Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

PESGB Annual Conference

The 2008 PESGB Annual Conference

FRIDAY 28 MARCH

15.45 Tea
[Junior Common Room]
16.45 Invited Speaker
DAVID BAKHURST
Respondent: ANDREW DAVIS
Chair: David Bridges
[Holywell Music Room]
18.15 Reception
[Founder's Library]
19.00 Blackwell Dinner
Our thanks to Blackwell for sponsoring this evening's dinner
20.15-21.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS I
A Chair: Karin Murris
COLIN WRINGE
Teaching Learning and Discipleship
LARS LØVLIE
The Pedagogical Paradox and its Relevance for Education
[Conduit Room]
B Chair: Christopher Winch
CHRIS MARTIN
The Public Discourse of the Unlimited Communication Community: Joining in on a "Rescuing Critique" of R.S. Peters' Ethics and Education
STEFAAN CUYPERS
Scepticism about the Aims of Education
[Lecture Room 4]
C (WORKSHOPS)
Chair: Harry Brighouse
YUSEF WAGHID
Madrassahs and the (Im)Possibility of Violent Action
BEN KOTZEE
Who May Participate in Debates about Educational Justice?
LIAM GEARON
A Liberal Autocracy? Does Citizenship Education have Totalitarian Tendencies?
[Chris Cox Room]
D Chair: Suzy Harris
GEOFFREY HINCHLIFFE
Towards Re-thinking Graduate Employability
RICHARD DAVIES
Corseted Curricula: Moving Beyond the Pre-Vocational
[Red Room]
E Chair: Jan Steutel
SHARON JESSOP
Education for Citizenship: An Exploration in the Light of Hannah Arendt’s Notions of Authority and Natality
TRISTAN MCCOWAN
‘Seamless Enactment’: A Response to Curricular Disjunctures in Citizenship Education
[Lecture Room 6]
F (SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: Nigel Tubbs
RUTH CIGMAN, KRISTJAN KRISTJANSSON and RICHARD SMITH
Does Self-esteem Matter in Education?
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
21.45 Bar open

