Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Annual Conference Programme 2002

* Indicates workshop or work in progress

Friday 5th April 2002
15.45 Tea
16.45-18.15

Invited Speaker

TIM OATES, Director of Research, Qualifications and Curriculum Agency
The limits of public policy: affecting change in identity formation in young people
Chair: NIGEL BLAKE

18.15 Reception
19.00 Dinner
20.15-21.30

INVITED SPEAKER
PAUL STANDISH. University of Dundee
In her own voice: convention, conversion, criteria
Chair: PAT WHITE

   
Saturday 6th April 2002
08.00 Breakfast
09.00-10.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

STEFAAN CUYPERS
The concept of truth in educational theory

SHERRILL CONROY
Matching philosophy and method in educational research

B

CHRIS DODDINGTON
How should we think of a school?

JAN STEUTEL AND BEN SPIEKER
Upbringing: an analysis of a neglected concept

C

SHIRLEY PENDLEBURY AND PENNY ENSLIN
Virtues and vices in a new democracy: moral education after apartheid

TINA BESLEY
Social education and mental hygiene: Foucault, disciplinary technologies and the moral constitution of youth

D

IAN MCPHERSON
Education, ethics and nihilism: towards inheritance and originality

NAOKO SAITO
Emersonian perfectionist education in an age of nihilism: transcending the tragic with Emerson and Cavell

E

NESTA DEVINE
Catallactics : Hayek's 'evolutionary' theory of economics applied to public policy and education through competition and market forces

JEFF LEWIS
Jurassic management: managerialism, positivism and the sacred in education*

10.30 Coffee
11.00-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

TONE KVERNBEKK
On the alleged superiority and convincing power of narratives

DAVID BRIDGES
'Fiction written under oath?' Ethics, epistemology and educational research

B

MIKE DEGENHARDT
Should philosophy express the self?

MICHELLE FORREST
Conceptual inquiry as art: case studies for educators*

C

LEONIE LE SAGE
Moral judgement, responsibility and the concept of morality

COLIN WRINGE
The 'dragon of relativism', ethical theory and moral education*

D

ILAN GUR-ZEEV
The end of academia after 11th September - a philosophical viewpoint*

HEATHER BRUNSKELL-EVANS
The personal, political and ethical issues in exercising agency as a teacher in a new university*

E

JOHN WHITE
The individual and society: five critical stances towards liberal philosophy of education

DAVID BLACKER
Reason and passion in democratic education: an analogy with Hume

F STEFAN RAMAEKERS AND PAUL SMEYERS
You know what we mean, don't you! Wittgenstein and seeing unavoidable aspects in educational relationships

HOWARD CANNATELLA
Educational reflections on Nietzsche's life, tragedy and art 

13.00 Lunch

15.30

Meeting for doctoral students and others to consider a possible pre-conference event for doctoral students in 2003
16.00-17.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

ROEL VAN GOOR
Beyond prescription: towards a new normativity in philosophy of education in times of epistemological uncertainty

MICHAEL PETERS
Truth telling as an educational practice of the self

B

KATHRIN AUDEHM
Language, rituals and power: education as performative magic

STEPHEN DOBSON
A pedagogy of moods - towards a framework of research inspired by the work of Martin Heidegger

C

MARK MASON
The ethics of cosmopolitan citizenship education in a globalized world

MUNA GOLMOHAMAD
Citizenship: is there a need for a more substantive discourse and a new mindset?*

D

RICHARD SMITH, NIGEL BLAKE, PAUL SMEYERS AND PAUL STANDISH
The therapy of education
(Double paper)

E

ALAN SCOTT
Who owns the problem? What prison theatre reveals about individual responsibility and social causation.

MORWENNA GRIFFITHS AND DEBORAK CHETCUTI
Ordinary difference, student self-esteem and achievements in school

F GERT VREEKE
Children at risk: a base for measures

ZDENKO KODELJA
Can punishment of innocent pupils be morally justified?

17.30 AGM of the Society
19.00 Dinner
20.15-21.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A

MICHAEL BONNETT
Nature, ICT and the human spirit: whither education?

JAMES ACZEL
Does epistemology matter for educational practice?

B

GEOFF HINCHCLIFFE
Situating skills

JOHN HALLIDAY AND PAUL HAGER
Context, judgement and learning

C

KATSUSHIGE KATAYAMA
Is the virtue approach to moral education viable in a plural society?

WALTER OSHEVSKY
David Carr's virtue ethics and moral education: situating the Kantian reply

D

JEFFREY MORGAN
Friendship in higher education

YU-CHUNG LIU
What is the place of the individual in the world? The contrast between Chinese and Western philosophy*

E

INNA SEMTESKY
Continuities: Dewey, Deleuze and the possibility of spiritual education
ZELIA GREGORIOU
Performing pedagogy with Deleuze: the rhizomatics of 'theory of education'

Sunday 7th April 2002
8.30 Breakfast
9.30-10.45

Invited Speaker

HERBERT DREYFUS, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkeley
How far can distance learning take us?

With a response by NIGEL BLAKE

Chair: DAVID BRIDGES

11.15-12.45

PARALLEL SESSIONS

A

MARTIN GOUGH
Identity as a wider benefit of learning

RAFAL GODON
Understanding, personal identity and education

B

ANDREW DAVIS
Learning and the social nature of mental powers

DAVID BECKETT
Inferential understanding at work

C

JOHAN DE JONG AND GER SNIK
Why should states fund denominational schools?

ANNELIES BORST
The right to freedom of education: an obstacle for civic education?*

D

RUTH IRWIN
The risk of thinking

JAMES CONROY AND DORET DE RUYTER
Borderlands: on education and liminality

E HANS VAN CROMBRUGGE
The Ladies' Library: Rousseau revisited

KARIN MURRIS
Opening up the space for children's philosophical thinking*

13.00 Lunch