PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
PES UPDATE
FEBRUARY 2000
UPDATE OVERVIEW
This mailing contains information on the 2000 PES Annual Conference, a copy of the conference program accompanied by an Advance Registration Form, a ballot for the Executive Board and COPA, and a dues notice (for those who have not yet paid their 99-00 dues only).
INVITATION FROM THE PRESIDENT -- Jim Garrison
Please join us for the 2000 PES Annual Meeting in Toronto! Margaret Brockett and Dwight Boyd have done a wonderful job in making arrangements while Lynda Stone promises a very strong program. I look forward to seeing you there.
PES 56th ANNUAL CONFERENCE: March 31 - April 3, 2000
Many of you have already made plans to attend the Society’s Annual Conference in Toronto. Those of you who have not yet made your plans but who are enticed by the richness of the enclosed program still have time – but barely!! Deadline for PES-rate room reservations at the Metropolitan Hotel is February 27th. You can make reservations by calling the Hotel at 1-800-668-6600 or by checking at (There is also a link to the Metropolitan site from our own PES Web site.)
The Conference Program reminds us that there will be plenty of socializing to complement our thinking together. Two receptions (Friday at 5:45 PM and Sunday at 10:00 PM) are scheduled, as are two optional meals: the COSW Breakfast (see below under COSW) and the Presidential Luncheon.
The Presidential Luncheon, immediately following Jim Garrison’s provocatively-titled address, will be held Sunday at 12:45 PM. Tickets for the luncheon can be reserved using the enclosed pre-registration form or purchased at the registration table on-site. Cost is $25.00 for regular members and $12.00 for student members.
OISE’s James Cunningham is coordinating the Conference Book Display. Inquiries regarding the Display should be forwarded to James at ejcunningham@oise.utoronto.ca or 416-923-6641, X2510.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Lynda Stone
The 2000 PES Conference Program is hot off the press and enclosed with this Update. A quick look reveals invited talks by Douglas Kellner and Virginia Held, featured presentations by familiar folks, a range of book discussions, nine sets of concurrent sessions (as always including more than one you want to attend at any given hour!), and several sessions with unusual format or focus. If you can’t make it to Toronto, you can surely look forward to the 2000 Yearbook!
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ROOMS NO LONGER AVAILABLE
PES is continuing to offer subsidized rooms for graduate students at this year’s Conference and graduate students are taking advantage of this opportunity! As a result, there is no more available space for reduced rate grad student rooms.
THIRD CALL FOR 1999-2000 DUES
Dues status can now be checked by examining your mailing label. Next to your name is the dues year you are paid through. If your label says “99-00" or later, you are current and will not be receiving a dues notice in this mailing. If your label indicates “98-99" or earlier, a notice and envelope are included. (Note that the PES fiscal and dues year runs from July 1 through June 30.)
BALLOT ENCLOSED
The Nominating Committee, chaired by Sharon Bailin, has selected candidates for the Executive Board and for the Committee on Professional Affairs. Randall Curren and Audrey Thompson are the candidates for the Board; and Barbara Applebaum and Pradeep Dhillon are the candidates for COPA. Please return the attached ballot by March 20, 2000.
GEORGE KNELLER LECTURESHIP
The Society will make a formal announcement of good news at this year’s Conference. The George Kneller Lecture has been generously endowed through our former colleague’s estate, and will become a fixture in future conference programs beginning in 2001. Nick Burbules and Suzanne Rice have begun deliberations to select the inaugural Kneller Lecturer. While those deliberations are confidential, it is clear that they intend to attract a renowned scholar.
2001 CONFERENCE – Steve Tozer, David Hansen
For those who like to plan ahead, the Society is booked at the Congress Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Chicago for March 30th - April 2, 2001. Mark your calendar!
COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN (COSW) - Megan Boler
This year's Committee members are: Megan Boler, Chair, Maureen Ford, Betty Sichel, Cris Mayo, and Stacy Smith. The Committee is planning two Toronto Conference events: a forum to address "Post-identity Politics in the Millennium" and a Sunday Breakfast Book Discussion centered on Jane Roland Martin’s Coming of Age in Academe. (Tickets for the breakfast will be on sale at the conference registration desk.) Anyone who wishes to be involved or to be added to the Women's Caucus listserv should contact Megan Boler at mboler@vt.edu.
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST
- Donald Vandenburg writes of two resources readily available for those pursuing work in the Harry Broudy vein. Professor Vandenburg published both a biographical summary of Broudy’s work and a bibliographic essay in an issue of Journal of Aesthetic Education devoted exclusively to Professor Broudy’s thought. Vandenburg’s “Harry Broudy and Education for a Democratic Society” and his “The Writings of Harry Broudy” can be found in Volume 26 (1992), Number 4 of JAE.
- Announcing a new SIG of the AERA: DISABILITY STUDIES IN EDUCATION
(DSE): Disability studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field of
scholarship that critically examines issues related to the dynamic interplays
between disability and various aspects of culture and society. Disability
Studies unites critical inquiry and political advocacy by utilizing
scholarly approaches from the humanities, humanistic/post‑humanistic
social sciences, and the arts. DSE already has several activities in
effect. We operate a listserv for members. The listserv allows us to
maintain contact with other educational researchers interested in Disability
Studies. We have an organizational meeting scheduled for the 2000 AERA
conference in New Orleans, on Wednesday afternoon, at 2:45 pm. Several
organizing members of DSE are conducting a symposium on Disability Studies
at the AERA conference on Friday afternoon, at 2:45 pm. Forward all
inquiries to PES member: Susan Gabel, PhD, The University of Michigan,
at sugabel@umich.edu.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY'S NOTE -- Barb Stengel
The Society continues to attract new members and to retain past members. At this date, 354 persons have paid dues for the 99-00 academic year, still short of last year’s figure. To enable the absent-minded among us to keep track of dues status, we are now printing dues payment information on your mailing label. A quick look will tell you if you are “paid up” (or in some cases, paid ahead! That kind of absent-mindedness we like . . . )
I want to offer public thanks here to Craig Cunningham who is our PES webbuilder. More and more folks are making use of information and forms available on the web. That this is possible is due largely to Craig’s expertise, cooperation and very quick turnaround time. Thanks, Craig! (You're welcome -- cac)
A.G. Rud (and assorted others) have been letting us know about inaccuracies on the web membership listing. I want to make clear that responsibility for this lay in my hands and not in Craig’s. We will be updating the complete list shortly and striving to mount an updated version every three months. (This is simpler administratively that making individual corrections on several different databases.). However, I do not, as a rule, want to list member information without explicit member permission. Therefore, beginning with the 00-01 dues year, the dues form will have a check-off box for permission to list contact information. If any member has an objection to being included at this juncture, please contact me by e-mail immediately (pesbss@marauder.millersv.edu) and your listing will be removed as promptly as time allows.
I repeat here an ongoing theme: The best way to keep the Society fiscally healthy is to boost 1) membership, and 2) distribution of the Society’s Yearbook. If your library does not already subscribe to the annual edition of the Yearbook, please petition the “powers with the purse strings” to add that to your acquisitions. If you have colleagues and/or students with an interest in philosophy of education, please urge them to consider Society membership. Information and forms are available on our website (http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES) or by regular post from me (pesbss@marauder.millersv.edu).
The place to meet, greet and keep track of colleague and student members is, of course, the Conference in Toronto! Arrangements have been carefully made by Margaret Brockett and Dwight Boyd, Lynda Stone previews a promising program above, advance registration has been active, and we’ve already sold out of the first block of reserved rooms. Sounds like a place YOU ought to be. . .
Updated Feb 2000
CONTACT: PES Executive Director Jeff Milligan
850-644-8171; milligan@coe.fsu.edu