March 18 th -21 st, 2005

Crowne Plaza Union Square

San Francisco , California

Preliminary Program

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday

President

Robert Floden

Michigan State University

President Elect

Sharon Bailin

Simon Fraser University

Immediate Past President

Francis Schrag

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Executive Secretary

Kathy Hytten

Southern Illinois University

Executive Board Members

Kal Alston (2005), University of Illinois

James Giarelli (2006), Rutgers University

Program Committee

Ken Howe, Chair, University of Colorado

Deron Boyles , Georgia State University

Eric Bredo, University of Virginia

Pamela Courtenay-Hall, Prince Edward Island University

Scott Fletcher, University of New Hampshire

Frank Margonis, University of Utah

Michele Moses, Arizona State University

John Petrovic, University of Alabama

Steve Norris, University of Alberta

Suzanne Rice, University of Kansas

Stacy Smith, Bates College

Arrangements and Hospitality Committee

Eamonn Callan, Chair, Stanford University

Michael Katz, San Jose State University

Denis & Valerie Phillips, Stanford University

Election Committee

Barbara Stengel, Chair, Millersville University

Gert Biesta, University of Exeter

Deanne Bogdan, OISE/University of Toronto

David Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia

Natasha Levinson, Kent State University

Al Neiman, Notre Dame University

Suzanne Rice, University of Kansas

Commission on Professional Affairs

Barbara Applebaum (2005), Chair, Syracuse University

Suzanne Rice (2006), University of Kansas

Deborah Kerdeman (2007), University of Washington

Cris Mayo (2008), University of Illinois

Natasha Levinson (2009), Kent State University

Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession

Naoko Saito (2005), Kyoto University

Suzanne Rosenblith (2006), Clemson University

Natasha Levinson (2006), Kent State University

Megan Boler (2007), OISE/University of Toronto

Barbara Thayer-Bacon (2007), University of Tennessee

Membership Committee

Randall Curren (2006), Chair, University of Rochester

Chris Higgins (2005), Teachers College, Columbia

Michael Katz (2006), San Jose State University

Emily Robertson (2006), Syracuse University

Daniel Vokey (2007), University of British Columbia

Jobs for Philosophers of Education

Stanton Wortham (2005), Chair, University of Pennsylvania

Rosalie Romano (2005), Ohio University

Susan Birden (2005), Buffalo State College

Scott Fletcher (2006), University of New Hampshire

Walter Okshevsky (2006), Memorial University of Newfoundland

Heather Voke (2006), Georgetown University

Representatives to CSFE

Suzanne Rice (2005), University of Kansas

Managing Editor of the Yearbook

Diana Dummitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Business Manager of Educational Theory

Diane Beckett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Resolutions Committee

TBA

Book Display Coordinator

Eamonn Callan, Stanford University

Web Builder

Craig Cunningham, National Louis University

Sponsors of the 61st Annual Meeting

California Association for Philosophy of Education

Stanford University

Annual Meeting Agenda

Registration

Friday, March 26 th       8am-12pm

                                    2pm-5pm

Saturday, March 27 th    8am-12pm

Book Display

Friday, Saturday, Sunday        9am-3:30pm

Thursday, March 17 th

6:00-9:00 PM Executive Board Meeting

Friday, March 18 th

9:00-10:15 AM First Concurrent Session

A. Multicultural Education, Peace, and Democracy

Speaker: Sigal Ben-Porath ( University of Pennsylvania)

Respondent: Tim McDonough ( University of Illinois)

Chair:   Osvil Acosta-Morales ( University of Miami)

Speaker: Sarah McGough ( University of Illinois)

Respondent: John Petrovic ( University of Alabama)

Chair:   Jim Marshall ( University of Auckland)

C. A Pragmatist Conception of Creative Listening to Emotional Expressions in Dialogues across Differences

Speaker: Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech)

Respondent: Rene Arcilla ( New York University )

Chair: Craig Cunningham ( National Louis University )

