1992: Varna, Bulgaria
Power and Education
17-20August 1992
Plenary / keynote presentations
Marin Andreev (Sofia University): Education and Social Control
Wendy Kohli (SUNY, Binghampton, USA): Power and Education: A Feminist Perspective
Jane Roland Martin (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA): Rethinking Curriculum, Regaining Culture
Julietta Savoya (Sofia University): Contemporary Education In Eastern Europe: Does Its Power Increase?
Nicolay Vassilev (Minister of Public Education and Science, Bulgaria)
Concurrent sessions
Milka Atanasova, Nelli Boyadjieva and Boris Minchev : The Professional Situation of the Bulgarian Teachers
Barry Ball: The 1992 Reauthorisation of the Higher Education Act and the Moral Justification of Higher Education in the United States
Joyce E. Bellous and Allen T. Pearson : Empowerment and Teacher Education
Sabri Buyukduvenci: Power as an Elusive Factor In Education
Miglena Dikova: The Teacher as a Regulator of Knowledge Levels
Mihail Dikov and Hristo Monov : The Collapse of Pedagogy
Paul Farber : Authoritative Judgement and the Power of Teachers
Ruth Firer: The Know-How to Elect and the Know-How to Be Elected
Aline Giroux: Empowering Teachers: Restoring a Sense of Authority?
Julie Kaufman and Gunilla Holm: Schooling. Literacy and the Disempowerment of Teachers and Students
Linda A. Longmire and Timothy H Smith: Ecology and Educational Reform in America: The Emergence of a Postmodern Paradigm
James Marshall: Michel Foucault, Governmentality and Liberal Education
Boguslawa Matwijow : Pluralism of Education in Poland: Controversy In the Sphere of Values
Louisa P McCarty and David McCarty: Bodies of Knowledge: An Application of Strangeness
Terence McLaughlin: Education for Citizenship in a Pluralist Society
Wally Morrow : Educational Authority and Community in a Transforming Society
Evelina Orteza y Miranda : Value Crisis of Modern Societies
Zoi Papanacum: The Continuous Professional Development of Teachers: Some Considerations
Shirley Philips:
Victor Quinn : In Defense of Critical Thinking as a Subject
Neidson Rodrigues: Brazilian Education: Modernity Challenges
Sonia Rowe: Power Bases and their Influence on Education
Eugenie Samier: Educational Reform In British Columbia: the Devolution of an Educational Ideal
Signe Sandsmark : Transmitting a Specific Religious View of Life In State
School: Misuse of Power or a Necessity?
Klavdia Sapundjieva: Power and Subservience
Pieter G. Schoeman: Power, Politics and Education under the Ban of Ideology:South African Experience
Paul Smeyers : On the Unavoidability of Power in Child-rearing; Is the Rights metaphor Educationally Appropriate?
John Smith: The Task of the Philosopher of Education in Countering the Threat of Affirmative Action to the Maintenance of Educational Standards in a Modern South Africa
Nikolina Sretenova: Cultural and Historical Background of Women’s Entrance Into Higher Education in Bulgaria
Kenneth A. Strike: On the Construction of Public Speech: Two Views of Civic language
James Tooley: Education, the State and Externalities: an Example
Tran Van Doan : The Dialectic of Power and Interests in Chinese Education
Julieta Velichkova-Berin: The Juridical Optimism of the Enlightenment
Vilia Velikova: Dimensions of Power in Education
Colin Wringe: Markets, Values and Education
A selection of papers from the conference was published in a Special Issue of Studies in Philosophy and Education Vol 14 No 1 (1995) edited by GrahamHaydon: ‘Power, Knowledge and Empowerment’