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July 2006 Update

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1. First Call for Dues: The new online payment system
2. New Ed Theory rule
3. Message from the President - Susan Laird
4. First Call for Papers - Barbara Stengel
5. Hospitality Committee Alert - Deron Boles
6. Elections
7. Calls for papers
8. Announcements
9. New books by PES members

First Call for Dues: New online payment system --Sasha Sidorkin

Please pay your 06-07 dues if you have not done so. The PES membership year starts July 1 and ends June 30. You should have received another e-mail from me with your dues status. Keep in mind, my e-mail, and other contact information has changed. I have moved to the University of Northern Colorado.

With the blessing of the Executive Board, yours truly has implemented a new on-line dues payment system. the conference registration will eventually work the same way. It took a lot of tinkering, and is still far from perfect. However, the advantages are great: no more paper forms, no more mailings, no more manually entered transactions. Credit card and go. Even if you use checks, you still need to register on-line. But keep in mind, there is no more discount for paying by check, because a credit card transaction takes no time. So, please use credit cards (Visa and Mastercard only) if at all possible; it will allow you to use your university's card as well. Feel free to e-mal or call me if you run into problems; I have access to all records.

Please be patient with whatever bugs are still in the system. For example, the system may use words "PIN" and "PASSWORD" interchangeably, which maybe confusing. It will ask you to create a new account, and e-mail you the password (pin) which you can immediately change to your mother's maiden name, or whatever strikes your fancy. If you forget it, it will resend you the password. Most of current PES members's information should be uploaded into the system, so use the Recall button when you get to it.

To pay your 06-07 dues, go to the Membership page. If you wish to repent and pay your back dues, go through another payment, please (there will be a checkbox, but you cannot check two of them at the time). You will be forgiven, and possibly saved.

New Ed Theory rule                         Top

In case you have not yet read the recent Executive Board minutes, there is a change in our Educational theory subscription policy. The bad news: if you join or rejoin in the middle of the year, no back issues for that year will be mailed to you.The good news: you will receive the journal for the remainder of the year PLUS the entire next year. The Board believes it is a fair trade off, considering that you can always look up any issue of the journal online. Most members who pay every year won't notice any difference.

Message from the President - Susan Laird                         Top

Greetings from Oklahoma!  First, I want to congratulate Sharon Bailin, Daniel Vokey, Shelby Sheppard and their whole wonderful team on the exhilarating and memorable conference they so adventurously hosted for us all in Puerto Vallarta.  The event was marred only by the sad news that two of our friends, colleagues who have contributed much to philosophy and education, Terry McLaughlin and Lanny Beyer, had recently died. 

On a far happier note, I am looking forward with particular delight to your papers next year and to our conversations with Richard Shusterman, a vigorously intercultural and interdisciplinary philosopher of body, arts, and aesthetics who has genuine interests in education, mass media, and young people.  He has accepted with enthusiasm our invitation to serve as Kneller Lecturer in 2007.  Do put some of his books on your summer reading list.  Many of you are probably already familiar with his Practicing Philosophy (1997) or his Pragmatist Aesthetics (1992, 2000), so consider dipping now and then into the essays he collected in The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy (2004) or devote some of your summer days to reading his Performing Live (2000) or his Surface and Depth (2002).

Where, when, why, etc.:  Deron Boyles has done efficient savvy work as Hospitality Chair, negotiating our contract for the conference site in Atlanta, March 15-19, 2007 at an affordable rate in an ideally located hotel.  We made sure the dates will not conflict with AERA, APA, PESGB, Passover, or Easter, and we deliberately sought a major airport-hub city in the east so that getting to the conference will be as easy as possible for as many people as possible on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.  We chose a southern city in hopes of offering northerners some respite from their frigid climes, and we chose Atlanta in particular because of its many historical and cultural assets, including several fine institutions of higher education.  See the Hospitality Chair’s note below for further details.

