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July 2010 Update

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Call for Dues - Jeffrey Milligan

It is that time of year again--time to renew your membership for 2010-2011. I know it may seem like just yesterday that you paid your dues (many renewed in San Francisco), but this past year's membership expired June 30. If you have not done so already please log in to our secure payment system and renew your membership for 2010-2011. It does have the forgotten password feature, and you can pay with a credit card -Visa or Master Card. Check payments are also available, but use the on-line system nevertheless. If you have forgotten whether you paid or not, log in and check under the Membership tab. You can also take this time to update your address and other information.

To log in you simply need to enter your e-mail address and password. If you have trouble logging in it may be because your e-mail address has changed. If that's the case, try using your old e-mail address or, if you don't remember it, let me know and I can change it in our records. Even if you don't remember your password you can enter your e-mail and click on the "forgotten your password?" link. The system will send you (to the e-mail address we have on file!) a temporary password that you can use to log in.

Thanks to all of you who renewed your membership recently.

Those of you who attended the business meeting in San Francisco know the concerns that were expressed regarding a drop off in membership the past two years. We can turn that around by making sure to renew our own membership (Don't put it off! It's easy to forget) and by inviting our colleagues and students to join.

Finally, the 2011 Meeting will mark the end of my tenure as Executive Director. So, if you think you might be interested in serving the Society in this capacity, now is the time to start thinking about it. I would be happy to talk informally with anyone about the duties of Executive Director. The Elections Committee (election coming later this month!) is ultimately responsible for nominating a new Executive Director, but I'm sure they would be happy to have some volunteers or suggestions when the time comes.

Message from the President - Eamonn Callan

Your not-so dutiful president does everything at the last minute, except for those many things he does after the last minute. That being so, I feel like something of a hypocrite urging people to plan ahead for next year’s PES annual conference in St. Louis on March 24 to March 28, 2011. But if I can do it, I am sure you can do likewise.

Exciting plans are afoot for the annual conference. We all owe a particularly big debt to our friend Lonna Smith, whose expertise in negotiating a hotel contract in St. Louis with an especially opulent vendor was utterly invaluable. More details on the conference are available below from our Program Chair, Rob Kunzman, and the Chair of our Hospitality Committee, Anne Newman.  I trust that the turkey and squirrel hunters among our members will be excited to hear some of Anne’s news, though I must confess I prefer my wild turkey from a bottle.

Have a great summer and I hope to see you all (or at least a big fraction thereof) next year in St. Louis.  A city that’s the home of Chuck Berry has got to be worth visiting, right?

Call for Papers - Rob Kunzman

It is my pleasure to announce the first Call for Papers and Proposals for the 67th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) to be held March 24-28, 2011 at the Ritz-Carlton in St. Louis, Missouri. 

•Call for Papers and Proposals

Please click on the link to find specific information regarding papers and alternative session proposals, including instructions for submitting your paper or proposal electronically to pes2011submissions@gmail.com.  The deadline for receipt of all submissions is November 1, 2010. To make the work of all involved manageable we will adhere tightly to the November 1 deadline. Submissions will be accepted beginning September 15, 2010.  Please distribute this information widely, especially to those who are new to the Society.

• Conference Theme: “Justice and School Funding” 
New for the 2011 conference, The Philosophy of Education Society and the journal Educational Theory have established a joint venture to identify a conference theme: “Justice and School Funding.”  Please note that submitted papers do not need to address the conference theme, and will not receive special consideration for doing so.  Accepted papers that do address the theme, however, will be considered for separate publication in a special issue of Educational Theory.  For further details, please click on the Call for Papers and Proposals link.


• 2011 Program Committee

An outstanding group of colleagues has agreed to serve on the 2011 Program Committee. I look forward to working with them and would like to thank them on behalf of PES for their service. This year’s Program Committee members are: Eric Bredo (University of Toronto), Barry Bull (Indiana University), Lynn De Jonghe (Windrush School), Eduardo Duarte (Hofstra University), Denise Egéa-Kuehne (Louisiana State University), Fred Ellett (University of Western Ontario), Kathy Hytten (Southern Illinois University), Meira Levinson (Harvard University), Natasha Levinson (Kent State University), Hunter McEwan (University of Hawaii), Michael Merry (University of Amsterdam), Nakia Pope (Winthrop University), Lawrence Quill (San José State University), Suzanne Rice (University of Kansas), Suzanne Rosenblith (Clemson University), Shelby Sheppard (Western Washington University), Judith Suissa (University of London), and David Waddington (Concordia University).

I look forward to seeing you all in St. Louis!

