PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY

56th Annual Meeting Program
March 31 - April 3, 2000
SUNDAY

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Sunday, April 2nd

7:30am-8:45am COSW Breakfast Book Discussion

Jane Roland Martin, Coming of Age in Academe: Rekindling Women's Hopes and Reforming the
Academy
Speakers:                 Megan Boler (Virginia Tech)
                                Karen Maloney (Harvard Educational Review)
                                Barbara Thayer-Bacon (Bowling Green State University)
Location:                  San Francisco Room, 26th floor

9:00am-10:15am Eighth Concurrent Session

A.  Topical Discussion:  Conflicting Philosophies of Education in Israel and Palestine
Speakers:                 Hanan Alexander (University of Haifa)
                                Ilan Gur-Ze'ev (University of Haifa)
Location:                  Shanghai Room, 25th floor

B.  What Does it Mean to Transform Education?
Speaker:                  Estelle R. Jorgensen (Indiana University)
Respondent:             Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern University)
Chair:                       Ann Diller (University of New Hampshire)
Location:                 Tokyo Room, 25th floor

C.  Makings Things Difficult for Learners
Speaker:                  Hunter McEwan (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Respondent:             Robert E. Floden (Michigan State University)
Chair:                       John Azelvandre (New York University)
Location:                  Hong Kong Room, 25th Floor

10:30am-Noon Presidential Address

What a Long Strange Trip It's Been, Or, The Metaphysics of Presence:  Derrida and Dewey on
Human Development
Speaker:                  James Garrison (Virginia Tech)
Respondents:           James Giarelli (Rutgers University)
                                Mary Leach (Ohio State University)
Chair:                       Lynda Stone (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Location:                  Mandarin Ballroom, Lower Level

12:45pm-1:45pm  President's Luncheon
Location:                 Toronto Ballroom, 2nd Floor

2:15pm-3:45pm Distinguished Speaker

The Commercialization of the Classroom
Speaker:                  Virginia Held (City University of New York)
Respondents:            Nicholas C. Burbules (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
                                Barbara Houston (University of New Hampshire)
Chair:                       Randall R. Curren (University of Rochester)
Location:                  Mandarin Ballroom, Lower Level

3:45pm-5:00pm General Session

Levinas and Ethical Agency:  Toward a Reconsideration of Moral Education
Speaker:                  Ann Chinnery (Simon Fraser University)
Respondent:             Gert Biesta (University of Exeter)
Chair:                       Audrey Thompson (University of Utah)
Location:                 Mandarin Ballroom, Lower Level

5:15pm - 6:45pm Business Meeting
Location:                 Mandarin Ballroom, Lower Level

8:00pm-9:45pm Invited Symposium (COPA)

Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research
Speakers:                 Gert Biesta (University of Exeter)
                                Kenneth Howe (University of Colorado)
                                Wendy Kohli (The New School)
                                 Denis Phillips (Stanford University)
Chair:                       Nicholas C. Burbules (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Location:                   Mandarin Ballroom, Lower Level

10:00pm-Midnight     President's Reception
Location:                  San Francisco/Los Angeles Room, 26th Floor

CONTACT: PES Executive Director Jeff Milligan
850-644-8171; milligan@coe.fsu.edu