PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
2003 Annual Meeting
Program (Tentative)
Philosophy of Education Society
59th Annual Meeting
March 28-31, 2003
Royal Palm Crowne Plaza Resort
Miami, Florida
Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
President
Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon
Northwestern University
President-Elect
Francis Schrag
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Immediate Past President
Barbara Houston
University of New Hampshire
Executive Secretary
Kathy Hytten
Southern Illinois University
Executive Board Members
Suzanne Rice (2003)
University of Kansas
Michael Katz (2004)
San Jose State University
Program Committee
Kal Alston, Chair, University of Illinois
Sharon Bailin, Simon Fraser University
Eduardo Duarte, Hofstra University
Stephen Haymes, DePaul University
Chris Higgins, Teachers College, Columbia
Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma
Natasha Levinson, Kent State University
Al Neiman, University of Notre Dame
Stephen Norris, University of Alberta
Tom Schwandt, University of Illinois
Dilafruz Williams, Portland State University
Alternative Sessions
Stacy Smith, Bates College
Arrangements & Hospitality Committee
Harvey Siegel, Miami University
Election Committee
Barb Stengel, Chair, Millersville University
Wally Feinberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Michael Katz, San Jose State University
Deborah Kerdeman, University of Washington
Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma
Kathryn Morgan, University of Toronto
Harvey Siegel, Miami University
Commission on Professional Affairs
Hilary Davis (2003), Chair, York University
Susan Laird (2004), University of Oklahoma
Barbara Applebaum (2005), University of Toronto
Dilafruz Williams (2006), Portland State University
Deborah Kerdeman (2007), University of Washington
Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
Gayle Turner (2004), Chair, Appalachian State University
Gloria Filax (2003), University of Alberta
Stacy Smith (2003), Bates College
Iris Yob (2004), Indiana University
Naoko Saito (2005), University of Tokyo
Membership Committee
Michael Katz (2003), Chair, San Jose State University
Carina Self (2003), University of New Hampshire
Paul Farber (2004), Western Michigan University
Liza Finkel (2004), University of New Hampshire
Chris Higgins (2005), Teachers College, Columbia
Jobs for Philosophers of Education
Barbara Applebaum (2003), Chair, University of Toronto
James Giarelli (2004), Rutgers University
Deborah Kerdeman (2004), University of Washington
Susan Birden (2005), Buffalo State University
Rosalie Romano (2005), Ohio University
Stanton Wortham (2005), University of Pennsylvania
Representatives to CSFE
John Covaleskie (2003), Northern Michigan University
Representatives to the Educational Board of Educational Theory
Karl Hostetler (2003), University of Nebraska
Jana Noel (2003), California State University, Sacramento
Archivist
Christine McCarthy, University of Iowa
Managing Editors of the Yearbook
Diana Dummitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tim McDonough, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Business Manager of Educational Theory
Diane Beckett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Parliamentarian
Allen Pearson, University of Western Ontario
Resolutions Committee
Suzanne Rice, Chair, University of Kansas
Stephen Haymes, DePaul University
Al Neiman, University of Notre Dame
Book Display Coordinator
Jeffrey Milligan, Florida State University
Web Builder
Craig Cunningham, University of Chicago
Sponsors of the 58th Annual Meeting
Miami University
Northwestern University
Annual Meeting Agenda
All Locations are shown in italics
Registration
Friday, March 28th 8am – 12pm
1:30pm – 4:30pm
Saturday, March 29th 8am – 12pm
Book Display
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9am – 5pm
Thursday March 27th
5-7pm Executive Board meeting
TBA
Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
Friday March 28th
9-10:15 First Concurrent Session
A. From Designer Identities to Identity by Design: Educating for Identity De/construction
Respondent: Suzanne Jaeger (University of Central Florida)
Chair: Michael Katz, (San Jose State)
Sunshine
B. Revisiting an Old Predicament: Primacy of the Individual or the Community?
Respondent: Charles Bingham (Simon Fraser University)
Chair: Kathy Hytten (Southern Illinois University)
Ballroom A
C. Positivism, Skepticism, and the Attractions of ‘Paltry Empiricism’: Stanley Cavell and the Current Standards Movement in Education
Speaker: David A. Granger (SUNY -- Geneseo)
Respondent: Deron R. Boyles (Georgia State University
Chair: Tammy Shel (UCLA)
Ballroom B
10:30-11:45 Second Concurrent Session
A. Pluralism, Justice, Democracy and Education: Conflict and Citizenship
Speaker: Ronald David Glass (Arizona State University - West)
Respondent: Dale Snauwaert (Adelphi University)
Chair: Karen Sihra (OISE)