Hospitality Committee - Anne Newman

We are fortunate to have secured the excellent rate of $139/night at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in St. Louis, which features elegant rooms and meeting spaces and is within walking distance of a variety of restaurants, cafes, and shops. Detailed information about reservations is forthcoming in future PES updates. For now, you can get more information about the hotel and its amenities at: http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/StLouis/Default.htm.

We have arranged for a complimentary welcome reception on the eve of the conference (Thursday, March 24, 2011) at the hotel, which will feature local food and drink specialties. So plan to arrive early to catch up with friends and colleagues!

St. Louis is rich with cultural attractions to explore, good food to enjoy, and neighborhoods to stroll. Within walking distance of the hotel, you’ll find many of the city’s best restaurants, cafes, and bars. And nearby (accessible by light rail) is Forest Park, where the 1904 World’s Fair was held. The vast park (over 1200 acres) is home to a number of museums and cultural attractions including the art museum, zoo, science center, and history museum – all of which are free! The nearby Delmar Loop offers more restaurants and bars (including the landmark Blueberry Hill, and locally brewed Fitz’s Root Beer). Also nearby is the historic Central West End neighborhood, with another array of places to eat, drink, shop, and residential streets lined with historic mansions. A trip to the downtown area could include a ride to the top of the St. Louis Arch, a visit to the celebrated City Museum, a tour of the Anheuser-Busch brewery, or a visit to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis or Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. For more information about some of the city’s off-the-beaten-path attractions, see the New York Times’s just-published “36 Hours in St. Louis” travel guide, available at: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/travel/27hours.html.

(with thanks to David Waddington for the following)

St. Louis also holds an interesting place in the history of philosophy of education. William Torrey Harris, St. Louis’s superintendent of schools from 1868 to 1880, was the man who published John Dewey’s very first article in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. A dedicated Hegelian, Harris shared this philosophical interest with one of Missouri’s more colorful political figures, Lieutenant Governor Henry Brokmeyer. In cooperation with Harris, who was attempting to “make Hegel talk English,” Brokmeyer was working on a translation of Hegel’s Science of Logic. He was prone to periodic Thoreauvian withdrawals to the then-wilderness of Warren County, but Harris noted that, for Brokmeyer, “Even the hunting of wild turkeys and squirrels was occasion for the use of philosophy.”

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), re-enactments of Harris and Brokmeyer’s rambles through the forest may prove difficult, and unless you are especially enterprising and well-prepared, there may not be much opportunity for the hunting of wild turkeys while at the conference. However, it’s certain that there will be plenty of occasions both for the use of philosophy and for meeting up with friends and colleagues.

See you in St. Louis!

Announcements and Calls for Papers

NEW BOOKS

  • Sigal R. Ben-Porath, Tough Choices: Structured Paternalism and the Landscape of Choice, Princeton University Press, 2010. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9358.html
  • Barbara Applebaum, Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy, Lexington Books, 2010. http://www.LexingtonBooks.com
  • Rene V. Arcilla, Mediumism: A Philosophical Reconstruction of Modernism for Existential Learning, SUNY Press, 2010.

 

CALLS FOR PAPERS

The New England Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES) will hold its 2010 Annual Meeting at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut, on Saturday, October 23rd.

The keynote speaker for the conference will be Dr. David Moss, from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Moss is an Associate Professor in the Neag School of Education. His faculty appointment is in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction specializing environmental education. His current research interests are in the areas of international education, education reform, and environmental education.

Following the precedent of previous years, Concurrent Paper Sessions will be a feature of the program. The Program Committee invites proposals on all topics relevant to philosophy of education interpreted broadly to include the recognized foundational disciplines of philosophy, history, social foundations and comparative and international education. Proposal format may include individual papers, panels and symposia. All proposals should be sent in electronic form as email attachments, preferably in the form of MS Word documents, and should adhere to the guidelines that follow. Please send proposals to the program chair, Timothy Reagan, at timothy.reagan@gmail.com by July 15th.

Guidelines for Proposals 

Each proposal should be submitted as a single Word document, which should include the following separated from each other by a page break:

  • A one-page cover sheet that lists the title of the paper. It should include the name, affiliation and information of the proposal organizer and for each of the participants. Include email address, mailing address, telephone number and fax number.
  • An abstract of the proposed paper should be included. It should outline the paper’s focus and rationale. Limit the abstract to 75 words.
  • A two page proposal (single spaced) which describes the topic, theoretical sources, data sources, findings and significance of the paper.

Conference participants are required to pay the $30 registration fee for the conference, which includes lunch. Audiovisual equipment must be provided by the presenter. Please email Timothy Reagan at timothy.reagan@gmail.com.

