract,

outlining the title, intents, theoretical framework, methodology and
findings of the study, and the significance of the research for arts based
educational research. A 100 – 150 word abstract should be included in the
same file. The essay should be ready for blind review with no mention of the
author’s name or institutional affiliation.

4. A current copy of the applicant’s curriculum vitae.

*How to submit:*

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*For the first round of the award review process, all materials will be sent
via email attachments. Please follow the criteria below.*

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The essay should be typed, double-spaced (including quotations, footnotes,
and references) in APA style, with ample margins, and should comply with the
specified length limitations. The author's name and affiliation should
appear on the cover letter, and only on this document, to ensure anonymity
in the reviewing process. An abstract of 100-150 words should be included in
the same file as the 3000 word essay, on a separate page.

In the email subject window please write *[YOUR LAST NAME] ABER Award 2011*.

All attached files should follow this format with the addition of a number
assigned according to the list above: LAST NAME ABER Award 2011[1], LAST
NAME ABER Award 2011[2], etc. for numbers 1 through 4 as outlined above.

If your submission is successful in advancing to the finalist round, you
will also be asked to upload your entire dissertation in PDF format to a
secure website. Additional information will be provided upon receipt of
items 1 - 4.

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*Send all materials electronically via email attachments to co-coordinators:
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Dr. Ruth Leitch                                                          Dr.
Monica Prendergast

Co-Coordinator ABER Dissertation Award          Co-Coordinator ABER
Dissertation Award

Senior Lecturer
 Assistant
Professor (Adjunct)**

School of Education                                                Department
of Theatre

Queen's University Belfast                                      University
of Victoria

Belfast, Ireland
   Victoria,
British Columbia

EMAIL: aber.aw...@gmail.com

ABER WEBSITE: http://www.aber-sig.org

SELECTED PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE ABER Outstanding Dissertation Award
(PhD/Present Affiliation):

2010 Dr. Yolanda Nieves (National-Louis University)

*The Brown Girls’ Chronicles: Puerto Rican Women and Resilience*

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2009 Dr. Barbara Bickel (University of British Columbia/Southern Illinois
University)

*Living the Divine Spiritually and Politically: Art, Ritual and
Performative/Pedagogy in Women’s Multi-faith Leadership*

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2008 Dr. Kathleen Vaughan (York University/Concordia University)

*Finding Home: Knowledge, Collage, and the Local Environments***

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2007 Dr. Pauline Sameshima (University of British Columbia/Washington State
University)

*Seeing Red: A Pedagogy of Parallax **(An Epistolary Bildungsroman on Artful
Scholastic Inquiry)*

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2006 Dr. Christina Marin (Arizona State University/New York University)

*Breaking Down Barriers, Building Dreams: Using Theatre For Social Change to
Explore the Concept of Identity with **Latina** Adolescents***

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