PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
2008 Annual Meeting Program
Thursday -- Friday -- Saturday -- Sunday
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008
Executive Board Meeting, 6 – 9pm
Location: Board Room 201
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008
9:00 – 10:15am Concurrent Sessions I
A Willing Compliance
Author: Charles Howell (Northern Illinois Univ)
Respondent: Alexander Sidorkin (Univ of Northern Colorado)
Chair: Aideen Murphy (Univ of Delaware)
Location: Cambridge A
B Social Experiment Wolves in Social Justice Sheepskins: Defanging Inquisitional Variants of Whiteness Theory via Critical Realism
Author: Steven Mather (Univ of Alberta/NAIT)
Respondent: Barbara Stengel (Millersville Univ)
Chair: Bruce Maxwell (Univ of Montreal)
Location: Crispus Attucks
C Adam Smith and the Stages of Moral Development
Author: Daniel DeNicola (Gettysburg College)
Respondent: Walter Okshevsky (Memorial Univ of Newfoundland)
Chair: Ann Diller (Univ of New Hampshire)
Location: Cambridge B
10:15 – 10:30am Break
10:30 – Noon General Session I
Premodern Postures for a Postmodern Ethics: On Resistant Texts and Moral Education
Author: Ann Chinnery (Simon Fraser Univ)
Respondent: Sharon Todd (Stockholm Univ and Mälardalen Univ)
Chair: Susan Laird (Univ of Oklahoma)
Location: Crispus Attucks
Noon Lunch
12:45 – 2:00pm Topical Conversations
Location: Meet others for conversation at the appointed time at the PES Registration table area; then find a comfortable spot in the lobby or nearby for conversation.
A Facts, Values, Emotions, Evidence and Educational Research
Conveners: Suzanne de Castell (Simon Fraser Univ); Chad Lykins (Vanderbilt Univ); A.G. Rud (Purdue Univ)
B Dissent, Criticism, and Democracy in Schools
Conveners: Mark Jonas (Teachers College, Columbia Univ); Sarah Stitzlein (Univ of New Hampshire)
C State Monopoly, School Choice, and Issues of JusticeConveners: Jonathan Dolle (Stanford Univ); Rebecca Greeves (Univ of Cambridge); Anne Newman (Washington Univ, St. Louis)
D Revisiting Noddings’ Ethics of Care: Relations, Expertise, and Moral ImperativesConveners: Patricia Lowry (Montclair State Univ); Dawn Riley (Skidmore College)
12:45 – 2:00pm Alternative Sessions
A Teaching Ethics to Educators (Ethics SIG)
Panelists: Barbara Houston (Univ of New Hampshire); Randall Curren (Univ of Rochester); Ken Howe (Univ of Colorado, Boulder); Doret de Ruyter (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Discussant: Daniel Vokey (Univ of British Columbia)
Chair: Eamonn Callan (Stanford Univ)
Location: William Dawes B
B School Desegregation and Student Rights: Philosophica Analyses of Recent Supreme Court Decisions
Panelists: Walter Feinberg (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Meira Levinson (Harvard Univ); Matthew Smith (Spencer Foundation); Ken Strike (Syracuse Univ)
Chair: Bryan Warnick (The Ohio State Univ)
Location: Crispus Attucks
C Humanism After Anti-Humanism: Problems and Prospects
Panelists: René Arcilla (New York Univ); Eduardo Duarte (Hofstra Univ); Jim Garrison (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ); Chris Higgins (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Sharon Todd (Stockholm Univ and Mälardalen Univ)
Location: William Dawes A
2:00 – 2:15pm Break
2:15 – 3:30pm Concurrent Sessions II
A Reservations about White Privilege Analysis
Author: Lawrence Blum (Univ of Massachusetts, Boston)
Respondent: Matthew Jackson (Brigham Young Univ)
Chair: Ana Martinez-Aleman (Boston College)
Location: William Dawes B
B The Bonds of Learning: Dialogue and the Question of Human Solidarity
Author: Megan Laverty (Teachers College, Columbia Univ)
Respondent: Suzanne Rice (Univ of Kansas)
Chair: Seamus Mulryan (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Location: Crispus Attucks
