NAME Conference: Beyond celebrating diversity

US-based National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will hold its 18th annual conference Nov 12-16/08 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference theme is Beyond Celebrating Diversity: reActivating the Equity and Social Justice Roots of Multicultural Education.
Conference strands:

• Critical discourses in multicultural education, social justice and equity
• The roots of multicultural education
• Empowering students of color, English language learners, and low-income students
• Community-based initiatives for educational equity and social justice
• Multicultural education in a digital age.

See the NAME site for details, including the call for proposals, rubric proposal and information on last year’s conference.
Proposals due March 31, 2008.