Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

Previous Conference Programmes and Meetings

13 April 1994 Eamonn Callan:  Political Liberalism and Political Education 
27 April 1994 Peter Woolcock:  False Consciousness, Education and the Assault on Agency: a liberal critique of critical theory and post-structuralism
5 July 1994  Shirley Pendlebury: 
Striking a Balance: practical wisdom and agency
16/17 Sep 1994

Annual Residential Conference 1994

David Carr: Knowledge and Truth in Religious Education
Victor Quinn: Children, Magic and Philosophy
Paul H Hirst: Reconceptualising the Curriculum: from knowledge to practices - an apologia
Joseph Dunne: Some Educationally Significant Themes from "Back to the Rough Ground"
Ruth Merrtens: The Ethical Implications of Records of Achievement and School Assessments

2 Nov 1994 Mark Chater:  Beyond Confessionalism and Non-Confessionalism:
re-examining the rationale for religious education
24 Nov 1994 Paul Smeyers:  Our Knowledge of Parents Intentions: a Wittgensteinian perspective
24 May 1995  Lars Lovlie:  German Idealism and Education
8 Jun 1995 Dawn Muir:  Relationships and Education: Modernist Dilemmas and Socratic Alternatives
29 Jun 1995 Mike Newby:  Educational Action Research as a Destroyer of Meaning
15 - 16 Sep 1995

Annual Residential Conference 1995 



Penny Enslin: Education, and the Family as a Private Sphere
David Best: The Arts, Spirituality and Education
David Best: The Rationality of Artistic Feeling
Meira Levinson: Liberalism versus Democracy? Schooling Private Citizens in the Public Square
Carole Cox: Whatever Happens Write it Down: The Intrusion of Documentation in the Teacher/Pupil Relationship
26 Oct 1995 Fred Inglis:  History, Biography and the Idea of a Liberal Education
20 Nov 1995 Kevin Mott-Thornton:  Education, Spirituality and Transcendence
19 Feb 1996 John Beck:  Nation, Curriculum and Identity in Conservative Cultural Analysis
6 Mar 1996 Terry McLaughlin:  Beyond the Reflective Teacher
22 May 1996 Terry McLaughlin and Palmira Juceviciene:  Education, Democracy and the Formation of National Identity: a 
Lithuanian Perspective
27 Jun 1996 Howard Cannatella:  Imaginative Experience and Understanding: a Kantian approach to art and design teaching
20/21 Sep 1996

Annual Residential Conference 1996

Andrew Davis: Assessment, Accountability and Transfer
Tone Kvernbekk: On Educational Theory
Paul Standish: Learning by Heart
Anne Astwood: Phronesis as an Aim of Education
John Sullivan: A Perspective on the Moral Dimension of 
School Leadership

4 Dec 1996 Nigel Blake:  Educational Crisis and the Roots of Postmodernism
30 Jan 1997 Henry Tam:  Education for Citizens
22 April 1997 Mike Golby: Should Schools Seek to Achieve Communitarian Aims?
5 Jun 1997 Shirley Pendlebury: Feminism, Knowledge and Education
26 Jun 1997 Sharon Bailin: The Problem with Percy: epistemology, understanding and critical thinking
19/20 Sep 1997

Annual Residential Conference 1997

David Bridges: Educational Research for Sale: moral market or moral maze?
John Halliday: Technicism and the Reflective Practice of Teaching
Michael Fielding: Achieving Community: beyond the impotence and importance of politics
Terry McLaughlin: Sex Education, Moral Controversy and the Common School
Armande Robinson: Education and the British Child: challenging concepts of national identity

5 Nov 1997 Colin Wringe:  Education for Citizenship Beyond the Nation State: Europe and the world
27 Nov 1997 Mary Earl:  Narrative and the Development of Values
19 Mar 1998 Terry McLaughlin:  Anxieties About Open-Mindedness
31 Mar 1998 Wilna Meijer: The Image of the Human Being in Islamic and 
Secular Humanistic Educational Thought
18 May 1998  Roger Cheng:  The Practical Knowledge of Reflective Teachers
28 May 1998 Dianne Bogdan:  Music Performance as Embodied Listening: Towards an Ethic of Intersubjectivity
11/12 Sep 1998

Annual Residential Conference 1998

Andrew Davis: Philosophical Models of Assessment
John Gingell: Philosophical Modes of Assessment:
A reply to Andrew Davis
James Tooley: What's Wrong with Educational Research?
Marianne Talbot: Against Relativism in Moral Education
Karin Murris: Can Children Do Philosophy?