C Disestablishment as Legal Paideia: Assessing Michael McConnell’s Educational and Religious Pluralism
Author: Erik Owens (Boston College)
Respondent: Suzanne Rosenblith (Clemson Univ)
Chair: Kevin Gary (Goshen College)
Location: William Dawes A
3:30 – 3:45pm Break
3:45 – 5:15pm General Session Dialogue
Evil and Education
Dialogue Richard Bernstein (New School for Social
Partners: Research) Nel Noddings (Stanford Univ)
Moderator: Audrey Thompson (Univ of Utah)
Chair: Ron Glass (Univ of California, Santa Cruz)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
5:30 – 7:00pm New Member Reception
Location: Molly Pitcher
7:45 – 9:00pm Alternative Sessions
A Sophia and Therapia: Love of Wisdom Begins with Healing
Panelists: Avraham Cohen (City Univ of Seattle); Beatrice Donald (Simon Fraser Univ); Larry Green (Simon Fraser Univ); Barbara Houston (Univ of New Hampshire); Daniel Vokey (Univ of British Columbia)
Chair: Heesoon Bai (Simon Fraser Univ)
Location: William Dawes A
B Self-Formation, Self-Reflection, and Other Selves: Derrida, Gadamer, and Habermas on Education and Identity
Panelists: Chris Hanks (Indiana Univ); Dini Metro-Roland (Indiana Univ); Kris Holland (Indiana Univ)
Location: Crispus Attucks
C Philosophy of Education and Mainstream Philosophy
Panelists: Eamonn Callan (Stanford Univ); Randall Curren (Univ of Rochester); Meira Levinson (Harvard Univ); Harvey Siegel (Univ of Miami)
Chair: Michael Hand (Institute of Education, Univ of London)
Location: William Dawes B
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008
7:30 – 9:00 PES Committee Meetings
A Committee on Professional Affairs (COPA)
Chair: John Covaleskie (Univ of Oklahoma)
Location: Board Room 201
B Committee on the Status of Women (COSW)
Chair: Suzanne Rosenblith (Clemson Univ)
Location: Board Room 204
C Committee on Jobs for Philosophers
Co-Chairs: Peter Giampietro (Appalachian State Univ); Kurt Stemhagen (Virginia Commonwealth Univ)
Location: Cambridge A
D Membership Committee
Chair: Paul Smeyers (Ghent Univ and Univ of Leuven)
Location: Cambridge B
9 – 10:15am Concurrent Sessions III
A Performing Philosophy of Education ‘Whitely’: Reliable Narration as Racialized Practice
Author: Helen Anderson (Univ of Toronto/OISE)
Respondent: Stephen Haymes (DePaul Univ)
Chair: Kelly Ann Kolodny (Framingham State College)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
B Caring and Clapping (with one hand): Towards an Agonistic Progressivism
Author: Chris Higgins(Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Respondent: Rita Manning (California State Univ, San Jose)
Chair: Mordechai Gordon (Quinnipiac Univ)
Location: William Dawes A
C Towards a New ‘Logic’ of Emancipation: Foucault and Rancière
Author: Gert Biesta (Univ of Stirling)
Respondent: Cathrine Ryther (Stockholm Univ)
Chair: Michael McGarry (Univ of Toronto/OISE)
Location: William Dawes B
D The Public Discourse of the Unlimited Communication Community: A Rescuing Critique of R.S. Peters’ Ethics and Education
Author: Chris Martin (Institute of Education, Univ of London)
Respondent: Daniel Vokey (Univ of British Columbia)
Chair: John Covaleskie (Univ of Oklahoma)
Location: Crispus Attucks
10:15 – 10:30am Break
10:30a – 12:30pm Kneller Lecture
Democracy and Education
Author: Richard Bernstein (New School for Social Research)
Respondents: Emily Robertson (Syracuse Univ) and Walter Feinberg (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Chair: Michael Katz (California State Univ, San Jose)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
12:30pm Lunch
12:45 – 2:00p m Topical Conversations
Location: Meet others for conversation at the appointed time at the PES Registration Table area; then find a comfortable spot in the lobby or nearby for conversation.