Sunshine
B. Can Rationality Justify Itself?
Speaker: Jon M. Fennell (Independent)
Respondent: Francis K. Schrag (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Chair: Harvey Siegel (University of Miami)
Ballroom A
C. Education’s Hope: Transcending the Tragic with Emerson, Dewey, and Cavell
Speaker: Naoko Saito (University of Tokyo)
Respondent: Al Neiman (Notre Dame University)
Chair: Jeanie Stallman (Illinois College)
Queen
D. “As if we were called”: Responding to (Pedagogical) Responsibility
Speaker: Barbara S. Stengel (Millersville University)
Respondent: Alexander Sidorkin (Bowling Green State University)
Chair: Barbara Applebaum (Syracuse University)
Ballroom B
1:00-2:15pm Alternative Session
A. Author Meets Critics: Rob Reich’s Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
Chair: Randall Curren (University of Rochester)
Participants: Idil Boran (McGill University)
Natasha Levinson (Kent State University)
Respondent: Rob Reich (Stanford University)
Ballroom A
B. Straight Talk to Teachers about Compulsory Heterosexuality: Co-opting William James’s Pragmatism
Presenters:
Susan Birden (Buffalo State College)
Joe Meinhart (University of Oklahoma)
Respondent: Barbara Stengel (Millersville University)
Chair: Iris Yob (Indiana University)
Ballroom B
C. Philosophical Perspectives on Drugs and Education: A Prolegomenon
Participants:
Craig A. Cunningham (University of Chicago)
Al Neiman (Notre Dame University)
Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon (University of Tennessee)
Discussant: Susan Laird (University of Oklahoma)
Chair: Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech University)
Queen
D. A Curriculum for the Post-Apocalyptic
Panel:
Karen Anijar (Arizona State University)
Nicholas Appleton (Arizona State University)
Sarah Brem (Arizona State University)
Jennifer Husman (Arizona State University)
Nicole Teyechea (Arizona State University)
Sunshine
2:45-4:15 General Session
TAKING NARRATIVE SERIOUSLY: EXPLORING THE EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF MYTH AND FICTION
Speaker: David Carr (University of Edinburgh)
Respondent: Susan Laird (University of Oklahoma)
Chair: Deanne Bogdan (OISE)
Ballroom
4:30-6:00 pm George Kneller Lecture
Ballroom
The Idea of Moral Progress: Bush v. Posner v. Berlin
Speaker: Richard A. Shweder
Respondents:
Harvey Siegel (University of Miami)
Kal Alston (UIUC)
Chair: Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern University)
Richard A. Shweder is the William Claude Reavis Professor of Human Development, Department of Psychology, Committee on South Asian Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago. His research is in the area of ethnopsychology and cultural psychology. It includes work in anthropology of thought (cognitive anthropology, culture and thought), cross-cultural human development and culture theory. During the 1999-2000 academic year he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin where he co-edited an issue of the journal Daedalus (Autumn 2000) entitled The End of Tolerance: Engaging Cultural Differences. His recent research examines the scopes and limits of pluralism and the multicultural challenge in Western liberal democracies.
The George Kneller, a long time member and supporter of the Philosophy of Education Society, passed away in 1999. A prodigious writer on a wide range of topics in the philosophy of education, Kneller left a significant legacy to PES as a scholar and teacher. He also left a substantial endowment to the Society to support a lecture at the Annual Meeting.