 

The 55th Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society to be held at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Friday and Saturday, October 1 -2, 2010. A special feature of this year’s meeting will be an invited panel organized by Glenn Hudak: Philosophizing Moral Outrage: The Legacy of David E. Purpel

General Conference Theme:  Open
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2010 (Applicants will be notified of their status by 9/1/2010)


The SAPES program committee invites proposals to be submitted for presentation at the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society. The program committee welcomes proposals in the field of philosophy of education as well as related conceptual and theoretical work.  Previous topics have included democracy and education, moral and spiritual issues in education, issues concerning the fundamental purposes of teaching and learning, and feminism and gender issues in education.  Presented papers will be eligible for publication in the society’s yearbook.  Recent yearbooks can be viewed online at http://sapes.org/publications.html.
Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals.  Limited stipends for graduate level travel are available.

Proposals should not exceed 250 words and should be submitted via email attachment in Word, Rich Text, or PDF format to: Michael Dale, SAPES Program Committee Chair (dalemw@appstate.edu).  More information about the meeting and about SAPES is available at www.sapes.org.

 

PESA Conference 2010. Papers are invited for the 40th Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. The conference will be held December 2 and 3 at Murdoch University and December 4 and 5 at Tingrith Farm, Margaret River, Western Australia. The conference theme is "Philosophy and Schools." For full details and the call for papers: http://pesa.org.au

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

An Invitation from the PES Ethics SIG

All members of PES are invited to join the email distribution list of the PES Ethics Special Interest Group by sending their name and email address to the current Chair, Daniel Vokey (daniel.vokey@ubc.ca). The list is maintained so that anyone on it can circulate messages of interest to other subscribers. These messages can be notices of
* recent publications (e.g., Barabara Applebaum, Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy);
* conferences (e.g., AME Nov 2010, http://ame2010.org/);
* dissertations in the field (e.g., Scott Priestman Reasonable Impartiality: Toward a Foundation for Moral Education https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/17193/ubc_2005-105577.pdf);
            * calls for submissions to special issues of journals and to edited book collections addressing ethics and education (e.g., http://plato-apa.org/teaching-wisdom-in-higher-education-call-for-papers); and/or
            * websites (e.g., the Center for Ethics Education at Fordham University, http://www.fordham.edu/academics/office_of_research/research_centers__in/center_for_ethics_ed/resources_and_links/index.asp).
            Subscribers can also post messages to the list with requests for information related to ethics and education. Speaking of which: the former (and, I believe, founding) Chair of the Ethics SIG, Michael Katz, has kindly volunteered to assume responsibility for collecting and distributing syllabi (aka, course outlines) for courses on ethics and education. Michael will inherit the collection of syllabi collected by Barbara Applebaum, who has been serving the Ethics SIG in this role up to now. If you have taught and are teaching courses in ethics for educators, please consider sending your course outline to Michael as an attachment (mskatz1944@yahoo.com). This is no time to hide your light under a bushel.
            All PES members are also invited, of course, to attend the special sessions sponsored by the Ethics SIG at the PES Annual Meetings each year. Details on the 2011 session with be forthcoming in due course.

 

The Journal of Educational Controversy

The Journal of Educational Controversy announces its upcoming summer 2010 issue on "Professions and Scholarly Communities:   Creating the Public's Questions and Understanding."  We are still accepting manuscripts for the 2011 issue on: "The Education our Children Deserve."  Due date for manuscripts is December 31, 2010.  See the journal's website for a description of the controversy addressed. http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/   We also invite readers to join us on our journal's blog at: http://journalofeducationalcontroversy.blogspot.com/

 

International Journal of Educology

In the 2010 issue of the International Journal of Educology in its CD format (cd-IJE), available and accessible through the Education Research Complete EBSCO database in December, 2010, the Experiential Philosophy of Educology Analyses of Articles in Educational Theory will begin with its Volume 59 Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, 2009 articles.  The purpose of the analyses in the year 2009, and following years, articles in Educational Theory is to account for how the concept of educology, as designating a body of mutually supportive funds of experiential scientific, praxiologic, and axiologic educology, from an experiential philosophy of educology perspective, as founded in Dewey's experiential philosophy of logic and grounded in the experiential sciences of ecology and semiotics, both of which are founded in Dewey's experiential philosophy of logic, can be used to organize and unify all knowledge claims formed in sentential meaning and made to reference the home, school, and other social institutional practices of educational process, and effects on it, specifically in the context of educologically formed meaning in Educational Theory articles, but generally being made about the educational process, and effects on it, in any context of educologically formed sentential meaning.



CONTACT: PES Executive Cris Mayo
217-333-3673; cmayo@illinois.edu