Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

PESGB Annual Conference

The 2007 PESGB Annual Conference

FRIDAY 30 MARCH

15.45 Tea
[Junior Common Room]
16.45 Invited Speaker
SHARON BAILIN
Culture, Contamination, and Creativity: How Newness Enters the World
Respondent: ROBERT DAVIS
Chair: David Bridges
[Holywell Music Room]
18.15 Reception
[Founders Library]
19.00 Blackwell Dinner
Our thanks to Blackwell for sponsoring this evening's dinner
20.15-21.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS I
A Chair: Paul Smeyers
MONIKA KAMINSKA, THOMAS ALTFELIX
Franz Fischers Philosophy of Education
EDWARD TRESIZE, GERT BIESTA
Can Management Ethics Be Taught Ethically? A Levinasian Exploration
[Lecture Room 4]
B Chair: Patricia White
JIM CONROY
Caught in the Middle: Arendt, Childhood and Responsibility
JUDITH SUISSA
Dulce et Decorum Est&The Missing Ethical Core of Parenting
[Lecture Room 6]
C (WORKSHOPS)
Chair: Jane Green
CARRIE WINSTANLEY
Philosophy with Children and Thinking Skills
STIJN SIECKELINCK
Awakening the Best in Youth: The Importance of Offering Two-Dimensional Ideals in Education
STEIN WIVESTAD
Upbuilding Examples for Adults Close to Children
[Conduit Room]
D Chair: Mike Degenhardt
ILSE GEERINCK
A Vision About the European Union: Being One Without Difference
RAY YOUNIS
Aristotle's Lantern:On Questioning and Perplexity (Some Reflections in the Context of Higher Education in the 21st Century)
[Chris Cox Room]
E Chair: Lars Lovlie
IAN MUNDAY
Passionate Utterance and Moral Education
PAUL STANDISH
Education for Grownups, a Religion for Adults: Skepticism and Alterity in Cavell and Levinas
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
F Chair: Richard Davies
KJERSTI LARSEN
Reconciling Conflicting Ideals - Mission Impossible?
WALTER OKSHEVSKY
From a Transcendental Point of View: Jurgen Habermas and Harvey Siegel on
Justifying Moral and Multicultural Principles
[Red Room]
21.45 Bar open

