1994: Leuven, Belgium
Identity, Culture, and Education
18-21 August 1994
Plenary / keynote presentations
Smeyers, Paul: Introduction to the theme “Losing our identity and culture? Educational attention to particulars”
Macmillan, Jim: Is community necessary? Ouasi-philosophical ruminations
Tamir, Yael: The quest for identity
White, John: Liberalism, nationality and education
Concurrent sessions
Aviram, Aharon: New humanistic curriculum: A response to education’s betrayal of the need for meaning
Brosio, Richard: Late capitalism and postmodernism: Educational problems and possibilities
Buiko, Tatyana: National identity as educational problem: Towards a national system of education in Belarus
Bull, Barry: The moral justification of systemic education reform in the U.S.
Crawley, Francis: Tradition, recognition, and truth: Cultural Identity in the eyes of the university
De Ruyter, Doret L, & Siebren Miedema: Schools, identity and the conception of the good: The denominational tradition as an example
Gabbard, David A.: Education for sustainability: Reconstituting the individual and expanding the notion of community
Grebe, Randal: Philosophers of education as transformative agents in multicultural institutions
Kasprisin, Lorraine: Ideas of self and community: Ethical implications for a communitarian conception of moral autonomy
Kimball, Stephanic, & Jim Garrison: Hermencutic listening: An approach to understanding in multicultural conversations
Koch, Lutz: Common sense as an ingredient of the self and the community
Larrosa, Jorge: Identity, education, and the experience of language: A comment on the Platonic banishment of poets
Levering, Bas: How much ‘Heimat’ does a human being need? Second attempt to answer the question: An analysis of ‘home’ in modern Dutch poetry
Losito, William F.: Philosophizing about education in a postmodern society: The role of myth and ritual in education
Marshall, James D.: The autonomous chooser and ‘reforms’ in education
Masschelein, Jan: Individualization, singularization and E-ducation (Between indifference and responsibility)
Meuer, WiIna: General education, cultural diversity and identity
Neiman, Alvin M.: Rorty’s Dewey: Pragmatism, education, and the public sphere
Noel, Jana: Evolving conceptions of self through community or The development and overcoming of prejudice
O'Loughlin, Marjorie: Ways of thinking and being: Explorations in ontologies
Ray, G. Thomas: Some moral contradictions in the conservative educational reform discourse in the United States
Spiecker, Ben, & Jan Steutel: Moral identity and education in a multicultural society
Stone, Lynda: Misreading Dewey: A thesis and exemplar
Weijers, Ido: Intellectuals and their education
Wells, Douglas: Relational persons and ethical paradigms
White, Patricia: Having a voice and getting a hearing: An educational perspective on free speech in a plural society
Williams, Kevin: Education for European citizenship: A philosophical critique
Topical Sessions
Alexander, Hanan, Charles Melchert, & Annabel Proffitt: Religion, multiculturalism, and education
Alte Da Veiga, Manuel: Acceptance of error and a new look at obedience/authority: Analysis of students’ contributions for an education in an era of conflict
Amilburu, Maria G.: Primary culture and personal identity
Appelbaum, Peter, M.: Is the self-esteem engine losing steam? Mathematics education, identity and culture
Bak, Nelleke: Tensions between instrumentalist and non-instrumentalist approaches to environmental education in South Africa
Beckett, David: Professional practice for educators: Acting wisely
Bellous, Joyce: Minority identity: Chaos on the inside
Biesta, Gert: Pragmatism as a pedagogy of communicative action: A pragmatic view on communicative competence in the debate on education and communication
Bogdan, Deanne: Conversation, interaction, examination: Theorizing gender and culture in a graduate class
Brandon, Edward P.: Citizen of the world: Possibilities and limits
Budajczak, Marek: A conception of identity against culture
Cato, Dennis: Selections from 7he P.C.H.S. Pecker”
Darling, John: Teaching: My self or my role?