A Critical Race Theory and Education
Convener: Marjorie O’Loughlin (Univ of Sydney)
B Levinas and the Ethical/Epistemic Responsibility of Hospitality
Convener: Adam Lindsay (Cornell Univ)
12:45 – 2:00pm Authors Meet Critics: Alternative Sessions
A Justice and Equality in Education: A Capability Perspective on Disability and Special Education Needs
Author: Lorella Terzi (Roehampton Univ)
Panelists: Randall Curren (Univ of Rochester); Walter Feinberg (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Meira Levinson (Harvard Univ)
Location: William Dawes A
B Symbolic Clothing in Schools
Author: Dianne Gereluk (Roehampton Univ)
Panelists: Sigal Ben-Porath (Univ of Pennsylvania); Paula McAvoy (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison)
Location: William Dawes B
C An Existentialist Curriculum of Action: Creating a Language of Freedom and Possibility
Author: Shaireen Rasheed (Long Island Univ)
Panelists: Shilpi Sinha (Adelphi Univ); Haeryun Choi (Long Island Univ)
Chair: René Arcilla (New York Univ)
Location: Crispus Attucks
D John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living
Author: David Granger (SUNY Geneseo)
Panelists: Jim Garrison (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ); Naoko Saito (Kyoto Univ); A.G. Rud (Purdue Univ); Craig Cunningham (National Louis Univ); Claudia Eppert (Univ of Alberta)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
2:00 – 2:15pm Break
2:15 – 3:30pm Concurrent Sessions IV
A There are no Sheep in Post-Structuralism
Author: Audrey Thompson (Univ of Utah)
Respondent: Maureen Ford (Univ of Toronto/OISE)
Chair: Sarah Stitzlein (Univ of New Hampshire)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
B Education through a Cosmopolitan Prism
Author: David Hansen (Teachers College, Columbia Univ)
Respondent: Leonard Waks (Temple Univ)
Chair: Sigal Ben-Porath (Univ of Pennsylvania)
Location: William Dawes A
C The Social Nature of Epistemically Normative Deliberation
Author: Sheron Fraser-Burgess (Ball State Univ)
Respondent: Tone Kvernbekk (Univ of Oslo)
Chair: Jolanda Westerhof-Shultz (Grand Valley State Univ)
Location: William Dawes B
D Citizenship Education and the Philosophy of Affirmation: A Study in the Formation of a Liberal Identity
Author: Ryan Bevan (McGill Univ)
Respondent: Susan Verducci (California State Univ, San Jose)
Chair: Lynn de Jonghe (Marin Horizon School)
Location: Crispus Attucks
3:30 – 3:45pm Break
3:45 – 5:00pm Concurrent Sessions V
A Being in on the Joke: Pedagogy, Race, Humor
Author: Cris Mayo (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Respondent: Kal Alston (Syracuse Univ)
Chair: Jennifer Jenson (York Univ)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
B “The Tears that a Civil Servant Cannot See” – Rethinking Civic Virtue in Democratic Education: A Levinasian Perspective
Author: Trent Davis (York Univ)
Respondent: Clarence Joldersma (Calvin College)
Chair: Terri Wilson (Teachers College, Columbia Univ)
Location: William Dawes A
C A Situated Philosophy of Education
Authors: Nicholas Burbules (Univ of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) and Kathleen Knight Abowitz (Miami Univ)
Respondent: David Diener (Indiana Univ)
Chair: Harvey Siegel (Univ of Miami)
Location: William Dawes B
D The Superstition of Learning: Rethinking Dewey
Author: Ray McDermott (Stanford Univ)
Respondent: Jim Giarelli (Rutgers Univ)
