1998: Ankara, Turkey
Educational Rights and Entitlements
25-28 August 1998
Plenary / keynote presentations
Ahmet Inffiffi (Middle East Technical University, Turkey): How One Becomes Ignorant Through Education
Mehmet Ali Kisakrek (Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey): Perspectives on the Turkish Educational System
Concurrent sessions
Andrew Davis: Do children have privacy rights in the classroom?
Peggy Ann Geren: Public Discourse: Creating the conditions for dialogue concerning the common good in a postmodern hetereogeneous democracy
Ilan Gur-Ze’ev: The Holocaust in Israeli and Palestinian education and the acknowledgement of ‘the Other’
Theo Muller: Educational rights and responsibilities of the State and the parent with special reference to the 1996 Constitution of South Africa
Christine Doddington: Entitled to Speak:Talk in the classroom
Sheryle Drewe: The Value of Knowledge/Rationality or the Knowledge/Rationality of Values: Implications for Education
John Halliday: Political Liberalism and Forms of Practice: Towards Curriculum Reform
Kamil Z Ozerk: A Right to and Opportunity for Reciprocal Functional Bilingualism
Daniella Coetzee: The Legitimacy of Authority and Power in Democratic Education
Vilia Velikova: The Striving for Domination: A Provocation to Human Rights in the Educational Process
James Garrison: Dewey, Derrida and the Metaphysics of Presence
Ruth Jonathan: Citizenship, Identity and Public Education
Mark Halstead & Terence McLaughlin: Education in Character and Virtue
A Baki Guclu: Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy Revisited: Educational Implications of the Philosophical Investigations
Tomas Englund: Children as Potentially Participatory Citizens: The Right of Children to a Pluralistic Education
Paul Hager: The Right to Recognition of Informal Learning? Some obstacles and issues
Erdinc Sayan: How to Tell When Affirmative Action is Too Harsh
Yasin Ceylan: Methodology of Disobedience
Johann le Roux: Multicultural Education for a Democratic South African Dispensation
Daniel Lechner: Upholding the Right to Education: making Foucauldian self-creation possible by destabilizing Latourian networks
Boris Minchev, Nelly Regadjievec & Kloydici Sopundjievo: The Child and Religion in Bulgaria: Ethno-cultural dimensions
Christine Tubb: Children are Entitled to Know: why nuclear war should be addressed in schools
Topical colloquia
John Roe: Tertiary Education for All: Right or Privilege?
Gonzalo Jover: What Does the Right to Education Mean? An Approximation from the Legal, Ethical and Pedagogical Point of View
Marjorie O’Loughlin: Can the Development of Emotional Dispositions Be Considered a Right?
Boris Minchev, Nelly Rights and Responsibilities in Contemporary Bulgarian Education
Regadjievec & Kloydici Sopundjievo
Symposium on South African education
Papers by John B Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Hannes van der Walt, Susan van Regensburg, Charles Viljoen
Special symposium on the state of ethics in education
Led by Kenneth Strike
Roundtable sessions
Penny Enslin & Shirley Pendlebury: Rights are not trumps in education
Halil Rahman Acar: Some theoretical considerations on teaching and learning mother tongue as an educational right
John Colbeck: Children should have a right to be equally valued
Dimitre Tzvetkov: What philosophy of education do we need?
Ilan Gur-Ze’ev: A joint critical project on the issue of holocaust/Nakha memories and instrumentalization of memories by the Israeli and Palestinian educational systems
Tone Kvernbekk: Education as a human right: the case of Comenius
Jana Noel: Developing a hermeneutical consciousness of prejudice
A selection of papers from the conference was published in a Special Issue of Studies in Philosophy and Education Vol 20 No 3 (2001) edited by Lynda Stone and Michael Gunzenhauser: ‘Educational Rights and Entitlements’