10:30-11:45 AM Second Concurrent Session

A. Teaching Professional Ethics for Educators: Assessing the “Multiple Ethical Languages” Approach           

Speaker: Daniel Vokey ( University of British Columbia)

Respondent: John Covaleskie (Northern Michigan University)

Chair: Clifton Tanabe ( University of Wisconsin – La Crosse)

Speaker: Alexander Sidorkin ( Bowling Green State University)

Respondent: Frank Margonis ( University of Utah)

Chair: Lisa Satanovsky ( Washington University)

Speaker: Barbara Applebaum ( Syracuse University)

Respondent: Kathy Hytten (Southern Illinois University)

Chair: Anne Marie Bowery ( Baylor University)

12:15-1:30 PM First Alternative Session

Presenters:

Jon M. Fennell (unaffiliated), Foster Murray’s Philosophy of Public Education

Naoko Saito ( Kyoto University), Teaching, Leaving and Bequeathing: From Dewey’s

Common School to Cavell’s Uncommon School

Chair/Discussant: James Giarelli ( Rutgers University)

B. Panel—Listening and Education; Listening to Music (off site venue: 547 Mission St .   People should arrive by 12:00 noon, if possible, and Sherman Clay staff will conduct you to the performance space.)

Panelists: Leonard Waks ( Temple University)

Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern University)

Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech)

Suzanne Rice ( University of Kansas)

Kathy Schultz ( University of Pennsylvania)

C. Book Session – Debate and Discussion : Contributors to Denise Egea-Kuehne, ed., Levinas and Education: At the Intersection of Faith and Reason

Authors: Denise Egea-Kuehne ( Louisiana State University)

Gert J. J. Biesta ( University of Exeter)

Ann Chinnery ( University of Saskatchewan)

Julian M. Edgoose ( University of Puget Sound)

Claudia Eppert ( Louisiana State University)

Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech)

Zelia Gregoriou ( University of Cyprus)

Clarence Joldersma ( Calvin College)

Sharon Todd (Stockholm Institute of Education)

1:45-3:00 PM First General Session

Speaker: Nakia S. Pope ( University of Virginia)

Respondent: Catherine Z. Elgin ( Harvard University)

Chair: Harvey Siegel ( University of Miami)

3:15-4:45 PM Invited Lecture

Speaker: Alison Jaggar ( University of Colorado – Boulder)

Respondent: Cris Mayo ( University of Illinois)

Chair: Sharon Bailin ( Simon Fraser University)

5:00-6:30 PM New Members Reception

8:15-10:15 PM COSW Topical Symposium

An exploration of how various modes of feminist inquiry have contributed to new ways of doing contemporary philosophy and the philosophy of education.

Presenters:

Maureen Ford (OISE/University of Toronto), Using Situated Knowledges to Overcome Epistemological Barriers to Knowing Oppression

Linda O'Neill (Northern Illinois University), Embodied Hermeneutics:   Gadamer Meets Woolf in a Room of One's Own

Shaireen Rasheed ( Long Island University), Sexualized Spaces in Public Places:   Irigary, Levinas and an Ethics of the Erotic

Huey-li Li ( University of Akron), From Feminism to Ecofeminist:   Woman, Nature, and Education

Saturday, March 19 th

9:00-10:15 AM Third Concurrent Session

Speaker: Charles Howell ( Minnesota State, Moorhead)

Respondent: Scott Fletcher ( University of New Hampshire)

Chair: D. Bob Gowin ( Cornell University)

Speaker: James Stillwaggon (Teachers College, Columbia)

Respondent: Susan Laird ( University of Oklahoma)

Chair: David Waddington ( Stanford University)

Speaker: Frederic S. Ellett ( University of Western Ontario) & David P. Ericson ( University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Respondent: Denis Phillips ( Stanford University)

Chair: Katariina Holma ( University of Helsinki)

D. Cold Case: Reopening the File on Tolerance in Teaching and Learning across Difference

Speaker: Ann Chinnery ( University of Saskatchewan)

Respondent: Suzanne Rice ( University of Kansas)

Chair: Haeryun Choi ( Long Island University)

