Are you involved in the American Educational Studies Association and have written a book that you could nominate for the Critics Choice Book Award? AESA are now accepting nominations for the award.
"Critics Choice Book Award Selection Committee (CCBASC) announces the call for book nominations to be considered for the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award. Books recipients of the award will be honored at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association in Seattle, WA, and will be displayed in our Book Exhibit room. The CCBASC is eager to identify and bring attention to texts that are of general appeal, interest and significance to the area of Foundations of Education. Through an open nomination process, we hope to produce a broad range of nominated titles across all areas of Foundations of Education, including scholarship that foregrounds historical, philosophical, sociological and/or cultural studies approaches to educational inquiry. We seek to maintain the spirit of the Critics Choice Book Award (outlined in the AESA bylaws) as a noncompetitive way to call attention to outstanding contemporary publications, which may be of interest and professional use to AESA members in their scholarship and teaching.
ONLY AESA MEMBERS ARE ALLOWED TO NOMINATE BOOKS. Books with a publication date of 2010, 2011 or 2012 will be considered for the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award. Self-nomination is allowed. To nominate a text, please include the full citation as well as a brief rationale (no more than 100 words) outlining how the book demonstrates excellence according to the following criteria:
1) relevance to Foundations of Education and the mission of AESA;
2) originality of research;
3) scholarly or intellectual impact on the field;
and/or 4) significance of topic.
Please submit all nominations by May 1, 2012 to Yolanda (Jolie) Medina, chair of the CCBASC, at ymedina@bmcc.cuny.edu."
Good luck to those entering!
Alison Baker
Senior Commissioning Editor