PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
Call for Papers
68th Annual Meeting 2012
PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY
Call for Papers
68th Annual Meeting 2012
The 68th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) will be held from Thursday, March 22 until Monday, March 26, 2012 at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Program Committee invites papers to be submitted for presentation at the Annual Meeting and for subsequent publication in the PES Yearbook, Philosophy of Education 2012. The Committee also invites two other types of proposals: (1) Proposals for alternative sessions; (2) Proposals for work-in-progress that bring participants together to collaborate on developing ideas that are not yet ready for the regular paper submission process.
The Program Committee will review only submissions made in accordance with the instructions below. With the exception of the Presidential Address, the Kneller Lecture, and other specially designated invited talks, only those papers reviewed and accepted by the Program Committee, and invited responses to them, will be published in Philosophy of Education 2012 (now online only).
DEADLINE: Papers and proposals must be submitted electronically to pes2012submissions@gmail.com no later than November 1, 2011. Submission instructions appear below.
SUBMISSION FORMATS
PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Papers may not exceed 4,500 words, including footnotes, and must be written in proper PES form (see the Style Guide). The 4,500-word limit will be strictly enforced. Papers that modestly exceed the 4500-word limit will be subject to editing. Papers that exceed this limit excessively will be subject to rejection without review or to not being published in the PES Yearbook.
Multiple reviewers will review papers blindly. Final decisions on manuscripts rest with the Program Chair. Criteria for review include quality of argument, links to philosophical and philosophy of education literature and to educational practice, quality of expression, and importance of the contribution. Please make sure that references to your name, institutional affiliation, or work (e.g., “As I have argued on many occasions…”) are omitted from the paper, including the notes. Your identifying information will not be available to reviewers.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: Proposals may not exceed 1,000 words, including references. If the session being proposed involves multiple presenters, please specify the contribution of each presenter. Alternative session proposals take two general forms:
• ALTERNATIVE SESSIONS may be scheduled concurrently with paper sessions or in separate time slots. Examples include roundtables, poster dialogues, authors’ talks, performances, consultations, interviews, and conversations on issues. Criteria for review include originality and clarity of motivating question or idea, potential interaction with session attendees, and relevance/importance to educational philosophy and educational practice.
• WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSIONS group scholars with work-in-progress in an informal collaborative setting. Proposals should detail the question or claim being investigated, relevant sources/resources, likely direction, and mode(s) of analysis. Criteria for review include originality and clarity of question/claim, suitability of sources/resources, suitability of mode(s) of analysis, potential for contribution to educational philosophy and educational practice.
PES 2012 THEME: EDUCATION, THE ARTS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
The Philosophy of Education Society and the journal Educational Theory have established a joint venture to identify a theme for each year’s conference. While submitted papers need not address the theme, accepted papers that do address the theme will be noted on the program as such and will be considered for separate publication in a special issue of the journal.
The purpose of this venture is to provide a high-visibility forum for philosophers of education to speak to important current issues of policy and practice in education. We believe it will be beneficial to PES, and to the field of philosophy of education more widely, to have a higher profile in this regard. The journal version will reach an even broader, and international, audience.
Next year’s theme is: "Education, the Arts, and Social Change." This theme speaks to the location of next year’s conference in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, but is relevant also to policy initiatives around the world. For example, in some places the arts are supported as drivers of urban development and gentrification; in others, funding for the arts is cut because of charges of elitism and limited social relevance. The theme could be addressed, for example, by looking at the role of aesthetic education in social change today, either generally or in relation to particular works of art; the intrinsic versus instrumental value of the arts in education; the role of artists and writers as social critics, and/or the concern that this role is limited today because artistic works are absorbed by systems of economic exchange; controversies about the use of literary and other artistic works in schools; and many other topics.
Authors submitting papers to the PES program are not required to write on the theme, and only a subset of papers in the overall program will be thematically driven. All papers will go through the normal review process. Papers not found acceptable on grounds of quality will not be accepted simply because they address the theme. Papers not addressing the theme will not be penalized for that reason.
Following the conference, and in light of the response pieces at the event, the Program Chair will invite some or all of the authors who have written on the theme to revise and expand their papers, up to a limit of about 6,000 words, within two months of the conference. Authors are not allowed to make these sorts of revisions for the version appearing in the PES Yearbook, so the revised versions will be substantially different. It is even possible that a response paper might be deemed by the Program Chair to be of sufficient quality and distinctness to justify its being expanded to a full-length essay on its own and submitted as part of the collection. In the revision process, authors may also be asked to locate their argument more clearly in the context of educational and cultural policy, or indicate what policy implications the argument may have.
Two months after the conference, this set of revised papers will then be submitted as a collection to Educational Theory for review and consideration as part of a special themed issue. The papers will go through the normal journal review process, and may be subject to requests for further revision following that process. They will be refereed publications, as are all Educational Theory articles. Decisions on the final acceptance of papers will be made jointly by the Program Chair, serving as Guest Editor of the special issue, and the journal Editor, but in cases of disagreement the final decision will rest with the journal Editor.
Given the review process and production timeline, this special issue will normally appear early in the year following the conference.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Submit papers or proposals as a Word attachment to pes2012submissions@gmail.com by November 1, 2011.
In the body of your e-mail, please provide the following contact information:
Name
Institutional Affiliation
Email address
Phone number
Mailing address
Submissions will be accepted beginning September 15, 2011. An e-mail confirmation that your submission has been received will be sent within two business days.
Note: If you do not receive an email confirmation within two business days of your submission, please contact Claudia Ruitenberg: claudia.ruitenberg@ubc.ca.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AS A RESPONDENT OR CHAIR
Members of PES who are interested in serving as session chairs or respondents are invited to contact the Program Chair, Claudia Ruitenberg, at claudia.ruitenberg@ubc.ca. Please specify your areas of expertise and provide your full contact information (mailing address, email address, and phone number).
For questions concerning the 2011 program, please contact Claudia Ruitenberg at claudia.ruitenberg@ubc.ca
CONTACT: PES Executive Director Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
850-644-8171; milligan@coe.fsu.edu