Who, what, why, etc.:  Barbara Stengel has lost no time as Program Chair, keeping me in line with her marvelous wisecracks and making more of those pragmatic moves for which she is already so famous, appointing a committee of yearbook editors as diverse as possible in age, culture, and philosophical perspectives and specialties.  Her co-chair Jeffrey Ayala Milligan will provide leadership for development of an evening program that, besides offering the usual “alternative” format sessions, will aim both to welcome promising students in philosophy of education and to address concerns expressed at the 2005 COPA meeting re PES’s fulfillment of its mission to cultivate our fruitful relationships with workers in other areas of education.   Whereas that program will attempt some local outreach, Susan Birden and Wendy Kohli are engaged in international outreach to recognize and celebrate such fruitful relationships already begun, planning a special event to be announced and described in the next Update.  Meanwhile, the democratic functioning and academic flourishing of PES depends substantially upon members’ presence and commitment to purposeful, active, and continuous service on its various committees and boards.  See the Program Chair’s notes below for more detailed information about the program, including one all-new feature that we hope will address that abiding concern while also encouraging promising students.  We are committed to making it possible for all who wish to attend the conference and to enjoy meaningful opportunities for discussion even if not presenting finished work in 2007 for yearbook publication.

Please!  This coming year we will be taking up some urgently pressing concerns recently expressed about PES membership and continuity of PES leadership, the availability of jobs for philosophers of education, PES’s social responsibility in its professional affairs, and the curricular status of educational thought by and about culturally diverse women and girls within the field.  Please plan to come to Atlanta and contribute your thought and energy to our deliberations about these matters at our annual meetings in 2007.

Thank you!  I want to thank the many who have so generously and thoughtfully consulted, advised, and participated in our planning for 2007.  We are grateful also to the University of Oklahoma, Florida State University, and SUNY-Buffalo State for the enormously generous material support they have already promised for the 2007 conference, and we look forward to some more support forthcoming from other institutions as well.

First Call for Papers - Barbara Stengel                         Top

We’re heading to Atlanta in March and the pieces – attractive location, appealing and provocative Kneller lecturer, strong Program Committee,  a new twist, and a special attraction -- are in place for an excellent program.   I invite you to complete the puzzle by submitting your proposal for a paper presentation, an alternative session or topical symposium, or a (new!) work-in-progress working  paper session.  As usual, deadline for submission is November 1, 2006.   We will adhere tightly to the deadline because of the early conference date.  However, our use of Open Journal System (http://ojs.ed.uiuc.edu/) for electronic submission should ease both review timeline and your effort to make the deadline.

As you consider your submission plans, please take a careful look at the Call for Papers and Proposals.  The Call outlines the specifications for all submissions, gives directions for registering for and using the Open Journal System, and provides a link to the PES Style Sheet.   Note that you must first register in the system (a fairly simple process) and then submit a proposal.   Those who presented papers at the 2006 meeting and those who serve as reviewers for Educational Theory will be familiar with the system. See the Review Sheet.

President Susan Laird has charged the Program Committee with paying particular attention to issues of educational practice in the hopes that we might shape an “embedded conference,” that is, a series of evening sessions that would be attractive to local educators, especially those studying in the many doctoral programs in the Atlanta area.   We encourage philosophers of education working in school settings and in teacher education programs to identify those aspects of practice that provide grist for the philosophical mill and to submit an alternative session proposal.

A new feature this year will be “working paper” sessions.  Those who have essays that are not-yet-ready-for-prime-time and those who are just beginning a new line of work may submit a proposal that outlines the key question, direction and mode of analysis to be employed.   Accepted proposals will be grouped -- by topic or approach -- in pairs and triads and assigned an experienced member of PES with appropriate expertise.  (We hope to employ past presidents in this effort!)  Working sessions will be listed on the program and tentatively scheduled; gatherings will be informal.

An international festschrift for Jane Roland Martin is being planned (by Wendy Kohli and Susan Birden) as a special session.  More details will be available in the October Update.

