PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
PES UPDATE OCTOBER 2001
UPDATE OVERVIEW
This mailing contains information about the 2002 PES Annual Conference (including the Early Registration Form and the hotel reservations number), the results of the Election Committee election, a Fellow nomination form, and a dues notice for those who have not yet forwarded their 2001-02 dues. You will also find information about the Conference Book Exhibit, and a Second Call for Papers for the Vancouver Conference. Read further for other announcements of interest to members.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Barbara Houston
Greetings to all,
First let me express heartfelt thanks to all who are working hard to make this upcoming conference a splendid one. In particular, our Executive Secretary Barbara Stengel, the Program Chair Scott Fletcher and the Hospitality Committee Chair Heesoon Bai, are all labouring to make our conference fruitful and fun.
I want to urge you to get papers in and plan on Vancouver in April. Perhaps
promise of the sight of cherry blossoms, the sound of the surf crashing
on English Bay and the scent of old Redwoods can entice you. The hotel
is situated right next to Stanley Park with its wooded trails and walking
paths right next to the ocean. Canadian PES members will be there to welcome
you and Canadians will give you more than fair exchange for your dollar.
But there are other reasons too. We have two very interesting guests joining us. Cheshire Calhoun (University of Louisville) will give the Kneller Lecture. Professor Calhoun's work is in the area of Philosophy of the Emotions, Ethics, and Feminist Theory. Our distinguished speaker will be Anthony Weston from Elon University. Professor Weston is a Master Teacher at Elon; his work is chiefly in the areas of Ethics and Environmental Education. I expect each will be a lively and engaging presence throughout the conference. Of course, we have our own homegrown talent within the organization, the more humourous elements of which will also be on display at the Presidential Luncheon. So come do some philosophy by the sea.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE SET FOR APRIL 19th through 22nd - Heesoon Bai
The 2002 Annual Meeting will be held at the Coast Plaza Suite Hotel at Stanley Park. (Yes, it's the same location as our last gathering in Vancouver. Diane Beckett reports that the efficiency suites are really swell!) The hotel is strategically located near the English Bay with "spectacular ocean, mountain or city views." Amenities include an indoor pool, whirlpool, exercise room, saunas and squash courts.
The Hotel is offering PES members a special discount rate for the conference. Standard guest rooms are $129 Cdn. per night for a single or a double, with a $20 charge for each additional person. (Keep the exchange rate in mind and this looks very good.) Suites are available for $149 Cdn. The conference rate will apply for the three nights prior to the meeting and the three nights after, based upon availability, for those members who want to extend their stay in Vancouver. Reservations can be made by calling 1-800-663-1144. All reservations must be made by March 18th, 2002.
The Hospitality Committee, chaired by Heesoon Bai with the able assistance of Ann Chinnery, Jerry Coombs, Pamela Courtenay-Hall and Gerda Wever-Rabehl, will have further information available later with respect to restaurants, sight-seeing, and so forth.
A Conference registration form is enclosed with this mailing. You may reserve a spot for the Presidential Luncheon as well; the additional charge is $25 US ($12 US for grad students). We plan to offer electronic registration via the website (www.philosophyofeducation.org) within the next few weeks so keep a lookout if you prefer e-business to paper transactions.
NEWS ABOUT THE 2001 PROGRAM - Scott Fletcher
The full program committee is in place and eagerly anticipating your proposals. The committee includes: Lanny Beyer, Susan Edgerton, Bob Floden, Maureen Ford, Ken Howe, Cris Mayo, Christine McCarthy, Aaron Schutz, Barbara Thayer-Bacon, and Daniel Vokey. Liza Finkel will helping with special sessions. The program committee encourages members to submit special topical and alternative sessions. Members are reminded that with the exception of the Presidential Address, the Kneller Lecture and other specially-designated invited talks, only those full papers reviewed and accepted by the Program committee and invited response to them will be printed in Philosophy of Education 2002.
Those among you who wish to serve as session chairs or respondents may contact Scott by mail or email. Include a note indicating your area(s) of expertise.
