Previous AAACS Conferences
 
 
2005
 
  The 2005 AAACS conference was held at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on April 8-11.  
  2004  
  The 2004 AAACS conference was held at the University of San Diego in California, on April 9 -13.  
  2003  
  The 2003 AAACs conference was held at National-Louis University , the Chicago Campus on 122 S. Michigan Ave. Conference Directors were Professor Patrick Roberts and Professor Todd Price, both of National Louis Univeersity. East China Normal University's Professor Zhang Hua gave the Presidential Address entitled "China and the Future of Curriculum Studies." AAACS President Janet L. Miller presided.  
  2002  
  The American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS) hosted the First Annual Meeting at Loyola University in New Orleans, LA. Thank you to all the participants who attended and interacted with the presentations. What fabulous discussions occurred. And an enormous thanks to Al Alcazar for hosting and coordinating the event. Janet Miller, as President of AAACS, began the conference with a provocative presendential address. Saturday and Sunday provided wonderful sessions in which the presenters brought forth critical issues in insightul ways. Monday concluded with small group discussions that generated good ideas about the future of AAACS and the field of Curriculum Studies.  
  2001  
  The International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies ( http://www.iaacs.org ) now maintains a web page. The stated mission of the organization is to support a worldwide - but not uniform - field of curriculum studies. At this historical moment and for the foreseeable future, curriculum inquiry occurs within national borders, often informed by governmental policies and priorities, responsive to national situations. Curriculum study is, therefore, nationally distinctive. The founders of the IAACS do not dream of a worldwide field of curriculum studies mirroring the standardization and uniformity the larger phenomenon of globalization threatens. Nor are we unaware of the dangers of narrow nationalisms. Our hope, in establishing this organization, is to provide support for scholarly conversations within and across national and regional borders about the content, context, and process of education, the organizational and intellectual center of which is the curriculum.  
  2000  
 

LSU's Curriculum Theory Project hosted a major international conference on the LSU campus after the 2000 American Educational Research Association (AERA) meeting in New Orleans, preceded in 1999 by a smaller conference (held just before the Philosophy of Education Society meeting, also in New Orleans).

Our intention has been to contribute to the acceleration and institutionalization of the internationalization of curriculum studies. The call for papers was led by the notion that individual and collaborative curriculum scholarship already underway in the various parts of the world, could be shared in a setting of international dialogue.

Additionally, we invited papers which explore the idea of internationalization as a problem in curriculum theory. At the 2000 meeting we explored the formation of an International Association for Curriculum Studies, to institutionalize this project of internationalization. In addition to a scholarly journal, the International Association for Curriculum Studies (IACS) might sponsor international meetings every 3 to 5 years, with national chapters meeting more regularly perhaps. Both 1999 and 2000 Conference papers may be, at presenters' request, submitted for consideration in the first Handbook of International Research in Curriculum, edited by William F. Pinar, possibly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA).

 
 
Other Conferences
 
 

The Second World Curriculum Studies Conference ( Tampere , Finland , 2006)
The second IAACS conference, sponsored by the University of Tampere , again drew curriculum scholars worldwide, especially those from Europe and Scandinavia with increased attendance from Africa . Over 300 curricularists from 33 countries attended and shared their perspectives on curriculum reform issues. Professors Doll (Fulbright grant) and Pinar have played important roles in helping Finnish universities (post)-modernize their teacher education programs.

The Third Complexity and Education conference (2005)
LSU hosted the third Complexity and Education conference in November of 2005. This conference focuses on the role the “new sciences” of complexity and chaos, can and do play in the development of a new vision for teacher education. Support for this conference came from both the Curriculum Theory Project and the College of Education . An outgrowth of this conference (held in Robert , Louisiana ) is the re-initiation of Curriculum Camp, a regional meeting for graduate students at southern universities to present their work to themselves and their professors.

The First World Curriculum Studies Conference ( Shanghai , China , 2003)
This first IAACS conference, sponsored by East China Normal University , drew curriculum scholars from around the world, as well as officials from the Chinese Ministry of Education. Over 250 curricularists from 24 countries attended and shared their perspectives on national, regional, and international curriculum issues.

2001 Conference: In Praise of the Postmodern Conference (In Honor of William E. Doll, Jr.)

2000 Conference: Internalization of Curriculum Studies

1999 Conference: Philosophy of Education and Internalization of Curriculum Studies

  
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