The 2007 Kneller Lecturer is Dr. Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University.  Shusterman holds the Dorothy Schmidt Chair in the Humanities and is Professor of  Philosophy and English.  His exploration of and commitment to the “emancipatory enlargement of the aesthetic,”  expressed in Pragmatist Aesthetics and in “Somaesthetics,” will be of interest to a wide range of PES scholars.    We strongly encourage those who wish to probe, extend or critique Shusterman’s thinking – with regard to pragmatism, aesthetics, and the embodied aspects of educational experience -- to submit papers and alternative proposals. 

An accomplished, diverse and interesting cast of characters has agreed to serve on the Program Committee for the 2007 Annual Meeting in Atlanta:  Kathleen Knight Abowitz (Miami University of Ohio), Heesoon Bai (Simon Fraser University), Gert Biesta (University of Exeter), Megan Boler (OISE, University of Toronto), David Carr (University of Edinburgh), John Covaleskie (Northern Michigan University), Paul Farber (Western Michigan University),  Charles Howell (Minnesota State University), Kathy Hytten (Southern Illinois University), Huey-li Li (University of Akron),  and Jeffrey Ayala Milligan (Florida State University).    Jeff Milligan will coordinate the alternative sessions with special emphasis on the embedded evening program focused on issues of practice.   John Covaleskie will coordinate the work-in-progress sessions.   James Stillwagon will assist Jeff and John with reviewing proposals and developing a strong alternative program (including SIG meetings) to complement the formal paper sessions.  Thanks to this group who have already begun work on a set of review criteria that will be available to authors in advance of your preparation of papers and proposals.  As you can see, 2007 program planning is well underway.  All we need now is your proposal!

Hospitality Committee Alert - Deron Boyles                         Top

While we just returned from a great conference in sunny Mexico, now is the time to start planning for our next conference:  Atlanta looks forward to welcoming PES in March of 2007.  One of most exciting aspects of coming to Atlanta is the location of our hotel, the Sheraton Colony Square Hotel.  Located in pedestrian-friendly Midtown, the hotel is a gateway to many of the city’s delights.  PES members will be able to walk to Piedmont Park (Atlanta’s version of Central Park), the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, the Atlanta Symphony, the recently expanded High Museum of Art, and the Alliance Theater.  The 14th Street Playhouse is directly across the street from the hotel (featuring multiple independent and smaller productions) and fine dining is located two blocks away on famed Crescent Avenue. PES members can take MARTA's rapid transit system to see the Georgia Dome, The Carter Center, Centennial Olympic Park, The King Center, the new Georgia Aquarium - the world's largest aquarium, Atlantic Station - Atlanta's new retail and entertainment district, and more quirky and eccentric areas like Cabbagetown and Little Five Points.

In order to secure this great location, our contract stipulates that we need a high occupancy rate.  Staying consistent with our competitive pricing history, the room rate is $139 per night.  Graduate students are especially encouraged to attend this year’s conference because, in addition to the rooms subsidized by PES, our contract includes five rooms at the reduced rate of $99 per night—no other Midtown hotel will likely be able to match that rate and the students staying in those rooms will count toward our occupancy numbers.  Those flying to Atlanta can take MARTA directly from the airport (for $2) to the Arts Center Station and be two blocks from the hotel.  Those wishing to take a cab for the 12 mile journey should expect to pay $37.  Parking at the hotel is $20.

Beyond these details, we look forward to sharing southern hospitality in a city known variably as the “City among the Trees,” the “City too Busy to Hate,” and “HOTlanta.”  Plan now and we look forward to seeing you in March 2007.

Elections                         Top

If you're are a PES member (that is you have paid your 05-06 dues), you should have received an e-mail with password. Click here to elect the new Elections Committee by September 15. Please be patient, for it takes a while for the page to load. Make sure Java script is enabled.

