Conference Details
PESGB Annual Conference 2010 Papers
Date: 26 Mar to 31 Mar 2010
Venue: New College, Oxford
FRIDAY 26 MARCH |
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| 15.30 | Poster sessions [Chris Cox Room] |
| 16.00 | Tea [Junior Common Room] |
| 16.45 |
Invited Speaker |
| 18.15 | Reception [Founder’s Library] Our thanks to Continuum for sponsoring the drinks reception |
| 19.00 | Dinner Our thanks to Wiley-Blackwell for sponsoring this evening’s dinner |
| 20.15-21.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS I | |
| A |
Chair: Judith Suissa Elusive rivalry? Conceptions of the philosophy of education On rationality, normativity and justification: Harvey Siegel on epistemology and education [Red Room] |
| B |
Chair: Stefaan Cuypers Looking the other in the eye: the metaphysics of presence and the ideal of openness in education From the parvenu-pariah dispute to the tension between life and the world [Lecture Room 4] |
| C |
(WORKSHOPS) Chair: Kristján Kristjánsson Valuation of understanding - from a curriculum and a ‘didaktik’ perspective Can personal experience be evidence? [Chris Cox Room] |
| D |
Chair: Ruth Heilbronn Pedagogy of the encounter? Philosophical notes on the idea of ‘meeting places’ as forms of parent support How psychologically realistic should theories of moral education be? [Conduit Room] |
| E |
(SYMPOSIUM) Chair: James Conroy Moral dimensions of sex education [McGregor-Matthews Room] |
| F |
Chair: Janet Orchard RICHARD BAILEY, ANGELA PICKARD Learning to dance well: Reflections on skill learning in elite ballet schools Education’s power as Being Beyond: The transformative potential of Heidegger’s philosophy of technology in education [Lecture Room 6] |
| 21.45 | Bar open |
SATURDAY 27 MARCH |
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08.00 |
Breakfast |
| 09.00-10.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS II | |
| A |
Chair: Richard Davies John Dewey on listening in school and society Critical listening and the dialogic aspect of moral education: Herbart's concept of the teacher as moral guide |
| B |
(SYMPOSIUM) On thinking skills [Lecture Room 4] |
| C |
Chair: Paul Standish Teaching deontological ethics with the help of films MARIO DI PAOLANTONIO |
| D |
Chair: Jeff Stickney Ultimate educational aims, overridingness, and personal well-being Private practice: Schön and the missing social dimension [Conduit Room] |
| E |
(SYMPOSIUM) Chair: Paul Smeyers What is a child? [Lecture Room 6] |
| F |
Chair: Barbara Thayer-Bacon Rethinking higher education access in Malawi: dilemmas in achieving a just system The spiritual Man: challenges for an education towards transcendence [McGregor-Matthews Room] |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 11.00-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS III | |
| A |
Chair: Sharon Todd Practising silence in a community of inquiry Philosophy is (as) an exercise in parrhesia: an example of a philosophical practice outside the school [Red Room] |
| B |
Chair: Kenneth Wain The ties of loyalty Collecting Mist, Herding Cats and Student Placements: Hard Work Should school leadership be ‘shared’? [Conduit Room] |
| C |
Chair: Morwenna Griffiths On status quo bias in civic education
BARBARA THAYER-BACON Educational implications for democracies-always-in-the-making
[McGregor-Matthew Room] |
| D |
Chair: Richard Bailey The question of conscientiousness in liberal education The mechanical and the artful in the Greek concept of craft: techne [Lecture Room 4] |
| E |
(SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: John Marshall What does informal education contribute to the debate about the wider aims and practices of education? [Chris Cox Room] |
| F |
(SYMPOSIUM) Chair: Ben Kotzee Is it true what they say about positive psychology? [Lecture Room 6] |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 15.30-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS IV | |
| A |
Chair: Penny Enslin KAI HORSTHEMKE Where choice matters: liberal democracy and Christian schooling [Red Room] |
| B |
Chair: Mary Healy Juan Luis Vives on the constitution of a moral self: a pre-enlightenment perspective on the education of a virtuous individual The puzzle of education in Plato’s Apology of Socrates [Lecture Room 6] |
| C |
Chair: John White Knowing how, intelligence and vocational and professional education [Chris Cox Room] |
| D |
Chair: Andrew Davis ‘THIS is produced by a brain-process!’ Wittgenstein, transparency, and psychology today Towards a discursive equilibrium: Negotiations of meaning between subject, author and reader [Conduit Room] |
| E |
Chair: Andrew Stables The voice that sings by itself: personalisation in education Beyond useful knowledge: developing the subjective self [Lecture Room 4] |
| F |
Chair: Michael Katz European citizenship and the inheritance of Europe ‘We are alone, and we are never alone’: The political education of human nature [McGregor-Matthews Room] |
| 17.00 | Tea [Junior Common Room] |
| 17.30 |
Invited Speaker |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner |
| 21.00 |
Annual General Meeting of the Society [Chris Cox Room] |
SUNDAY 28 MARCH |
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| 08.30 | Breakfast |
| 09.30–11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS V | |
| A |
Chair: Michael Hand Narrative reflection in the philosophy of teaching: genealogy and portraiture Encountering the philosopher as teacher: on Levinas and teacher education [Red Room] |
| B |
(SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: David Bridges The need for philosophy in a big research project: lessons from the Nuffield Review [Chris Cox Room] |
| C |
Chair: Colin Wringe Autobiography: self-re-education beyond literature and philosophy [Lecture Room 4] |
| D |
(WORKSHOP) Chair: Patricia White PATRICIA HANNAM Autobiography: self-re-education beyond literature and philosophy [McGregor-Matthews Room] |
| E |
Chair: Tone Kvernbekk Social justice and educational delights Re-connecting love, authority, and mystery in education [Lecture Room 6] |
| F |
Chair: Naomi Hodgson Trust and accountability in U.S. educational policy: a conceptual reexamination Judging teachers: Foucault, governance and agency during education [Conduit Room] |
| 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11:30 |
Invited Speaker Contextualism, argumentative norms, and educational ideals Respondent: Paul Smeyers Chair: Richard Smith [Holywell Music Room] |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
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