The Area of Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture is now accepting submissions for the PCA/ACA National Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, held March 31 - April 3, 2010. The Conference will be held at the Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis, (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/stldt-renaissance-st-louis-grand-and-suites-hotel )with additional space reserved at the America's Center, 701 Convention Plaza--across the street.

Submissions that explore, connect, contrast, or otherwise address area themes of schooling and education, teaching throughout history, and their linkages to popular culture from all periods are desired from librarians, archivists, scholars, educators, and students at all levels. Sample topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
- Reflections/linkages between schooling and popular culture in the United States;
- The role of history in education, teaching, or preservice teacher education in the United States;
- The use(s) of popular culture in education, teaching, or preservice teacher education in the United States;
- How education has impacted pop culture/how popular culture has impacted education in the United States;
- Representations of schooling throughout popular culture’s history in the United States;
- Cross-border/multinational examinations of popular culture and education;
- Multidisciplinary analyses of the interactions of schooling and popular culture.

To be considered, interested individuals should please send an abstract of no more than 250 words (electronically preferred) e-mailed/postmarked by December 15, 2009