17 Nov 1998 Charles Bailey:  On Being Puzzled
30 Nov 1998 Kenneth Strike:  Justice and Caring: In Defence of Moral 
Pluralism
11 Feb 1999 Winifred Lamb:  'The Whole Child' in Education
24 March 1999 Walter Okshevsky: How to Beg the Question in Moral and Not Get Away With It
11 May 1999 Christopher Winch:  Values and Empirical Educational Research:
A Philosophical Defence of Empirical Research in Education
2 June 1999 Tom D'Andrea: 
Alasdair MacIntyre and the Relativist 
Challenge
17/18 Sep 1999

Annual Residential Conference 1999

David Bridges and Terry McLaughlin: Lessons to be Learnt about
Education in Values
Richard Pring: A Pre-Modernist Attempt to Understand
A Post-Modernist Critique of Educational
Research
Nicholas Burbules: Education and Global Community
Nicholas Burbules: Universities in Transition: The Promise and Challenge of New Technologies
Graham Haydon: The Moral Agenda of Citizenship Education

29 Feb 2000 Mike Bonnett:  Environmental Concern and the 
Metaphysics of Education
16 Mar 2000 William Hare:  Reflections on the Teachers Task
6 June 2000 Gert Biesta On Being With Others:  The Difficulty of 
Pedagogy as the Difficulty of Politics
29 July 2000 Richard Barrett: Market Arguments, Autonomy , Advertising
and Children 
15/16 Sep 2000

Annual Residential Conference 2000

Andrew Davis: Effective Teaching: Some Contemporary
Mythologies
Carole Cox: Murder Fiction and Moral Education
David Carr: Moral Education and the Hazards of 
Developmentalism
James Tooley: Against Citizenship Education
Rowena Passy Family Values and Education

14 Nov 2000  Maria Victoria Costa:  Moral and Civic Education in Pluralistic and Democratic Societies: the case of Argentina
29 Nov 2000 Michael Bonnett and Stefaan Cuypers:  Autonomy and Authenticity in Education 
6 March 2001 Christine Doddington: Personal Involvement in Learning: can the Arts Perform?
31 May 2001 Zdenko Kodelja: The Limits of Toleration in Education:
some examples
14 June 2001 David Blacker:  Democratic Education and Civic Friendship
21/22 Sep 2001 

Annual Residential Conference 2001

Michael Bonnett: Nature, ICT and the Human Spirit: whither
education?
Tone Kvernbekk: Insiders and Outsiders in Educational Research
Penny Enslin: Liberal Education: a threat to diversity?
Richard Smith: Education and the Ethics of Self-Esteem
Dennis Cato: On the Trivial and the Radical: is there a 
coherent constructivist epistemology?

29 October 2001 Jim Marshall:  Foucault, Education and the Self
6 November 2001 Harry Brighouse:  A Liberal Response to Citizenship Education
29 January 2002 Peter Huckstep:  Justifying Compulsory Education in 
Mathematics for All
7 February 2002 Naoko Saito:  Education for Global Understanding:
learning from Dewey's visit to Japan
25 February 2002 Sharon Bailin:  Spirituality without Spirit?
11 June 2002  Kristjan Kristjansson:  The Development of Children's Justice
Conceptions and the Unavoidability of the 
Normative
20/21 Sep 2002

Annual Residential Conference 2002

John White: New Light on Personal Well Being and 
Education
Andrew Davis: Do Teachers Need Brain Science?
James Tooley: The Miseducation of Women? Gender, 
Biology and Education
Morwenna Griffiths 
& Maxine Greene: Feminism, Philosophy and Education
Michael Hand: Religious Upbringing Reconsidered