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PESGB Annual Conference 2009 Details

FRIDAY 3 APRIL

16.00 Tea
[Junior Common Room]
16.45 Invited Speaker
PAUL SMEYERS
Chains of dependency: On the disenchantment and the illusion of being free at last
Respondent:  Kenneth Wain
Chair: Christopher Winch
[Holywell Music Room]
18.15 Reception
[Founder’s Library]
Our thanks to The Spencer Foundation for sponsoring the drinks
19.00 Blackwell Dinner
Our thanks to Wiley-Blackwell for sponsoring this evening’s dinner
20.15-21.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS I
A

Chair: Doret de Ruyter

ANDREW DAVIS

Assessment and Fairness: Attending to Examples in the Spirit of the Later Wittgenstein

IAN MACMULLEN

Civic Education and Compliance with Law

[Red Room]

B

Chair: Shirley Pendlebury

MICHELLE FORREST

Justifying the Arts: The Value of Illuminating Failures

JANE MCDONNELL

Democracy, Art and Education: Connecting the Three Via a Performative View of Subjectivity

[Lecture Room 4]

C

(WORKSHOPS)

Chair: Kristján Kristjánsson

VASCO CORREIA

Education, Epistemic Virtues and Weakness of Will

RAFAL GODON

Unity in Educational Thinking

SEAN WHITTLE

Religion, Intelligence and Curriculum: Some Critical Reflections

[Chris Cox Room]

D

Chair: Nigel Tubbs

DEREK PIGRUM

Cogo/Cogito—Gathering and Thinking: The Interval Between Repose and Action in Arts Education

SIMON HØFFDING

Conditions of Creativity: A Reading of Descartes, Kant, and Leibniz in the Context of Soka Education

[Conduit Room]

(SYMPOSIUM)

Chair: David Bridges

HARRY BRIGHOUSE ET AL

What do non-philosophers want from philosophers of education?

[McGregor-Matthews Room]

F

Chair: Geoffrey Hinchliffe

JAIME AHLBERG

Educational Adequacy, Educational Equality, and Ideal Theory

CHRIS MARTIN

On Positive Rights and Duties: What Can ‘Thin’ Universalizability Tell us about the Moral Content of Educational Policies?

[Lecture Room 6]

21.45 Bar open

SATURDAY 4 APRIL

8.00

Breakfast
09.00-10.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS II
A

Chair: Richard Davies

JOSH CORNGOLD

Autonomy-Faciliation or Autonomy-Promotion? The Case of Sex Education

JAN W. STEUTEL AND DORET J. DE RUYTER

Compulsory Sex Education: Teaching About the Right and the Good

[Red Room]

B

Chair: Morwenna Griffiths

TONE KVERNBEKK

Evidence-Based Practice: Some Notes

ANDRÉS MEJÍA D.

On Why There is Generalisation in Research on Single Cases

[Chris Cox Room]

C

(WORKSHOPS)

Chair: Ian Munday

BARBARA S. STENGEL

Imagining Emotion as (Mis)Educative: A Deweyan Prompt

SHIRLEY PENDLEBURY

Child-Rearing – An Anxious Educational Practice?

RUTH HEILBRONN

Wigs, Disguises and Child's Play: De Certeau and the Primary Curriculum

[Lecture Room 4]

D

Chair: Richard Smith

JEFF STICKNEY

Foresight Toward Educational Aims and Resources: Dewey, Rancière and Foucault Confront Cyclopean Professional Development

STEPHEN GOUGH AND ANDREW STABLES

Unsurprised by Surprises: Education for Survival in Uncertain Times

[Conduit Room]

E

(SYMPOSIUM)

Chair: Paul Smeyers

STEFAAN E. CUYPERS AND CHRISTOPHER MARTIN

Re-reading R.S.Peters Today

[McGregor-Matthews Room]

F

Chair: Andrew Davis

MICHAEL BONNETT

Schools as Places of Unselving: An Educational Pathology?

DAVID CARR AND PANAGIOTA SIDIROPOULOU

Dangerous Knowledge: On the Epistemic and Moral Significance of Arts in Education

[Lecture Room 6]

10.30 Coffee
11.00

Invited Speaker

HARRY BRIGHOUSE ET AL

Social Justice and Higher Education Subsidies

Chair: Christopher Winch

[Holywell Music Room]

13.00 Lunch
15.30-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS III
A

Chair: Derek Pigrum

NIGEL TUBBS

Modern Liberal Arts

CAROL COLLINS AND SUE KNIGHT

Enlivening the Curriculum: The Power of Philosophical Inquiry

[Red Room]

B

Chair: Mary Healy

KANG ZHAO

Reflexivity in Quest of Identity and Lifelong Learning

RICHARD DAVIES

Collecting Mist, Herding Cats and Student Placements: Hard Work with No Possibility of Success?

[Lecture Room 6]

C

(SYMPOSIUM)

Chair: John White

CLARE SAUNDERS ET AL

The value of higher education: is there a philosophy of higher education?