SATURDAY 29 MARCH

08.00 Breakfast
09.00-10.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS II
A Chair: Colin Wringe
CHIA-LING WANG
What is "Critical" in Critical Ethnography?
MITSUTOSHI TAKAYANAGI
Reading Thoreau’s Walden and Reclaiming Teacher Education
[Red Room]
B (WORKSHOPS)
Chair: Stefaan Cuypers
STEFAN RAMAEKERS and JUDITH SUISSA
Being a Parent: From Practice to Profession
KATSURA SAITO
Language Minority Students, Identity and Parental Involvement
TONE KVERNBEKK
Collective Memory And Education: Some Notes
[Lecture Room 4]
C Chair: Lars Lovlie
NIGEL TUBBS
Education (Recollection) in Hegel’s History of Philosophy
IAN MACMULLEN
Civic Education and Political Authority
[Conduit Room]
D (SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: Christine Winter
ANDREW STABLES, HANAN ALEXANDER, TOMAS ENGLUND, STEPHEN GOUGH and CHRISTOPHER WINCH
Sustainability And Security Within Liberal Societies: Learning To Live With The Future
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
E Chair: Paul Standish
ANDREW DAVIS
Ian Hacking, Learning Disabilities and Human Taxonomies
PAUL GIBBS
Workplace learning: a case for Researchers’ Gratitude
[Lecture Room 6]
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Invited Speaker
CHRIS WINCH
Respondent: Geoff Hinchcliffe
Chair: Chris Smith
[Holywell Music Room]
13.00 Lunch
15.30-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS III
A Chair: Michael Bonnett
ANNA STRHAN
Love Thy Neighbour: The Provocation of Proximity for Education
RON BEST
In Defence of the Concept of ‘Spiritual Education’: a Reply to Roger Marples
[Red Room]
B Chair: Geof Hinchliffe
HARRY BRIGHOUSE and PAULA MCAVOY
Privilege, Wellbeing, and Participation in Higher Education
SUZY HARRIS
Translation and Transformation in Higher Education
[Lecture Room 6]
C (WORKSHOPS)
Chair: Richard Davies
PAUL THOMSON
Philosophy in a New York City Secondary School
MILAN JAROS
To Thing or not to Thing: Pedagogy of Knowledge Acquisition in the Networked Society
[Chris Cox Room]
D Chair: Paul Smeyers
MICHAEL S. KATZ
Fairness, Trustworthiness, Integrity and Self-Respect: An Analysis of "The Emperor’s Club"
PAUL HAGER
Refurbishing MacIntyre’s Account of Practice
[Conduit Room]
E Chair: Judith Suissa
MATT FERKANY
The Educational Importance of Self-Esteem
ROD MACKENZIE
Philosophy and Education as Compassion and Wonder
[Lecture Room 4]
F (SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: T.B.C.
BRUCE MAXWELL, MARK HALSTEAD, ÓLAFUR PÁLL JÓNSSON and KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON
Justice and Desert-Based Emotions: Implications for Character and Citizenship Education in the UK and Beyond
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
17.00 Tea
17.30-19.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS IV
A Chair: Rod Mackenzie
CHRISTINE WINTER
Places, Spaces, Holes for Knowing and Writing the Earth: the School Geography Curriculum in England and Derrida’s Khora
RUYU HUNG, ANDREW STABLES and MICHAEL BONNETT
Lost in Space? Located in Place: Geo-phenomenological Exploration and School
[Red Room]
B Chair: Ruth Cigman
CORINNA ELSENBROICH
Well-being and the Conflict of Socialisation
YUKI OHARA
English Education and the Recreation of Self-identity: The Case of "Dalit" Community in India and its Relationship with Upper Caste Communities
[Conduit Room]
C (SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: Sharon Todd
PAUL STANDISH, DAVID BAKHURST and JAN DERRY
The Disenchantment of Education and the Re-Enchantment of the World
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
D Chair: Paul Hager
HORST PFEIFFLE
Knowledge Management
MICHAEL D. WILSON
Applied Virtue Ethics: A Philosophic Perspective on Authentic School Leadership
[Lecture Room 4]
E Chair: Jim Conroy
JAN STEUTEL
Adult-Child Sex and Parental Authority
JORIS VLIEGHE
Judith Butler and the Public Dimension of the Body. A New Perspective on Critical Pedagogy
[Chris Cox Room]
19.30 Conference Dinner
21.00 AGM of the Society
[Chris Cox Room]

SUNDAY 30 MARCH

08.30 Breakfast
9.30-11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS V
A Chair: Richard Smith
NAOKO SAITO
Ourselves in Translation: Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Autobiography
SHARON TODD
Facing Humanity: The Difficult Task of Cosmopolitan Education
[Red Room]
B Chair: Andrew Stables
KARIN SASKIA MURRIS
The Intelligence of Emotions
DUNCAN P. MERCIECA and DANIELA MERCIECA
Working with Children? An Experience of Tiredness and Exhaustion
[Chris Cox Room]
C Chair: Penny Enslin
KRASSIMIR STOJANOV
Which Educational Inequalities are Unjust?
NAOMI HODGSON
Social Justice, Narrative and Power
[Lecture Room 4]
D Chair: Andrew Davis
RICHARD BAILEY
Is Gifted and Talented Education Just?
JENNY STEINNES
Questioning The Genre – The Case Of A Thesis
[McGregor-Matthews Room]
E (WORKSHOPS)
Chair: Michael Hand
MARIT H. HOVEID and HALVOR HOVEID
Imagination in Teacher’s Personal Language Use. Arguments for the Poetic Role of Imagination
PAUL SMEYERS and YUSEF WAGHID
Education and Social Practices: Is a Balance Between Cosmopolitanism and the Cultural Group to Which One Belongs Possible?
[Chris Cox Room]
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Invited Speaker
PENNY ENSLIN
Respondent: Sharon Todd
Chair: David Bridges
[Holywell Music Room]
13.00 Lunch
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