Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Annual Conference Programme 1999

Friday
Bernard Crick 
(Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of London)
"The Presuppositions of Citizenship Education"
Alven M. Neiman (University of Notre Dame) "Self Examination, Philosophical Education, and Spirituality"
Saturday
Paul Hager "Know-How and Workplace Practical Judgement"
David Beckett  "Workplace Learning as Postmodernist Enactment: A Model from Dementia" 
Colin Wringe "The diversity of moral education"
Sheryle Bergmann Drewe "The Fundamental Role of Moral Education in Physical Education" 
Mike McNamee "Guilty Knowledge, Whistleblowing and Educational Research" 
David Bridges  "Educational research: pursuit of truth or flight into fancy?" 
Ruth Jonathan, Terry McLaughlin  with responses by Wally Feinberg  "A discussion of Wally Feinberg's book" 
Anneke C.J. de Wlofe, Doret J. De Ruyter, Siebren Miedema "Denominational schools: the gap between theory and practise" 
Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith, Paul Standish Raising Standards: education in an age of nihilism" 
Freida Heyting "Constructivist foundational research on children's rights to decide" 
Gabriela Tymowski  "Children and the Appropriateness of Rights-based Theories" 
Oliver Mills "Spirituality and education: Epistemology as ethic"
David Smith "Secularism, religion and spiritual development"
David Blacker "Liberalism and the Provision of Education"
Kevin McDonough "The Cultural Bases of self-respect, Narrative Imagination and Educational policy in Democratic Societies"
Maughn Gregory  "An epistemology of intuition"
Stefan Ramaekers "Nietzsche's 'lying' and its implications for education" 
Howard Cannatella "Problems in Art Assessment"
Ian McPherson  "Minding qualities of mind: becoming better learners and teachers" 
John White "The Value of Education: a Reply to Andrew Reid" 
J.R.Muir "Ancient Philosophical Arguments for the Equal Education of Women; Notes on Musonious Rufus" 
David Bensusan "Flying kites on the moon; the case for objectivity in education" 
Torill Strand  "Paradoxes in Pierre Bourdeiu's Sociology of Knowledge" 
Andrew Stables and William Scott "Post-humanist liberal pragmatism? Environmental education out of modernity" 
Jeffrey Morgan "On the Best Use of Leisure"
Andrew Davis  "Prescribing teaching methods"
Vilia Velikova "Education of the complete human being"
John Colbeck "The haunting ignorance of Socrates; Awareness of ignorance as motivation to learn" 
Walter Feinberg "On the idea of Self Development"
Micheal Peters "Writing the Self: Wittgenstein, Confession and Pedagogy" 
Lars Lovlie "The internet and rewriting self"
Ilan Gur-Ze'ev "Cyberfeminism and Education in the Era of the Exile of Sprit" 
Astrid Grude Eikseth "Dewey's perspectives on knowledge and experience, a contribution to understand teachers' practical knowledge" 
Jan Masschelein "Can education still be critical? Some remarks on the 'other' value of knowledge, science and technology" 
Mark Mason  "Teachers as critical mediators of knowledge"
Joe Roe  "Teachers as professionals; mapping the domain"
Sunday
John A Codd Social Capital and education policy in New Zealand: Adam Smith rediscovered" 
Penny Enslin  "Citizenship and myth: educational implications of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission" 
David Blacker "Pluralism and the Relative Autonomy of Education"
John Wilson  "Equality & Justice revisited"
Susan Pollock "Health Education or Health Promotion : What's in a name?" 
Richard Davies "Citizenship Education: What can be learnt from other subjects?" 
Kevin Williams "Literary Truth and Educational Discourse"
Tone Kvernbekk "The particularities of narrative descriptions"
Richard Smith (University of Durham)  "Paths of judgement: the revival of practical wisdom"