We are planning a 9:00 AM start for the conference on Friday, April 19, 2002, so make your travel plans to arrive Thursday night and be ready to join the action on Friday morning. As usual, the conference will wind down at noon on Monday (April 22nd).
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The deadline for conference submissions is fast approaching November 1, 2001. The full Call for Papers, a style sheet, and the Copyright Permission form are all available on the PES website: www.philosophyofeducation.org in case you lose your copies. Submissions should be sent to Scott Fletcher, Program Chair.
Reminder: A submission packet must include six copies of the paper (4500 word maximum) or proposal; a separate sheet including name, address, institutional affiliation (if any), telephone number, email address, title and 125 word abstract), and a paper word count (including footnotes); and a completed copy of the copyright form. The envelope and each manuscript should be marked PES SUBMISSION.
Send submissions to:
Scott Fletcher
Department of Education
Morill Hall
University of New Hampshire
durham, NH 03824-2395
Inquiries should be directed to Dr. Fletcher at scott.fletcher@unh.edu.
CONFERENCE ROOMS FOR GRADUATE STUDENT MEMBERS
PES will subsidize rooms for graduate students again this year. Any graduate student who is a current member of PES is eligible for a PES sponsored room. To reserve a room, send a note with your name, sex, the nights for which you want a room, a check (payable to PES) for twenty dollars for each night you expect to use the room, address, phone number, and email address (if available). Please note the increase in cost from last year, the first such increase since this practice was instituted nearly a decade ago. A student's room will be confirmed upon receipt of the check. The $20/night fee is refundable only if we are able to find another student to take the space.
Rooms are reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis, so get your checks in early to assure a space. Rooms will be shared, four students to a room. We will make up to four rooms available on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, accommodating up to 16 graduate students each night. If you have any questions about space availability, contact Ann Whitmire at help@philosophyofeducation.org or call 717-872-3785.
BOOK DISPLAY AT PES IN CHICAGO
Gerda Wever-Rabehl, a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University, has agreed to serve as the Book Coordinator for the Vancouver conference. If you have recently published work to call to her attention, please email her at gjweverr@sfu.ca.
SECOND CALL FOR 2001-2002 DUES
Included in this mailing is the 2000-2001 dues form/payment envelope if you have not yet paid your dues for this academic year. If you do not receive a dues form, you are current. You can double check that by examining your mailing label. It will indicate the last year for which you have paid dues. Those that read 01-02 are current.
There are now three options for paying dues: by check with the enclosed form, by credit card with the enclosed form, and now a totally electronic transaction via the PES website and PayPal! This last option should be especially attractive for our international members.
To encourage the use of the electronic transaction, we are extending an introductory offer. There will be no handling fee charged at this time to any member who renews their membership via the website (www.philosophyofeducation.org) and PayPal. It's very easy; just go to our website and follow directions. After the first of the year, we will add a $2.50 surcharge (the cost of PayPal's services to us). Please note that this is significantly less expensive per transaction than our present credit card handling system; we anticipate making the transition to this type of on- line system only by the end of this membership year.
Those using regular mail should 1) make checks payable to Philosophy of Education Society and return it in the enclosed envelope, OR 2) forward credit card information. Credit card billing includes a $5.00 transaction fee to underwrite the Society's costs for the credit card system.
Members outside US, please note: Dues and registration amounts are US dollars. If you are sending a check from a country other than the US, please clearly indicate "US dollars" on your check or adjust the amount to reflect the currency differential. Thanks for your assistance in this matter.
RESULTS OF THE ELECTION COMMITTEE BALLOTING
The following nominees received the highest number of votes for membership on the 2002 Election Committee:
Ann Diller, University of New Hampshire, Chair
Megan Boler, Virginia Tech University Dwight Boyd, OISE, University of
Toronto
David Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia
Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma
Frank Margonis, University of Utah
Harvey Siegel, University of Miami
Ann Diller was the top vote-getter and President Barbara Houston followed tradition in naming Ann Committee Chair.
Thanks to all who stood for election.