[Chris Cox Room]

D

Chair: Sharon Todd

PAUL STANDISH

Food for Thought: Resourcing Moral Education

IAN MUNDAY

Derrida, Teaching and the Context of Failure

[Conduit Room]

E

Chair: Marianna Papastephanou

GEORG CAVALLAR

Concentric Circles: Patriotism, Cosmopolitanisms, and Cosmopolitan Education

MICHAEL HAND

Should We Promote Patriotism in Schools?

[Lecture Room 4]

F

(WORKSHOP)

Chair: Gert Biesta

DAVID BRIDGES ET AL.

The voice(s) of philosophy in the conversations of the educational community

[McGregor-Matthews Room]

G

(WORKSHOPS)

Chair: Colin Wringe

ZDENKO KODELJA

Are University Professors Free to Speak Out?

JONES IRWIN

Repositioning Paulo Freire’s Educational Philosophy  - Critical Pedagogy, The Birmingham School and the Problem of Popular Cultural Dissent

[Undercroft]

17.00 Tea
17.30-19.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS IV
A

Chair: Stefaan Cuypers

ROSA HONG CHEN

The Tragic and Education by Virtue of Cathartic Action

AVI I. MINTZ

Socrates and Protagoras against the Sophists in Plato’s Theaetetus

[Red Room]

B

Chair: Paul Standish

DENISE EGÉA-KUEHNE

Levinas’s Impossible Ideal of Education

ANNA STRHAN

The Very Subjection of the Subject: Levinas, Heteronomy and the Philosophy of Education

[Conduit Room]

C

Chair: Eduardo Duarte

KENNETH WAIN

Education as Governance in Rousseau’s Writings: Emile and Beyond

TAL GILEAD

Human Capital, Education and the Promotion of Social Cohesion – A Philosophical Critic

[McGregor-Matthews Room]

D

Chair: Stephen Gough

CATHRINE RYTHER

‘The Possibility of Living Another Life’: Re-imagining Possibility in Radical Pedagogy Through Rancière

NANCY VANSIELEGHEM

No Parent(hood) Left: On the Need for (Governmental) Intervention

[Lecture Room 4]

E

Chair: Andrew Stables

HARVEY SIEGEL

Open-Mindedness, Critical Thinking, and Indoctrination: Homage to William Hare

BEN KOTZEE

Education and ‘Thick’ Epistemology

[Chris Cox Room]

F

Chair: Suzy Harris

NAOMI HODGSON

The Entrepreneurial Self: Accountability, Parrhesia and Sublimation

FIONA BRETTELL

How Heidegger’s Interpretation of Aristotle’s Four Causes Uncovers the Loss of a Vital Element in Current Art Education

[Lecture Room 6]

G

(SYMPOSIUM)

Chair: Padraig Hogan

KARIN MURRIS, JOANNA HAYES, MAUGHN GREGORY, STEVE BRAMALL AND STEVE WILLIAMS

What Philosophy with Children is not: responses to some critics and constructive suggestions for dialogue about the role of P4C in Higher Education

[Undercroft]

19.30 Conference Dinner
21.00

Annual General Meeting of the Society

[Chris Cox Room]

SUNDAY 5 APRIL

8.30 Breakfast
9.30–11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS V
A

Chair: Michael Hand

MARY HEALY

Should We Take the Friendships of Children Seriously?

KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON

Some Aristotelian Reflections on Teachers’ Professional Identities and the Emotional Practice of Teaching

[Red Room]

B

Chair: Naomi Hodgson

NAOKO SAITO

Quiet Desperation, Silent Melancholy: Polemos and Passion in Citizenship Education

SHARON TODD

Can There be Pluralism Without Conflict? Ingesting the Indigestible in Democratic Education

[Chris Cox Room]

C

Chair: Denise Egéa-Kuehne

PAUL MORAN AND MARK MURPHY

Habermas, Pupil Voice, Rationalism, and their Meeting with Lacan’s Objet Petit á

KRASSIMIR STOJANOV

Biographical Learning and Social Transition. The East-European Case

[Lecture Room 4]

D

(SYMPOSIUM)

Chair: Michael Bonnett

INTRODUCTION

EDUARDO DUARTE, GERT BIESTA AND GEOFFREY HINCHLIFFE

Re-Reading Arendt on Education:  Action, Politics And Thinking

[McGregor-Matthews Room]

E

(WORKSHOPS)

Chair: Tone Kvernbekk

TORILL STRAND

Conceptualising Educational Processes: The Role of Peirce’s Later Semiotic

A. S. HENNING

Dull Minds, Inert Knowledge and Undisciplined Youths: A. N. Whitehead on Education

[Lecture Room 6]

F

Chair: Harvey Siegel

JOHN WHITE

Why General Education? Peters, Hirst and History

SUZY HARRIS

The Question of Translation: Internationalisation and the University

[Conduit Room]

11.00 Coffee
11:30

Invited Speaker

MARIANNA PAPSTEPHANOU

The ‘Cosmopolitan’ Self Does her Home-work

Respondent: Paul Standish

Chair: Richard Smith

[Holywell Music Room]

13.00 Lunch

 



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