Her is the list of committees, some appointments are not confirmed:

Calls for papers and proposals

• Learning Inquiry A new journal from Springer Editors: Jason Nolan and Jeremy Hunsinger email: editors@learning-inquiry.info. Learning Inquiry is a refereed scholarly journal, devoted to establishing the area of "learning" as a focus for transdisciplinary study. The journal is a forum centered on learning that remains open to varied objects of inquiry, including machine, human, plant and animal learning as well as the processes of learning in business, government, and the professions, both in formal and informal environments. This journal is of importance to those interested in learning, understanding its contexts, and anticipating its future. The journal will also present special issues that identify the central areas of learning inquiry to provide focus for future research. Learning Inquiry strikes a balance between presenting innovative research and documenting current knowledge to foster a scholarly dialogue on learning that is independent of domain and methodological restrictions. Submit Your Research to Learning Inquiry http://submit.learning-inquiry.info
  
  
• Philosophy of Education: Research Areas, Paradigms, Methods: Special Issue of the Critique & Humanism Journal Sofia). Critique &Humanism is an international journal for Humanities and Social Studies, which is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is a member of the Europe-wide EUROZINE journals network. The editor of the Special Issue is Krassimir Stojanov (University of Hannover and University of Magdeburg). Only original contributions in English (between 5000 and 8000 words) will be accepted. Their selection will be carried out by a blind peer-review procedure. We strongly encourage Educational Researchers and Philosophers, regardless what schools of thought they are standing for, to send their contributions via email or post to the following address: PD Dr. Krassimir Stojanov University of Hannover Institute of Education Bismarckstr. 2 D-30173 Hannover Email: krassimirstojanov@yahoo.de Deadline for submissions (prepared for blind review) is 10th February 2007.
  
  
• The New England Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES) will hold its 2006 Annual Meeting at Framingham State College in Massachusetts on Saturday, October 21st. The keynote speaker for the conference is Dr. Walter Feinberg, Charles Dunn Hardie Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Dr. Feinberg, an internationally recognized philosopher of education, is the author of numerous books including Citizenship in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities (2003) with K. McDonough, Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: A Philosophy of Education in a Multicultural Society (1998), On Higher Ground: Education and the Case for Affirmative Action (1998), School and Society (1985) with J. Soltis, and Understanding Education: Towards a Reconstruction of Educational Inquiry (1983). His forthcoming book is For Goodness Sake: Moral and Civic Values in Religious Schools. Over twenty additional papers will be presented at the conference. Breakfast and lunch are included in the conference fee which is $25.00. Please contact Kelly Ann Kolodny, Program Chair, for additional information. She may be reached at 508-626-4567 or kkolodny@frc.mass.edu.
  
  
• Join the New Social Epistemology Newsgroup. Jon Dolle has agreed to moderate a newsgroup for Episteme, a journal of social epistemology. The idea is to provide a convenient conduit to distribute announcements of interest to those working in social epistemology and related areas. Episteme is edited by Alvin Goldman (Rutgers) and has recently published the work of our own Harvey Siegel on epistemology and education. To sign up, please click on link below and then click "Join": http://groups.google.com/group/episteme.
  
  
• PESA Second Call for papers. PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA 35th Annual Conference University of Sydney New South Wales 23 November – 26 November 2006 Theme: Politics, business and education: The aims of education in the Twenty-First Century Members of PESA and other persons interested in presenting a philosophically competent paper on the theme or other topic of philosophical and/or educational interest are invited to forward a copy of the paper to the Conference Convenor Dr. Jim MacKenzie at j.mackenzie@edfac.usyd.edu.au Papers to be refereed for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings should be sent to the Convenor by 30 July.
  
  
• The Journal on Educational Controversy: A journal of ideas Volume 2 Number 1: Kozol’s Nation of Shame Forty Years Later (Manuscripts due Aug. 1, 2006). Volume 2 Number 2: Developing Dispositions: Professional Ethic or Political Indoctrination? (Manuscripts due December 31, 2006). Volume 3 Number 1: Schooling as if Democracy Matters. (Manuscripts due June 30, 2007) For further information, go to: http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal
  