Enslin, Penny: Identity, democracy and education
Evans, Roy: Educational reconstruction through discourse
Fujita, Hiroko: On the thoughts of preschool education in Edo period and the infants drawn in Ukiyoe (woodblock print)
Gabbard, David, A.: Approaches to the problem of individualism in education: Bowers and beyond (Papers by Gabbard, Beatham, Marc, McBride, Maggie, Sassone, Leslie A, Wayne, Kathryn)
Garcia Notario, Margarita: Citizenship as legal status and human quality
Gerdzhikova, Nina: Post-modern culture patterns in everyday teacher practice
Gingell, John: Cultural artefacts
GoZotok, Dilek: The role of the teacher in the formation of the student’s identity
Grebe, Randal: Educational researchers as transformative agents reshaping the boundaries of research in a multicultural institution
Gurkan, Tanju: On the relationship between the teaching attitudes and the self-concept of primary school teachers
Hager Paul, & David Beckett: Philosophical underpinnings of the integrated conception competence
Hager Paul, & Jim Butler: The rise of a new philosophy of assessment
Halstead, Mark: Should schools reinforce children’s religious identity?
Heyting, Frieda: Cultural diversity, the fragmentation of personal identity and the concept of education
Imelman, Jan Dirk: The taking down of the Iron Curtain and the search for pedagogical autonomy
Jover, Gonzalo: European union: Identity, human rights and education
Kinach, Barbara: Knowledge and the curriculum: Epistemological considerations for teacher education reform
Koga, Yoshio: The role of philosophical educational anthropology: Academic vacuum areas between philosophy of education and cultural anthropology
Kizeitzberg, Peeter: Democratization of education: Paradigmatic difficulties
Lorberbaum, Menachem: Elusive identity: The case of Israel
Lovat, Terence: Conceptions of Hindu and Islamic identity in Australia and their impact on religious and values education
McNamee, Mike: Education, wholeness and fragmented identity
Moller, T.: Realisation of second and third generation human rights and the provision of education in the RSA
Pendlebury, Shirley: Public space, education and the politics of recognition
Praamsma, Jan Maarten: Changing education in a changing world: The case of environmental education
Rekus, Juergen: Moral education in an era of pluralism
Roebben, Bert: Values communication and the affective commitment to the Communio: The complementarity of reason and emotion in ethics teaching
Samier, Eugenie: The illusion of the multicultural mosaic
Sandsmark, Signe: The role of religion in identity, culture and education
Sapunwieva, Klaudia & Nelly Boyawieva: Culture and education: Ontological analysis in the area of philosophy of education
Schoeman, Pieter G.: Ideological obstacles in the South African discourse on identity, culture and education
Schreuder, Pauline R.: Reflection, representation and selection: The relation between education and society
Small, Rosalie: The education crisis in South Africa: The reparation potential of narrative
Smith, John: The birth of a nation: New identity; traditional cultural diversities
Smith, Timothy H. & Linda A. Longmire: Management-based vs. ecologically-based educational paradigms
Standish, Paul: Explicit differences
Suransky, Caroline: Theoretical-philosophical constructs, policy development and educational practice: Education and change in South Africa
Suransky Tooley, James: Ideas of the self and community under democratic capitalism: Educational implications of the work of Michael Novak
Van Der Ploeg, Piet A.: Colliding human rights: The right to education vs. the right to educate
Velikova, Vilia: The identity in the perspective of the activity
Vergnioux, Alain: The self and the community: Three patterns for education
Wolfson-Mazin, Suzan: Cultural identity and cultural peace
Zisman, Paul: The destruction of community through philosophical discourse
A selection of papers from the conference was published in a Special Issue of Studies in Philosophy and Education Vol 15 Nos 1-2 (1996) edited by Luise Prior McCarty with the assistance of Paul Farber, Paul Smeyers and Sabri Buyukduvenci : “Identity, Culture and Education’