Chair: Avi Bernstein-Nahar (Hebrew College)
Location: Crispus Attucks
5:15 – 6:45pm Kneller Reception
Location: Molly Pitcher
7:45 – 9:00pm Alternative Sessions
A “Divided No More”: Spirituality and Religion in the Academy
Panelists: Heesoon Bai (Simon Fraser Univ); Avraham Cohen (City Univ of Seattle); Avi Bernstein-Nahar (Hebrew College); Sean Blenkinsop (Simon Fraser Univ); Ann Diller (Univ of New Hampshire); Claudia Eppert (Univ of Alberta); Kevin Gary (Goshen College); Bruce Novak (Foundation for Ethics and Meaning)
Chair: Daniel Vokey (Univ of British Columbia)
Location: Crispus Attucks
B Learning and Interruption: Implications for Democratic Education
Panelists: Gert Biesta (Univ of Stirling); Nicholas Burbules (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Andrea English (Humboldt Univ Berlin); Deborah Kerdeman (Univ of Washington); Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern Univ); Elizabeth Meadows (Roosevelt Univ); Barbara Stengel (Millersville Univ)
Location: William Dawes A
C Continuity and Change in Philosophy of Education: A Symposium
Panelists: Sharon Bailin (Simon Fraser Univ); Jane Roland Martin (Univ of Massachusetts, Boston); Jonas Soltis (Teachers College, Columbia Univ); Kenneth Strike (Syracuse Univ)
Chair: Leonard Waks (Temple Univ)
Location: William Dawes B
SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2008
7:30 – 9:00am SIG Meetings
Ethics SIG
Convener: Daniel Vokey (Univ of British Columbia)
Location: Cambridge A
Spirituality and Religion SIG
Conveners: Sean Blenkinsop (Simon Fraser Univ); Bruce Novak (Foundation for Ethics and Meaning)
Location: Cambridge B
9:00 – 10:15am Concurrent Sessions VI
A White Privilege/White Complicity: Connecting “Benefiting From” To “Contributing To”
Author: Barbara Applebaum (Syracuse Univ)
Respondent: Liz Jackson (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Chair: Nisha Gupta (Syracuse Univ)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
B Education for Critical Democracy and Compassionate Globalization
Author: Kathy Hytten (Southern Illinois Univ)
Respondent: Amy Shuffelton (Univ of Wisconsin,Whitewater)
Chair: Karen Sihra (Univ of Toronto/OISE)
Location: William Dawes A
C Can (and Should) Educational Research be Value-Neutral?
Author: Jonathan Dolle (Stanford Univ)
Respondents: Emery Hyslop-Margison (Univ of New Brunswick) and Denis Phillips (Stanford Univ)
Chair: David Waddington (Concordia Univ)
Location: William Dawes B
D Drawing on Derrida: Aesthetic Practice as a Displacement of LearningAuthor: Margaret Manson (York Univ)
Respondent: Claudia Ruitenberg (Univ of British Columbia)
Chair: Iris Yob (Walden Univ)
Location: Crispus Attucks
10:15 – 10:30am Break
10:30 – Noon Presidential Address
Teaching with Integrity
Author: Michael Katz (California State Univ, San Jose)
Respondents: Nel Noddings (Stanford Univ) and Deborah Kerdeman (Univ of Washington)
Chair: Ron Glass (Univ of California, Santa Cruz)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
12:15 – 1:45pm Presidential Luncheon and Denis Phillips Roast
Repast: Ballroom A/B/C
Roast MC: Harvey Siegel (Univ of Miami)
Roasters: Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon; Michael Katz; Cris Mayo; Jon Dolle; Lynda Stone; Jim Marshall;Ron Glass; Gary Fenstermacher; David Waddington; Bob Floden; Nick Burbules; Deborah Kerdeman; Eamonn Callan; Susan Verducci….
