Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Annual Conference Programme 2001

* Workshop

Friday 6th April 2001
15.45 Coffee
16.45-18.15

Invited Speaker

David T Hansen
Person, Conduct and Sensibility in Teaching

18.15 Reception
19.15 Dinner
20.15-21.45

Invited Speaker

Jane O'Dea
Youthful Violence and the Quest for Identity in a Media-Saturated Age: Unsettling Thoughts for Educators

   
Saturday 7th April 2001
08.00 Breakfast
09.00-10.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

COLIN WRINGE 
Is there spirituality? Can it be part of education?

SHI ZHONGYING * 
Democracy, knowledge and education 

B

HARVEY SIEGEL 
Multiculturalism and 'universalism' in science education

DENISE EGEA-KUEHNE 
The commodification of knowledge: ethico-political issues and re-thinking the nature of knowledge 

C

HOWARD CANNATELLA 
Creativity and education 

CHRISTINE DODDINGTON 
Space for personal involvement in learning: can the arts perform? 

D

INNA SEMETSKY 
Dewey, Deleuze and the dynamics of communication 

ROBERT HESLEP 
The importance of communicative commonality for teaching 

E

NASH POPOVIC 
An outline of a new model of personal education 

RUTH CIGMAN 
Self-esteem and the confidence to fail 

10.30 Coffee
11.00-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

HARRY BRIGHOUSE
Can liberalism acknowledge parental rights (over children)? 

ROB REICH 
Testing the boundaries of parental authority over education: the case of homeschooling 

B

RUTH IRWIN 
Technology, Being and education: questioning Heidegger 

MICHAEL PETERS 
Heidegger, education and modernity 

C

SIGNE SANDSMARK & OTHERS * 
A discussion of Signe Sandsmark's book 'Is World View Neutral Education Possible and Desirable'? 

DORET DE RUYTER
The right to meaningful education and education of a conception of the good 

D

BEN WILLEM POSTMA 
Taking the future seriously: on the inadequacies of the liberal framework for environmental education

CHRIS HIGGINS & RENE ARCILLA * 
What is the place of liberal learning in progressive teacher education? 

E

SOPHIE ANDRESON & DANIEL TROEHLER 
The cult of childhood: deconstruction of a myth by historical reconstruction 

MARIA GARCIA AMILBURU * 
The hermeneutic turn in philosophy of education 

13.00 Lunch

15.30

Coffee
16.00-17.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

ANDREW DAVIS 
Luck and tests 

DEREK SANKEY 
Minds, brains and the concept of understanding in education 

B

JOHN WILSON 
The core of moral education: understanding and the golden rule 

PATRICIA WHITE 
What should we teach children about forgiveness? 

C

TINA BESLEY 
Foucauldian influences in the turn to narrative therapy 

TONE KVERNBEKK 
'After the fact': some notes on narrative configuration 

D

JAMES TOOLEY & HARRY BRIGHOUSE * 
Choice and privatisation: the debate continues

JOHN WHITE 
Education, well being and the market 

E

ROBERT WILLMOTT 
New Labour, school effectiveness and ideological commitment 

RON COLLIER 
Knowledge, belief and consciousness: a search for a social reality 

17.30 AGM of the Society
20.15-21.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

FRIEDA HEYTING, CHRISTOPHER WINCH AND OTHERS * 
The role of critique in philosophy of education: its subject matter and its ambiguities 

OLIVER MILLS 
Who is a philosopher of education? 

B

DAVID BRIDGES 
The ethics of outsider research 

BERT LAMBEIR * 
Waiting on the web 

C

ZDENKO KODELJA 
Does the Convention on the Rights of the Child limit parental rights to educate their children in accordance with their own religious and philosophical convictions? 

BEN SPIECKER & JAN STEUTEL 
Is a traumatic childhood just another abuse excuse? 

D

LARS LOVLIE 
The promise of Bildung 

PADRAIG HOGAN & TERRY McLAUGHLIN * 
Educational practice in the wake of modernity 

E

BEN ENDRES * 
Arrogant perception and moral respect 

MIKE KISSACK 
Ethical substance, modes of subjection and askesis: techniques of the self in multicultural education 

Sunday 8th April 2001 
8.30 Breakfast
9.30-11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

GERT BIESTA, DENISE EGEA-KUEHNE, ZELIA GREGORIOU, MICHAEL PETERS, & PAUL STANDISH 
Derrida and education (panel presentation) 

B

NEETHA RAVJEE 
Democracy, difference and recognition in curriculum: alternatives to Taylor's theory of recognition 

DUCK JOO-KWAK 
Reconsideration of Rorty's view of the liberal ironist as the post-modern ideal of the educated

C

CLARENCE JOLDERSMA 
Beyond: towards a precarious pedagogy 

STEPHEN DOBSON 
Translation, pedagogy and the destructive character 

D

KYRIAKI DOUMAS 
Plato and the pedagogical dimension of eros 

IAN McPHERSON 
'Summoned by bells'?: Education and time. The resourcefulness of time and the reverberations of learning, teaching and responsibility 

E

PENNY ENSLIN &SHIRLEY PENDLEBURY*
Education, connectivity and the spheres of justice 

CLAUDIO OSCAR AMOR * 
Is it just to give educational opportunities to the most endowed? 

11.00 Coffee
11.30-12.30

Invited Speaker

Larry Blum
Recognition and Multi-Culturalism in Education

13.00 Lunch