FOA-Conference
Grants on Racial Equity in Education Research; May 6,
2021
Agency
Spencer
Foundation
Description:
The
Spencer Foundation welcomes applications for its Conference Grant Program. The
program provides support to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers
interested in developing small research conferences or focused symposia budgets
of up to $50,000) that explore critical issues in racial equity in education
research. To that end, the program seeks proposals with the potential to bring
together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, or other important
collaborators whose expertise, substantive knowledge and practice, theoretical
insight, and/or methodological expertise can be engaged in ways that help build
on and advance racial equity in education research, practice, or
policy.
Proposals
are welcomed that aim to grow the current scope of research on racial equity,
develop new knowledge through interdisciplinary scholarly engagement, or as a
way to collaborate to increase the impact of educational research. Applicants
are encouraged to carefully and innovatively think about the format and
pedagogy of their proposed conference or convenings. The program is not restricted to traditional
formats, so, for example, applicants might consider a series of smaller convenings that are in-person or online, or some
combination of both.
While
the field of education has focused on issues of inequality and its growth in
the United States, there is a pressing need, given the current intersection of
the COVID-19 public health crisis, rapid shifts in educational systems,
economic challenges and growing civil resistance to systemic anti-blackness,
for robust approaches to scholarship that can consequentially contribute to
achieving racial equity. To that end, the foundation encourages a wide range of
approaches designed to creatively and ambitiously engage in approaches to
advancing racial equity and is especially interested in proposals that include
a focus on methodological needs and advancements.
The
program is limited to conference/symposia budgets of no more than
$50,000.
Closing
Date:
May
6, 2021
Link
to Full Announcement:
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/conference-grants
Contact
Information:
Judy
Klippenstein