The Committee will choose a slate for upcoming vacancies on the Executive Board and COPA. They will also select the next President-Elect and they will select a new Executive Secretary to serve up to three one-year terms.
The Committee will accept suggestions for all positions from the membership at large. Those suggestions should be emailed to Ann Diller via her secretary canfield@hopper.unh.edu. Ann can also be reached by telephone at 603-862-2310.
NOMINATIONS FOR FELLOW
We are including in this mailing a nomination form to be used in suggesting a member for Fellow status in the Society. By constitutional provision, nominations for Fellow are considered by the Membership Committee prior to the Annual Conference and approved by the Executive Committee at the Conference. Only Fellows may be considered for an official position within the Society. If you would like to nominate someone, including yourself, for Fellow status, please provide the information and endorsements requested and mail to Barb Stengel on the address noted on the nomination form.
Members should be aware that the Executive Board plans to reconsider Fellow status at the spring meeting, in response to suggestions by some members that the concept of Fellow is anachronistic and perhaps undemocratic. Still, such a change would require constitutional revision and cannot happen quickly.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND INFORMATION OF INTEREST
Congratulations to PES member Dilafruz Williams for winning the 2001
Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award given by the Campus Compact for exemplifying
exceptional "service learning" practices, as reported on page
5 of the August 2001 TIAA-CREF Participant magazine. According to the
article, "Dr. Williams has made significant contributions to campus-wide
community programs at Portland State University." Way to go, Dilafruz!
(And thanks for A.G.Rud for the "heads up" here.)
The International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group is pleased
to announce the availability of the book, SCIENCE EDUCATION AND CULTURE:
THE CONTRIBUTION OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, 2001) at the considerably discounted rate of USD27
(plus postage) .The book of 360 pages contains 21 papers selected from
the group's 5thInternational Conference held at Pavia University and Lake
Como in November 1999. Order from Michael R. Matthews, School of Education,
UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia, or email
order information to m.matthews@unsw.edu.au
Beginning now, Educational Theory prefers submissions in electronic format.
The new directions for authors will read as follows: Manuscripts should
be submitted electronically to Educational Theory, preferably as an e-mail
attachment. We prefer RTF files. The e-mail address for submissions is
EdTheory@uiuc.edu. (This information comes to us, of course, from Editor
and Past President Nick Burbules.)
The Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia,
invites applications for a full-time, tenure track academic appointment
in Philosophy of Education at the Assistant, Associate or Professor level.
The appointment will become effective as filled, and will be subject to
final budgetary approval. For a full position description, go to www.edst.educ.ubc.ca
or contact Carolyn M. Shields, Professor and Head, Department of Educational
Studies, (604) 822-8994; or carolyn.shields@ubc.ca PES participant Kyoko
Inoue has published Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought: The
Evolution of the Concept of Jinkaku in Moral and Educational Discoursethrough
University of Michigan Press.
Anyone wishing to present a "work in progress" paper at PESA, the Philosophy of Education of Australasia, in Perth, Western Australia, November 30th through December 2, 2001 should contact Bruce Haynes (bhaynes@cowan.edu.au) no later than October 19th.
KEEPING TRACK OF EACH OTHER
A number of veteran PES members have changed positions/locations in the past year and graduate student members were successful in claiming academic positions for the first time. While it is impossible for us to reprint all the comings and goings with contact information in this space, we would like to assist members in keeping track of each other. If you are changing positions and would like to notify colleague friends of this fact, send an email with new affiliation to help@philosophyofeducation.org. (Don't forget to include full contact info so we can make the change in PES files). We will list changes received and direct members to the website for contact information. Moves that have come to our attention include:
Emery Hyslop-Margison from Simon Fraser University to Ball State University
Lucille Eckrich from DePaul University to Illinois State University
If others have moved since last academic year, let us know and we'll be happy to pass on the news.