10:30-11:45 AM Fourth Concurrent Session

A. Deconstructing the Experience of the Local: Towards a Radical Pedagogy of Place

Speaker: Claudia W. Ruitenberg ( Simon Fraser University)

Respondent: Maureen Ford (OISE/University of Toronto)

Chair: Sahar Zohouri (OISE/University of Toronto)

Speaker: Chris Hanks ( University of Indiana)

Respondent: David P. Ericson ( University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Chair: Liza Finkel ( University of New Hampshire)

C. Pedagogical Responsibility and the Third: Levinasian Considerations for Social Justice Pedagogies

Speaker: Matt Jackson ( University of Utah)

Respondent: Kevin Gary ( Loyola University)

Chair: Michael Katz ( San Jose State University)

Speaker: M. Victoria Costa ( California State University, Long Beach)

Respondent: Eamonn Callan ( Stanford University)

Chair: Brian Burtt ( University of Pittsburgh)

12:15-1:30 PM Second Alternative Session

A. Book Session – Authors Meet Critics : Leveling the Playing Field: Justice Politics and College Admissions, by Robert Fullinwinder and Judith Lichtenberg.

Chair: Randall Curren ( University of Rochester)

Speakers: Harry Brighouse ( University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Emily Robertson ( Syracuse University)

Kenneth Strike ( Syracuse University)

Respondents: Robert Fullinwinder ( University of Maryland)

Judith Lichtenberg ( University of Maryland)

B.   A Conversation – Dewey, Women and Weirdos: An Invitation to Collaboration

Presenters: Craig Cunningham ( National Louis University)

David Granger (SUNY Geneseo)

Barbara Stengel ( Millersville University)

Terri Wilson (Teachers College)

Jane Morse (SUNY Geneseo)

C. Topical Symposium – Race, Hermeneutics, and Communication

Presenters:

Kal Alston and Cris Mayo ( University of Illinois), The Vexed Trappings of Identity

Nisha Gupta ( Syracuse University), Forgetting, Selective Amnesia and the Inability to Understand Structural Racism

Dini Metro-Roland ( Indiana University), Hip Hop Hermeneutics: Cross-cultural Experience through the Lens of Philosophical Hermeneutics

Chair/Discussant: Kathryn Morgan (University of Toronto)

2:00-3:15 PM George Kneller Lecture

Moral Reasoning, Moral Pluralism, and the Classroom

Speaker: Martin Benjamin ( Michigan State University)

Chair: Robert E. Floden ( Michigan State University)

Martin Benjamin is emeritus professor of philosophy at Michigan State University where he was also affiliated with the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences.   The recipient of four teaching awards, he taught a graduate seminar on teaching for the Philosophy Department and still conducts a biennial intensive summer seminar on teaching for graduate students throughout the United States sponsored by the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers.   He is coauthor (with Joy Curtis) of Ethics in Nursing, 3d ed. (Oxford University Press, 1992), co-editor (with William B. Weil, M.D.) of Ethical Issues at the Outset of Life (Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987); he is author of Splitting the Difference: Compromise and Integrity in Ethics and Politics (University Press of Kansas, 1990) and Philosophy & This Actual World: An Introduction to Practical Philosophical Inquiry (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) as well as articles and reviews in such journals as Teaching Philosophy, Ethics, Hastings Center Report, Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Liver Transplantation and Surgery.  He has been a member of the APA Committee on Teaching and is a member of the Editorial Board of Teaching Philosophy.   In July he begins a three-year term as chair of the APA’s Committee for the Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers.