SATURDAY 31 MARCH

08.00 Breakfast
09.00-10.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS II
A Chair: Nigel Tubbs
RICHARD SMITH
Proteus Rising: re-imagining educational research
LOVISA BERGDAHL
Educating for a World Out of Joint: Challenging Orders and Borders for
Religious Diversity in Liberal Education
[Lecture Room 4]
B Chair: Robert Davis
EDUARDO DUARTE
Con-servative Education
CHIA-LING WANG
Power/Knowledge in Curriculum Theory: Henry Giroux and the Misinterpretation of Michel Foucault
[Red Room]
C (WORKSHOPS)
Chair: Colin Wringe
DENISE ÉGÉA-KUEHNE
The Paradox of the Universal Right to Education
WILFRED CARR, MORWENNA GRIFFITHS, PADRAIG HOGAN
The Study of Education
GEOFF HINCHLIFFE
McDowell and Second Nature an Epistemological Space for the Concept of Learning
[Chris Cox Room]
D Chair: Matthew Clayton
GERT BIESTA
Democracy, Education and the Question of Inclusion
AMRITA ZAHIR
Cultivating Human Agency in a Democracy Rational Actor or Relational
Self? A Comparison of Select Theories of Agency
[Conduit Room]
E (SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: Paul Standish
MICHAEL PETERS, NICHOLAS BURBULES, PAUL SMEYERS
Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
F Chair: Harvey Siegel
HARRY BRIGHOUSE, ELAINE UNTERHALTER
Primary Goods Versus Capabilities: Considering the Debate in Relation to
Equalities in Education
[Lecture Room 6]
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Invited Speaker
DAVID CARR
Character in Teaching
Respondent: CHRISTIANE THOMPSON
Chair: Ieuan Lloyd
[Holywell Music Room]
13.00 Lunch
15.30-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS III
A Chair: Jane Green
JANET ORCHARD
Are the National Standards for Headteachers in England Helpful?
DORET DE RUYTER, JOS KOLE
Ideals of Teachers: A Professional Morality Beyond Competences and Other External Standards
[Lecture Room 4]
B Chair: Sharon Todd
CHRISTIANE THOMPSON
Re-Questing Necessity: Two Analytic Approaches in the Philosophy of
Education
CLAUDIA RUITENBERG
Educating Political Adversaries: Chantal Mouffe and Radical Democratic
Citizenship education
[Red Room]
C (WORKSHOPS)
Chair: Kenneth Wain
TONE KVERNBEKK
Monologues: Worth a Re-evaluation?
DAVID BLACKER
Policy Compatibilism and the Will to Learn
[Conduit Room]
D Chair: Lynndy Levin
AVI MINTZ
Suffering and Social Justice Education
SEAMUS MULRYAN
Death of a Self: True Dialogue and Authentic Existence
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
E Chair: Michael Hand
DARRELL ROWBOTTOM
Theories of Inquiry and Theories of Learning: Whats the Link?
KURT STEMHAGEN
William James, Thomas Kuhn and the Varieties of Scientific Revolution:
Some Epistemological and Educational Implications
[Chris Cox Room]
17.00 Tea
17.30-19.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS IV
A Chair: Jan Derry
DUCK-JOO KWAK
Skepticism and Education: In Search of Another Filial Tie of Philosophy to Education
NAOKO SAITO
Globalization and the Understanding of Other Cultures: Beyond the Limits of Deweyan Democracy
[Lecture Room 4]
B Chair: John White
MICHAEL HAND
The Concept of Intelligence
ANDREW DAVIS
What is the Price of Consistency in Educational Assessment?
[Red Room]
C Chair: Judith Suissa
MICHAEL KATZ
Three Conceptions of Caring and the Teaching of Educational Ethics
KRISTJAN KRISTJANSSON
Self-Esteem, Self-Confidence and Individualised Education
[Conduit Room]
D Chair: Mary Healy
RICHARD BAILEY, ANDREW BLOODWORTH, MICHAEL MCNAMEE
Physical Education, Sport, Well-being
NIGEL TUBBS
From the Philosophy of the Teacher to the Suppressed Concept of the Other in Modernity
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
E Chair: Ruth Cigman
PAULA MCAVOY
Are Arranged Marriages for Teenage Girls Allowed? How Public Schools Should Respond to Illiberal Cultural Practices
BECCA GREEVES
Defending Libertarianism: A Thinking Point For Educationalists
[Chris Cox Room]
19.30 Conference Dinner
21.00 AGM of the Society
[Chris Cox Room]

SUNDAY 1 APRIL

08.30 Breakfast
9.30-11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS V
A Chair: Jürgen Rekus
KRASSIMIR STOJANOV
Bildung as Deontic Scorekeeping? Toward a Social-Pragmatist Approach in
Educational Theory
MOIRA VON WRIGHT
Edification Between Self and the World: Bildung as Resistance rather than a
Commodity
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
B Chair: Louise Bamfield
ANDRES MEJIA
Understanding is Necessary for Critical Thinking - But Also for its Declared
Foe of Uncritical Dogmatic Thinking
NAT COLEMAN
School Choice, School Selection, and Equal Opportunity
[Lecture Room 4]
C Chair: Michael Bonnett
PAUL HAGER
Putting Learning in its Place
ANDREW STABLES
Semiosis, Dewey and Difference
[Red Room]
D Chair: John Gingell
HOWARD CANATELLA
Education Through Art
DEREK PIGRUM
The Ontopology of the Artists Studio as Workplace: Researching the Artists Studio and the Art/Design Classroom
[Conduit Room]
E (WORKSHOPS)
Chair: Tomas Englund
MARTIN GOUGH
Preparing for Academic Practice: But What is it that is Being Prepared For?
PHILIP HIGGS
What is Quality in Higher Education?
DAVID BRIDGES, RICHARD PRING, ALIS OANCEA, LORRAINE
FOREMAN-PECK, PAUL SMEYERS, BRUNO VANNOBERGEN, JANE
MURRAY
Educational Research and Policy: Epistemological Considerations.
[Chris Cox Room]
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Invited Speaker
RANDALL CURREN
Education for Survival: Culture, Curriculum, and Catastrophe in the Twenty-first Century
Respondent: GRAHAM HAYDON
Chair: Jim Conroy
[Holywell Music Room]
13.00 Lunch
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