6-7:30 pm Kneller/New Members Reception
TBA
7-8:30 pm COSW Session
Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
Saturday March 29th
7:30-9 am Breakfasts
Technology SIG breakfast discussion
Theme: A dynamic medium--planning and hosting an 'open web press' for education philosophers throughout the year
Chair: Ames Brown (FDU)
(Location TBA)
Following the Threads from Oslo INPE to Miami PES -- Breakfast Discussion
Theme: Developing a new critical language in education (which will include critical pedagogy, but relating to other critical educational alternatives
Chair: Ilan Gur-Zeev
(Location TBA)
9:00-10:15am Third Concurrent Session
A. Pulled Up Short: Challenges for Education
Speaker: Deborah Kerdeman (University of Washington)
Respondent: Wendy Kohli (Fairfield University)
Chair: Lynda Stone (University of North Carolina)
Ballroom A
B. Not Your Average PTA: Local Education Foundations and the Problems of Allowing Private Funding for Public Schools
Speaker: Emily V. Cuatto (Stanford University)
Respondent: Mark Hicks (George Mason University)
Chair: TBA
Queen
C. The Conditions of Schefflerian Rationality in the Realm of Moral Education
Speaker: Katariina Holma (University of Helsinki)
Respondent: Victor Worsfold (University of Texas at Dallas)
Chair: TBA
Sunshine
10:30-12:00 Past Presidents’ Panel
Except for references to Plato, Dewey and other canonical texts, philosophy of education in North America has a short memory. It is not unusual to read published work that has no references to preceding scholarship in philosophy of education more than a few years old, typically nothing from the 1940s, ‘50s, ‘60s, or ‘70s. Names that were once central to the intellectual vitality of the field -- Komisar, B.O. Smith, Hardie, Crittenden, Broudy, etc. -- are disappearing from the collective memory, rarely if ever showing up in anthologies, course syllabi, or encyclopedia articles.
Is this because of a lack of philosophical substance in these authors? Is it because the field is continually trying to reinvent itself? Is it because educational issues of relevance change? Or does it say something else about our discipline?
How can philosophy of education maintain a better sense of its own traditions, thinking of philosophical changes as developments within a continued conversation, not as discontinuous revolutions in which all that has come before must be overthrown?
Panelists:
Clive Beck (OISE/University of Toronto)
Denis Phillips (Stanford University)
Emily Robertson (Syracuse University)
Jonas Soltis (Teachers College – Columbia)
Chair: Nick Burbules (University of Illinois)
Ballroom
12-1 COSW lunch/meeting
1:00-2:15 Fourth Concurrent Session
A. Radicalizing Democratic Education Unity and Dissent in Wartime
Speaker: Sigal R. Benporath (Princeton University)
Respondent: Heather M. Voke (Georgetown University)
Chair: Barbara Thayer-Bacon (University of Tennessee)
Ballroom A
B. Resisting the Pedagogical Domestication of Cosmopolitanism: From Nussbaum’s Concentric Circles of Humanity to Derrida’s Aporetic Ethics of Hospitality
Speaker: Zelia Gregoriou (University of Cyprus)
Respondent: TBA
Chair: Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech University)
Ballroom B
C. Dirty Hands in Classrooms
Speaker: Rebecca Lewis (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Respondent: Virginia Worley (Oklahoma State University)
Chair: Barbara Houston (University of New Hampshire)
Sunshine
D. Data, Phenomena and Theory: How Clarifying the Concepts Can Illuminate the Nature of Science and Science Education Research
Speaker: Michael R. Matthews (University of New South Wales)
Respondent: Clare Leonard (University of Colorado)
Chair: TBA
Queen
2:30-3:45 Fifth Concurrent Session
A. The Path of Social Amnesia and Dewey’s Democratic Commitments
Speaker: Frank Margonis (University of Utah)
Respondent: Nakia S. Pope (University of Virginia)
Chair: Ronald Glass (Arizona State University - West)
Ballroom A
B. On the Learning of Responsibility: A Conversation between Carol Gilligan and John Dewey
Speaker: Colette Gosselin (Wagner College)
Respondent: Ann Diller (University of New Hampshire)
Chair: Iris Yob (Walden University)
Ballroom B
C. The Failure of Critical Thinking: Considering Virtue Epistemology as a Pedagogical Alternative
Speaker: Emery J. Hyslop-Margison (Ball State University)
Respondent: Sharon Bailin (University of British Columbia)
Chair: Robert Floden (Michigan State University)
Sunshine
D. Paley’s Paradox: Educating for Democratic Life
Speaker: John F. Covaleskie (Northern Michigan University)
Respondent: Walter Okshevsky (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Chair: Gayle Turner (Appalachian State University)
Queen
4:15-5:30 Invited Panel - A PES Response to Richard Shweder
Panelists:
Stanton Wortham, Chair (University of Pennsylvania)
Leonard Waks (Temple University)
Cris Mayo (UIUC)
Robert Reich (Stanford University)
Walter Feinberg (UIUC)
Ballroom
5:30-6:45 COPA Session
Ballroom
What Do Philosophers & Educators Have to Speak About?
