PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
2004 Annual
Meeting
Program
Saturday, March 27
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Saturday March 27 th
9:00-10:15 AM Third Concurrent Session
A. Proletariat Labor or Praxis? Philosophy of Education in A Neo-Liberal Order
Speaker: Emery Hyslop-Margison ( Ball State University )
Respondent: Shirley Pendlebury ( University of Witwatersrand
Chair: Trevor Norris (OISE/University of Toronto )
B. The Disciplined Schooling of the Free Spirit: Educational Theory in Nietzsche's Middle Period
Speaker: Avi Mintz (Teachers College, Columbia )
Respondent: Leslie Sassone (Northern Illinois University )
Chair: Bruce Novak ( University of Chicago )
C. On the Epistemic Grounds of Moral Discourse and Moral Education: An Examination of Jurgen Habermas' 'Discourse Ethics'
Speaker: Walter Okshevsky ( Memorial University of Newfoundland )
Respondent: Wendy Kohli ( Fairfield University )
Chair: Benjamin Endres (SUNY New Paltz)
D. Can Democracy Work if it Relies on People Like Us
Speaker: John Covaleski (Northern Michigan University )
Respondent: Tim Simpson ( Morehead State University )
Chair: Kal Alston ( University of Illinois )
10:30-11:45 AM Fourth Concurrent Session
A. Reconciling Feminist and Socio-political Grounds of Classroom Authority
Speaker: Randall Curren ( University of Rochester )
Respondent: Nicholas Burbules ( University of Illinois )
Chair: Barbara Applebaum ( Syracuse University )
B. Theorizing Courage as Requisite for Moral Education
Speaker: Justen Infinto ( Ball State University )
Respondent: Kevin Gary ( Loyola University of Chicago )
Chair: James Stillwaggon (Teachers College, Columbia )
C. What can be Rescued from the Positivist Bathwater?
Speaker: Michael Matthews ( University of New South Wales )
Respondent: Gary Rubinstein ( University of Toronto )
Chair: Denis Philips ( Stanford University )
D. The Pluralist Predicament
Speaker: Suzanne Rosenblith ( Clemson University )
Respondent: Jeffrey Milligan ( Florida State University )
Chair: Jennifer Logue (OISE/University of Toronto )
12:15-1:30 PM Second Alternative Sessions
A. Topical Symposium-Community and the Stranger
Presenters:
Dianne Gereluk ( University of Surrey Roehampton), Proceed With Caution: Communities and Schooling
Michael Merry ( University of Wisconsin ), Is Cultural Coherence a 'psychological precursor' to well being?
Eric Sheffield ( Southwest Missouri State University ), Service in Service-Learning Education: the Need f or Philosophical Understanding
Lynda Stone ( University of North Carolina ), 'Don't Talk to Strangers': Education and Ethics for Children and Adults
Discussant: Stacy Smith ( Bates University )
B. Book Session, John B. Bennett - Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics, and Spirituality
Chair: Victor Worsfold (Consultant)
Panelists: Ann Diller ( University of New Hampshire )
Janice Green (Consultant)
Discussant: John B. Bennett ( Quinnipiac University )
C. Debate and Discussion - Contributors to Megan Boler, ed., Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence (Peter Lang, Forthcoming)
Participants:
Megan Boler (OISE/University of Toronto )
Nicholas Burbules ( University of Illinois )
Suzanne deCastell ( Simon Fraser University )
Ingrid M. Erickson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech)
Ronald Glass ( Arizona State University West)
Huey-li Li ( University of Akron )
2:00 - 3:15 PM George Kneller Lecture
The Professoriate and the Truth
Speaker: John Kekes, State University of New York at Albany
Chair: TBA
John Kekes is the author of many books, the most recent of which are Pluralism In Philosophy: Changing the Subject (Cornell 2000), The Art Of Life (Cornell 2002), and The Illusions Of Egalitarianism (Cornell 2003). He has held visiting professorships at the United States Military Academy , the Estonian Academy of Sciences, the National University of Singapore, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Politics in Portugal , the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics in Arizona , and the University of Waterloo in Canada . He is the recipient of an NEH, and several Rockefeller and Earhart Fellowships. He has been editor of Public Affairs Quarterly , consulting editor of History Of Philosophy Quarterly and American Philosophical Quarterly , and he is currently on the editorial board of British Idealistic Studies and Academic Ethics . His most recent book is tentatively entitled The Roots Of Evil . He is Research Professor at the State University of New York at Albany .
George Kneller, a long time member and supporter of the Philosophy of Education Society, passed away in 1999. A prodigious writer on a wide range of topics in the philosophy of education, Kneller left a significant legacy to PES as a scholar and teacher. He also left a substantial endowment to the Society to support a lecture at the annual meeting.
3:15 - 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:45 PM Kneller Response and Discussion
Respondent: TBA
5:00 - 6:15 PM Kneller Reception
8:15 - 9:45 PM Third Alternative Sessions
A. Dimensions of Listening
Presenters: Nicholas Burbules ( University of Illinois )
Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern University)
Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech)
Katherine Schultz ( University of Pennsylvania )
Stanton Wortham ( University of Pennsylvania )
Commentator: Leonard Waks ( Temple University )
B. Special Session - The Research Incubator
Chair: Mark Hicks ( George Mason University )
This session is designed to develop nascent research projects. Participants will work in small groups and each group will be assigned a mentor. If you would like to participate, please email Mark Hicks (mhicks@gmu.edu).
C. Panel Discussion - Agency after Foucault
Panelists: Susan Birden ( Buffalo State University )
Stephanie Foote ( University of Illinois )
Maureen Ford (OISE/University of Toronto )
Michael Horton (OISE/University of Toronto )
Justin Infinito ( Ball State University )
Cris Mayo ( University of Illinois )
Jane Zhang ( Sun Yat Sen University )
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