PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
Call for Papers
67th Annual Meeting 2011
67th ANNUAL MEETING 2011
The 67th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) will be held from Thursday, April March 24-28, 2011 at the Ritz-Carlton in St. Louis, Missouri. The Program Committee invites papers to be submitted for presentation at the Annual Meeting and for subsequent publication in the PES Yearbook, Philosophy of Education 2011. The Committee also invites three other types of proposals: (1) Proposals for alternative sessions; (2) Proposals for topical discussions to take place at the meeting; and (3) Proposals for work-in-progress that bring participants together to collaborate on developing ideas that are not yet ready for the regular paper submission process.
The Program Committee will review only submissions made in accordance with the instructions below. With the exception of the Presidential Address, the Kneller Lecture, and other specially designated invited talks, only those papers reviewed and accepted by the Program Committee, and invited responses to them, will be published in Philosophy of Education 2011.
DEADLINE: Submissions must be submitted electronically to pes2011submissions@gmail.com no later than November 1, 2010. See filing instructions appear below.
PES 2011 THEME: JUSTICE AND SCHOOL FUNDING
The Philosophy of Education Society and the journal Educational Theory have established a joint venture to identify a theme for each year’s conference. While submitted papers need not address the theme, accepted papers that do address the theme will be noted on the program as such and will be considered for separate publication in a special issue of the journal.
The purpose of this venture is to provide a high-visibility forum for philosophers of education to speak to important current issues of policy and practice in education. We believe it will be beneficial to PES, and to the field of philosophy of education more widely, to have a higher profile in this regard. The journal version will reach an even broader, and international, audience.
Next year’s theme is “Justice and School Funding.” This theme could be addressed, for example, by looking at equity considerations in school funding differentials; the democratic roots of public funding for schooling; the provision of public funds for private and parochial schools; the consequences of using property taxes as opposed to income taxes as a basis for school funding; the impact of unequal resources in exacerbating other educational inequities; proposed alternative funding bases for education; comparative studies of systems of school funding in different countries; and many other topics. We are interpreting this theme in a very broad way.
Authors submitting papers to the PES program are not required to write on the theme, and only a subset of papers in the overall program will be thematically driven. All papers will go through the normal review process. Papers not found acceptable on grounds of quality will not be accepted simply because they address the theme. Papers not addressing the theme will not be penalized for that reason. Invited papers, the Presidential Address, and the Kneller lecture will all be eligible for inclusion, if they address the theme.
Following the conference, and in light of the response pieces at the event, the Program Chair will invite some or all of the authors who have written on the theme to revise and expand their papers, up to a limit of about 6000 words, within two months of the conference. Authors are not allowed to make these sorts of revisions for the version appearing in the PES Yearbook, so the revised versions will be substantially different. It is even possible that a response paper might be deemed by the Program Chair to be of sufficient quality and distinctness to justify its being expanded to a full-length essay on its own and submitted as part of the collection.
Two months after the conference, this set of revised papers will then be submitted as a collection to Educational Theory for review and consideration as part of a special themed issue. The papers will go through the normal journal review process, and may be subject to requests for further revision following that process. They will be refereed publications, as are all Educational Theory articles. Decisions on the final acceptance of papers will be made jointly by the Program Chair, serving as Guest Editor of the special issue, and the journal Editor, but in cases of disagreement the final decision will rest with the journal Editor.
Given the review process and production timeline, this special issue will normally appear early in the year following the conference.
SUBMISSION FORMATS
PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Papers may not exceed 4500 words, including footnotes, and must be written in proper PES form (see theStyle Guide).The 4500-word limit will be strictly enforced. Papers that modestly exceed the 4500-word limit will be subject to editing. Papers that exceed this limit excessively will be subject to rejection without review or to not being published in the PES Yearbook.
Multiple reviewers will review papers blindly. Final decisions on manuscripts rest with the Program Chair. Criteria for review include quality of argument, links to philosophical and philosophy of education literature and to educational practice, quality of expression, and importance of the contribution. Please make sure that references to your name, institutional affiliation, or work (e.g., “As I have argued on many occasions…”) are omitted from the paper, including the notes. Your identifying information will not be available to reviewers.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: Proposals may not exceed 400 words, including references. They take three general forms:
• ALTERNATIVE SESSIONS may be scheduled concurrently with paper sessions or in separate time slots. Examples include roundtables, poster dialogues, authors’ talks, performances, consultations, interviews, and conversations on issues. Criteria for review include originality and clarity of motivating question or idea, potential interaction with session attendees, and relevance/importance to educational philosophy and educational practice.
• TOPICAL DISCUSSIONS are typically scheduled during mealtimes and evenings. Examples include small informal discussions on selected readings, special interests, and current debates, especially relating to educational practice. Criteria for review include originality and clarity of motivating question or idea, potential interaction with session attendees, and relevance/importance to educational philosophy and educational practice.
• WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSIONS group scholars with work-in-progress in an informal collaborative setting. Proposals should detail the question or claim being investigated, relevant sources/resources, likely direction, and mode(s) of analysis. Criteria for review include originality and clarity of question/claim, suitability of sources/resources, suitability of mode(s) of analysis, potential for contribution to educational philosophy and educational practice.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Submit papers or proposals as a Word attachment to pes2011submissions@gmail.com by November 1, 2010.
In the body of your e-mail, please provide the following contact information:
Name
Insitutional Affiliation
Email address
Phone number
Mailing address
Submissions will be accepted beginning September 15, 2010. An e-mail confirmation that your submission has been received will be sent within two business days.
Note: If you do not receive an email confirmation within two business days of your submission, please contact Rob Kunzman: rkunzman@indiana.edu.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AS A RESPONDENT OR CHAIR
Members of PES who are interested in serving as session chairs or respondents are invited to contact the Program Chair, Rob Kunzman, at rkunzman@indiana.edu. Please specify your areas of expertise and provide your full contact information (mailing address, email address, and phone number).
For questions concerning the 2011 program, please contact Rob Kunzman at rkunzman@indiana.edu.
CONTACT: PES Executive Director Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
850-644-8171; milligan@coe.fsu.edu