(A continuation of the symposium in Educational Theory)
Panelists:
Mordechai Gordon (Brooklyn College)
Rene Arcilla (New York University)
5:30 Aesthetics SIG Meeting (Dinner, location to be announced)
Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
Sunday March 30th
9-10:15 Sixth Concurrent Session
A. Mutual Understanding: The Basis of Respect…and Ethical Education
Speaker: Robert Kunzman (Stanford University)
Respondent: Randall Curren (University of Rochester)
Chair: Justen Infinito (Ball State University)
Ballroom A
B. Education for Autonomy, Education for Culture:
The Case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in
Speaker: Dana Howard (Stanford University)
Respondent: Natasha Levinson (Kent State University)
Chair: Suzanne Rosenblith (Clemson University)
Queen
C. Natality Seduced Lyotard’s Differend and the Birth of the Improbable
Speaker: Stephanie Mackler (Teachers College, Columbia University)
Respondent: James Palermo (Buffalo State University)
Chair: Nicholas Appleton (Arizona State)
D. “National Standards” v. The Free Standards of Culture: Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy and Contemporary Educational Philistinism
Speaker: Bruce Novak (University of Chicago)
Respondent: Ames Brown III (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
Chair: Christine McCarthy (University of Iowa)
Ballroom B
10:45-12:15 Presidential Address
Preparing to Turn the Soul: Toward a Philosophy of Listening in a Democratic Society
Speaker: Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern University)
Respondents:
Nel Noddings (Stanford University)
David Hansen (Teachers College – Columbia)
Chair: Kal Alston (University of Illinois)
Ballroom
12:15-1:45 President’s Luncheon
2-3:15 Seventh Concurrent Session
A. Anti-Racist Work Zones
Speaker: Audrey Thompson (University of Utah)
Respondent: Stephen Haymes (DePaul University)
Chair: Mark Hicks (George Mason University)
Ballroom A
B. “ A Humean Model of Democratic Reasonableness”
Speaker: David Blacker (University of Delaware)
Respondent: Rene Arcilla (New York University)
Chair: Christopher Higgins (Teachers College, Columbia)
Queen
C. Religious Diversity, Education and the Concept of Separation: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
Speaker: Jeffrey Ayala Milligan (Florida State University)
Respondent: Lorraine Kasprisin (Western Washington University)
Chair: TBA
Ballroom B
3:30-5:00 Second General Session
Young Patriots or Junior Historians? An Epistemological Perspective on the Problem of Patriotic Education
Speaker: Jon Levisohn (Brandeis University)
Respondent: Jim Giarelli (Rutgers University)
Chair: Nicholas Burbules (UIUC)
Ballroom
Sunday March 30 5:15-6:30 Alternative Sessions
A. Starting at Home: Caring and Public Policy”- A Panel Discussion of Nel Noddings’ recent book
Speaker:
Chair: Michael S. Katz (San Jose State University)
Panelists: Barbara Houston (University of New Hampshire)
Lynda Stone (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Michael S. Katz (San Jose State University)
Respondent: Nel Noddings (Emeritus Professor, Stanford)
Ballroom
B. Over-used Philosophical Concepts and Diversity
Panelists:
Suzanne de Castell (Simon Fraser University)
Jennifer Jenson (York University)
Stephanie Foote (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Cris Mayo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Queen
6:30-7:30 Presidential Reception
Ballroom
7:30-8:30 Business Meeting
Ballroom
Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
Monday March 31st
8:00-9:30 Executive Board Meeting
TBA
9:00-10:15 Eighth Concurrent Session
A. Responding to the Bottomlessness of Human Being
Speaker Jim Garrrison (Virginia Tech)
Respondent: Maureen Ford (OISE)
Chair: Eduardo Duarte (Hofstra University)
Ballroom A
B. Toward a Pragmatic/Contextual Philosophy of Mathematics: Recovering Dewey’s Psychology of Number
Speaker: Kurt Stemhagen (University of Virginia)
Respondent: Inna Semetsky (Teachers College, Columbia)
Chair: Scott Johnston (UIUC)
Princess
C. A Consideration of Inclusion
Speaker: Paul S. Collins (University of Rochester)
Respondent: Suzanne Rice (University of Kansas)
Chair: Dwight Boyd (OISE)
Ballroom B
10:45-12 Third General Session
"On Pragmatism and the Consequences of Multiculturalism"
Speaker: Haithe Anderson (Bowling Green)
Respondent: Maureen Stout (Simon Fraser University)
Chair: Karim Dharamsi (University of Winnipeg)
Ballroom
Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday
CONTACT: PES Executive Cris Mayo
217-333-3673; cmayo@illinois.edu