1988: Pecs, Hungary
Philosophy of Education: Bridge or Gulf between East and West
21-24 August 1988
Plenary / keynote presentations
Michael W Apple (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) : Avoiding Reductionism and Essentialism: The Case for the Parallelist Position in Critical Educational Studies
Volodar V Kraevskij (USSR Academy Of The Pedagogical Sciences, Moscow): Ideology of Perestroika and Educational Reform in the USSR
Otto Mihaly (National Institute of Education, Budapest, Hungary): Changes within Paradigms of Socialist Education
John White (Institute of Education, University of London): Diversity and Conflict in Values-Education
Concurrent sessions
Wilfred Carr: Values and Educational Research
Jacob Christensen: The School for Life
Josd Riberio Dias : Man as the Highest Value in Education
Katalin Farkas-Sandor Klein: On Becoming a Teacher
Walter Feinberg: Alienation and Moral Agency
Robert D. Heslep: Moral Values to which Schools are Logically Committed
Attila Horvath: Rational Education, The Anglo Dream versus the Communal Man Ideal
Greta Hofmann Nemiroff: Critica Humanism: From an Eclectic Ideology to a Pedagogy of Empowerment
Richard Olechowski: An Attempt for a Synthesis of Mechanistic Theories of the Human Being and of Theories of Individual Freedom
Evelina Orteza Y Miranda: Education, Freedom, Autonomy
Donald Power: The Indoctrination of Irish-Canadians into British Cultural Values through the Use of Authorized School Textbooks
Francis Schrag: Educational Scarcity
Elemor Vamagy: Cultural or/and Multicultural Education in Schools? (Education and Interethnic Relations)
A collection of papers from the conference was published in HARVATH, A and MIHALY, O (Eds) (1988) Philosophy of Education. Bridge or Gulf Between East and West. (Orszagos PedagogiaiIntezet, Budapest) pp 258