3:15-3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30-4:45 PM Kneller Response and Discussion

Respondents: Ann Diller ( University of New Hampshire)

Kenneth A. Strike ( Syracuse University)

5:00-6:15 PM Kneller Reception

6:45-8:00 PM COPA – P anel discussion on the state of philosophy of

Education in North America

Chair: Barbara Applebaum ( Syracuse University)

Panelists: Nicholas Burbules ( University of Illinois)

Ronald Glass ( Arizona State University – West)

Stacy Smith ( Bates College)

Eduardo Duarte ( Hofstra University)

Sunday, March 20th

9:00-10:15 AM Fifth Concurrent Session

Speaker: Josh Corngold ( Stanford University)

Respondent: Liz Jackson ( University of Illinois)

Chair: Randall Curren ( University of Rochester)

B. Poetically Dwelling with the Veil: The Intellectual, Moral, and Aesthetic Dimensions of W.E.B. DuBois’ Educational Philosophy

Speaker: Rodino F. Anderson (Teachers College, Columbia)

Respondent: Stephen Haymes ( DePaul University)

Chair: Tamara Pravica (OISE/University of Toronto)

C. Postcolonial Pragmatism? Ethno-Religious Conflict and Education in Postcolonial Spaces

Speaker: Jeffrey Ayala Milligan ( Florida State University)

Respondent: Michael Merry ( University of Wisconsin)

Chair: Ruyu Hung ( National Chiayi University )

Speaker: Jeff Stickney (OISE/University of Toronto)

Respondent: Nicholas Burbules ( University of Illinois)

Chair: John Ambrosio ( University of Washington)

10:30-12:00 PM Presidential Address

When is Philosophy of Education?

Speaker: Robert E. Floden ( Michigan State University)

Respondents: Gary Fenstermacher ( University of Michigan)

David Hansen (Teachers College, Columbia)

Chair: Kenneth Howe ( University of Colorado – Boulder)

12:15-1:45 PM President’s Luncheon

2:00-3:15 PM Sixth Concurrent Session

A. Education for Deliberative Character: The Problem of Persistent Disagreement and Religious Individuals

Speaker: Anne Newman ( Stanford University)

Respondent: Michele Moses ( Arizona State University)

Chair: Sam Foster ( University of Colorado – Boulder)

Speaker: Shelby L. Sheppard ( Western Washington University)

Respondent: Kurt Stemhagen ( University of Mary Washington )

Chair: Jim Lang (OISE/University of Toronto)

Speaker: Paul Smeyers (KU Leuven) & Nicholas C. Burbules ( University of Illinois)

Respondent: Gert Biesta ( University of Exeter)

Chair: Zelia Gregoriou ( University of Cyprus)

3:45-5:00 PM Second General Session

Speaker: Audrey Thompson ( University of Utah)

Respondent: Kathleen Knight Abowitz ( Miami University)

Chair: Lynda Stone ( University of North Carolina)

5:15-6:30 PM General Business Meeting

8:00-9:30 PM Third Alternative Session

A. A Conversation – Jobs for Philosophers: Advice from the Field on Finding Work in the Profession (graduate students especially welcome)

Organizers: P.J. Giampietro ( University of New Hampshire)

Participants: Eamonn Callan ( Stanford University)

Denis Phillips ( Stanford University)

Heather Voke ( Georgetown University)

B. (Philosophical Education as) Learning to Die

Participants:   Al Neiman (Notre Dame)

Respondents:   Rene Arcilla ( New York University)

Susan Laird ( University of Oklahoma)

Barbara Stengel ( Millersville University)

Monday, March 21st

7:30-8:45 AM Executive Board Meeting

9:00-10:15 PM Seventh Concurrent Session

Speaker: Terri S. Wilson (Teachers College, Columbia)

Respondent: Deron Boyles ( Georgia State University)

Chair: Abeer Shubassi (OISE/University of Toronto)

Speaker: Haithe Anderson ( Bowling Green State University)

Respondent: Emery Hyslop-Margison ( Ball State University)

Chair: Clive Beck (OISE/University of Toronto)

Speaker: Jennifer Logue ( University of Illinois)

Respondent: Jennifer Ng ( University of Kansas)

Chair: Karen Sihra (OISE/University of Toronto)

Educating for More (and Less) Than Intelligent Belief or Unbelief: A Critique of Noddings’ Vision of Religion in Public Schools

Speaker: Robert Kunzman ( Indiana University)

Respondent: Nel Noddings ( Stanford University)

Chair: Barbara Houston ( University of New Hampshire)