  
• From Dr. Giovanni Pampanini [gpampa@nti.it]: As proposer of the next World Congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, WCCES, I've been appointed as new Vice-President of the World Council itself (President: Prof. Mark Bray, mark.bray@iiep.unesco.org). By this note, a short introduction to the "philosophy" of the World Congress - about the organization, please visit the web site: www.hku.hk/cerc/wcces), I would like to invite you to take interest in the ongoing process of implementation of the World Congress. The World Congress of CE will be held in Sarajevo, 3rd to 7th September 2007. The proposal, accepted unanimously by the 34 costituent Societies of the WCCES, has been advanced by the Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education ME.S.C.E. (www.mesce.org), of which I am now the Past-President. That choice was motivated by the need, felt by all the ca. 50 scholars Members of the MESCE, to inagurate a new direction in the field of CE, that is the direct affrontment of the war issues and the dialogue with the Islam. Sarajevo, for sure, represents a "wild" symbol for both those concerns. The general theme of the World Congress is in fact established as follows: "Living Together: Education and Intercultural Dialogue".
  
  
• The second annual education conference of the Academy for Educational Studies (formerly the Little Red Schoolhouse) will take place at Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, on October 12th and 13th, 2006. Both theoretical and practice-oriented proposals are welcomed in both the “open topic” and “theme topic” strands. All proposals will be blind peer-reviewed. All proposals must be submitted electronically. Inquiries to AcademyEdStudies@missouristate.edu.

Announcements

• If you have not yet subscribed to the new Philosed listserv run by Craig Cunningham, please do so at http://groups.google.com/group/Philosed.
  
  
• Call for New or Revised Syllabi:  The foundations of Education Syllabi Clearinghouse (available at http://coe.ilstu.edu/lteckri/phyedsyll/ ) was established in 2003 as a database of foundations of education courses from undergraduate and master's level teacher education programs.  In order for it to remain current and useful, PES members are invited to submit updated or new syllabi for their undergraduate or master's level teacher education courses.  Send syllabi to Lucille Eckrich at lteckri@ilstu.edu.  If you are submitting updates, please indicate whether you want them to replace your existing syllabi or be added to them.  New contributors are welcome.
  
  
• FREE online subscription to Volume One of Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. Register Now – Issue One Now Published.Education, Citizenship and Social Justice is a major new journal launched in March 2006. ECSJ will provide a strategic forum for international and multi-disciplinary dialogue for all academic educators and educational policy-makers concerned with the meanings and form of citizenship and social justice as these are realized throughout the time spent in educational institutions.
  Full information about this exciting new journal including subscription information, full aims and scope and manuscript submission details can be found at http://ecsj.sagepub.com. Click here now for your free online subscription to Volume One. Register today to be reading from the beginning. 
  
  
• Early in 2007, in cd-IJE (Compact Disk formatted International Journal of Educology), look for a philosophical account of each article published in the 2006 issues of Educational Theory.  The philosophical account will be from the perspective of experiential philosophy of educology, as it is being developed in the Institute of History and Philosophy of Educology for Developing Democracies in the World, an initiative of ERA/USA.  For more information e-mail fisher_james@msn.com and/or access www.era-usa.net.
  
  
• From Diana Beckett: I am enjoying (?) my first month of retirement and I working harder than ever at Maggies Place. I want to thank the PES membership for the many years I have been able to attend the meetings and get to know the members. I appreciate the kindness that has been extended to me and for the nice farewell and gift. I will remember my last meeting fondly. Since October the store has donated over $1000 in cash and furniture donations to the Center for Women in Transition in Champaign to aid them in their support to women how have had to leave their homes because of abuse.We will soon have our web site www.maggies-place.com up and running.

New books by PES members:

• John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living: Revisioning . Aesthetic Education. Author: David A. Granger. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. Publication date: September 15, 2006. More information, including book endorsements from some PES members, can be found at www.palgrave-usa.com. The book is listed under both Philosophy (art and aesthetics) and Education (aims and objectives).
• Israel Scheffler's book Of Human Potential: An Essay in the Philosophy of Education (1985), has just been published in Shanghai in Chinese translation, Chinese translation copyright 2005, by East China Normal University Press.
  
• Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future by Gert J.J. Biesta. Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, CO www.paradigmpublishers.com
  
• Dianne Gereluk, Education and Community, (London: Continuum Press, 2006).
  

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