Riposte: Denis Phillips (Stanford Univ)
2:00 – 3:15pm Concurrent Sessions VII
A Equal Opportunity and Outcomes Assessment
Author: Randall Curren (Univ of Rochester)
Respondent: Barbara Thayer-Bacon (Univ of Tennessee)
Chair: Justin York (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Location: William Dawes A
B Citizenship and Domination: The Relationship between Sophie and Emile
Author: Lyndsay Spear (Indiana Univ)
Respondent: Doris A. Santoro (Bowdoin College)
Chair: Tyson Lewis (Montclair Univ)
Location: William Dawes B
C Kant, the Nomad, and the Publicity of Thinking: Finding a Cure For Socrates’ Narration Sickness
Author: Eduardo Duarte (Hofstra Univ)
Respondent: Troy Richardson (Cornell Univ)
Chair: Frank Margonis (Univ of Utah)
Location: Crispus Attucks
3:15 – 3:30pm Break
3:30 – 5:00pm General Session Panel
Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups
Presenters: Stanley Cavell (Harvard Univ) and
Hilary Putnam (Harvard Univ)
Commentators: Naoko Saito (Kyoto Univ); Paul Standish (Institute of Education, Univ of London)
Chair: René Arcilla (New York Univ)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
5:15 – 6:30pm PES Business Meeting
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
8:00 – 9:15p Alternative Sessions
A Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Educational Value
Panelists: René Arcilla (New York Univ); Jim Garrison (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ); A.G. Rud (Purdue Univ)
Chair: Jeffrey Milligan (Florida State Univ)
Location: Thomas Paine A/B
B The Method of Democratic Education: A Rancièrean Conversation
Panelists: Claudia Ruitenberg (Univ of British Columbia); Charles Bingham (Simon Fraser Univ); Carl Anders Säfström (Mälardalen Univ)
Chair: Gert Biesta (Univ of Stirling)
Location: William Dawes A
C Expanding Philosophical Horizons: WEB DuBois, Tsunesaburo Makaguchi, and Maria Montessori
Participants: Rodino Anderson (Bowdoin College); Monte Joffee (The Renaissance School); Jennifer Whitcomb (Univ of Colorado, Boulder); Dale Snauwaert (Univ of Toledo)
Chair: Jane Roland Martin (Univ of Massachusetts, Boston)
Location: William Dawes B
D “Going to Work with the Philosophy of Education You Wish You Had" (COPA Session)
Panelists: Heesoon Bai (Simon Fraser Univ); Susan Laird (Univ of Oklahoma); Barbara Stengel (Millersville Univ)
Chair: John Covaleskie (Univ of Oklahoma)
Location: Crispus Attucks
9:30 – 11:30pm Presidential Reception
Location: Rooms 732 and 832
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2008
7:30 – 9:00am Executive Board Meeting
Location: Board Room 201
7:30 – 8:45am Topical Conversations
Location: Meet others for conversation at the appointed time at the PES Registration Table area; then find a comfortable spot in the lobby or nearby for conversation.
A Liberal Ideals, Democracy, and Difference
Conveners: Christopher Miller (Univ of Chicago); Shaireen Rasheed (Long Island Univ); Michael Schapira (McGill Univ)
B Rawls’ Reflective Equilibrium as an Educational Goal
Convener: Nakia Pope (Winthrop Univ)
C Reflections on Dewey’s Aesthetic Experience and on ‘Nature’ in Intelligence
Conveners: Joshua Fischel (Pennylvania State Univ); Jiwon Kim (Purdue Univ)
D Bridging – Unifying Differences
Conveners: Shilpi Sinha (Adelphi Univ); Justin York (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
9:00 – 10:30am General Session II
The Unbelievable Truth and the Dilemmas of Ignorance
Author: Jennifer Logue (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Respondent: Huey-li Li (Akron Univ)
Chair: Megan Boler (Univ of Toronto/OISE)
Location: Paul Revere A/B
10:30 – 10:45am Break
10:45 - Noon Concurrent Sessions VIII
A The Mined Mind: Domination, Desire, and Melancholy in The Corn is Green
Authors: James Stillwaggon (Iona College) and David Jelinek (Pratt Institute)
Respondent: Al Neiman (Notre Dame Univ)
Chair: Jessica Hochman (Teachers College, Columbia Univ)
Location: Paul Revere A
B Disability Consciousness: A Prolegomenon
Author: Michael Surbaugh (Univ of Oklahoma)
Respondent: Paul Smeyers (Ghent Univ and Univ of Leuven)
Chair: Lyudmila Bryzzheva (Adelphi Univ)
Location: Paul Revere B
C In Praise of Parens Patriae
Author: Jason Blokhuis (Univ of Rochester)
Respondent: Lawrence Quill (California State Univ, San Jose)
Chair: Anne Newman (Washington Univ, St. Louis)
Location: Cambridge A
Noon Meeting Adjournment
CONTACT: PES Executive Director Alexander
(Sasha) Sidorkin.
970-351-2701 phone, 970-351-1877 fax