FROM THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY - Barb Stengel
I returned to my regular teaching load from sabbatical in late August and was making a smooth, enjoyable transition back to a high level of "hectic" when the events of September 11th stopped me in my tracks. Now I find myself given to so many moments of reflection that "hectic" seems unthinkable. That is not altogether a bad thing. In particular, I am looking at my students, both graduate and undergraduate, with a renewedsense of what education can mean in their lives and in mine. I am also pondering my "retirement" from the position of Executive Secretary, reflection prompted by the naming of the Election Committee. The Committee will select the next Executive Secretary and I now know first hand (through lots of smart moves and too many oversights!) the extent to which the Society's smooth functioning relies on this person. I also realize clearly that the position cannot be handled without significant support from one's institution. If anyone is willing to make this kind of significant contribution to PES and wants to know what is required, please call me at 717-872-3785. I will be happy to share both the delights and the burdens! I will be happy to nominate you. And I will be sure to advise you on what to negotiate for at home before you accept the position.
Speaking of support at home, I would like to acknowledge the financial
and personal support of my (new) Dean, Jane Bray, and my Department Chair,
Cheryl Desmond. They are continuing to make it possible for me to employ
Ann Whitmire (who does all the work and does a great job!) and make it
possible for PES to operate cost effectively by taking advantage of university
services at modest charge. I wish the next Executive Secretary similarly
supportive administrators. I am very much looking forward to the Conference
in Vancouver, especially since Lynda Stone let me in on a few ideas she
has for the "Presidential Follies" planned for the Sunday Luncheon.
Heesoon Bai, Scott Fletcher and friends appear to be on track re conference
and program planning. More importantly, I have never been to Vancouver!
It will be a treat if even half of what Heesoon and Barbara tell me is
true. I trust I will see YOU there.
If I do see you there, please be sure (you knew there had to be an admonition
in here somewhere) that you have paid your just debts re dues, registration
and meal fees. A small but financially significant number of persons failed
to register or buy meal tickets in Chicago but still took advantage of
the Society's hospitality (in the form of session room use, food, and
beverages). It did not hurt us because we were "covered" by
the largesse of the Universities of Chicago (both Illinois and Urbana-Champaign),
but fairness demands that each contribute to our shared well being.
One of the perks of being the Executive Secretary is receiving positive comments and greetings on behalf of the Society. I received a lovely email from Murray Elliott's secretary Jeannie Young at the University of British Columbia acknowledging our resolution in his honor (and reminding me that he was no longer in a position to receive PES mailings one of those oversights mentioned above!) Jeannie said, among other things, that "Murray is missed here. We have erected a tree and plaque in his honour and I get to view it from my window every day." I also received a variety of responses to my PES "standardized test" in the July Update. My favorite was Gary Fenstermacher's who noted he appreciated my "suggesting, however remotely, that "My Girl" was in vogue when [he] was 11!" A few of us did try to answer the quiz with a straight face but nobody came close enough to warrant a trip to Suzanne de Castell's island tree house. For those whose self-identity is tied to test scores, here is the answer key from the July quiz: c,d,b,a,c,a. You can compare these answers to the questions by going to the July Update on the website. Oh, and for those who can't go to the trouble, it was an 11 year old Harvey Siegel who serenaded his girfriend with "My Girl." To balance my asssessment array, let me offer an essay test this time.
Select one of the following topics and compose a well-crafted essay in
response:
a) PES has just designated a new SIG called "Women with Sticks."
Who is eligible for such a group and why? What might their objectives
and goal statement be? And what is the Ann Marie Pinti Scholar-Athlete
Award anyway?
b) Paul Farber has offered to pull together a special session at the
2002 Conference to be called "Thespians and Lesbians: Emerging Identities/
Submerged Identities." Discuss.
c) If PES had a basketball team, who would be on it besides Jim Garrison? Would the team ever win any games? Would it even beat the PES Speech and Debate team? Would it beat the PES Band and Drill Team? Use both love and logic in crafting your response.
Rest assured I don't expect any answers to these questions, but maybe it will give you something to take your mind off the state of the world. Perhaps the best thing -- the only thing -- for all of us right now is to do good work and to cherish our loved ones. I hope you are finding both your work and your loved ones engaging.
CONTACT: PES Executive Director Jeff Milligan
850-644-8171; milligan@coe.fsu.edu