2000: Sydney, Australia
Philosophy of Education in the New Millennium
18-21 August 2000
Plenary / keynote presentations
Jack Beetson (Principal: Trartby Aboriginal College): Aboriginal ways of being: towards an aboriginal philosophy
Geoffrey Sherington (Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney)
Ilan Gur Ze’ev (University of Haifa): Philosophy of peace education in a post modern era
Concurrent sessions
Hanan Alexander: Aesthetic Inquiry in Education and the Resacralization of Social Thought
Sharon Bailin: Skills, Generalizability and Critical Thinking
David Beckett and Gayle Morris: Ontological Performance: Bodies Identities and Learning
Jan Bengtsson: Possibilities of Self Reflection and Limits in the Teaching Profession
David Bridges: Faction and Fiction, Educational Narrative Research ‘TheMagic of the Real’
Neill Brown: TBA
Srilekka Chatterjee: Every Child is the Light of the World, and at the Same Time can be the Cause of Its Darkness
John Colbeck: Multi-Dimensional Education
Stephen Crump: Transformative Policy: Stepping into the Firing Line
Andrew Davis: Cognitive Powers and Dispositions
Patrick Fitzsimmons: Liberal education and the culture of reason in the new millennium
Peter Fitzsimmons: Personal Challenge and Education: The snake that cannot shed its skin will perish
Jim Garrison: Spiritual Education as Poetic Creation
Paul Hager: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge
John Halliday: Who wants to Learn Forever?
lrene Harvey: Learning as a Contact Sport
Bruce Haynes: On the Supposed Connection Between Research and Teaching
Greg Heath: In Whose Interest is Education?: Private and Public and the Third Way
Leonie Higgs: A Pluralistic Problem-Solving Approach to Educational Discourse
Phillip Higgs: A Reconstruction of South African Philosophy of Education
Padraig Hogan: Difference and Deference in Teaching and Learning
Elaine Holmes-Neeld: Has Philosophy of Education Lost its Plot?
Adarn Horvarth: Post-Modern Thoughts and In-Body Knowing
Ruth Irwin: Nietzsche, Deleuze and Distribution of Difference
Gonzalo Jover: Philosophy of Education in Spain on the Threshold of the New Millenium: Revision and prospects
Tone Kvernbekk: Is this a Narrative?
Huey-li Li: Bio-Regionalism and Global Education: Experiencing the Connections
Margaret Macpherson: Professionally Embodied Mothers: Primary Teachers and the Duty of Care
James Marshall: Educational Philosophy, Language and Culture in the 21st Century
Mark Mason: Against Banding in Hong Kong Schools an Argument for Complexity Theory
Jim McKenzie: On Representation
Kerry McNeill: Spirituality in Higher Education
Wally Morrow: TBA
Monde Ndandani: Ontology and Education in Post-1994 South Africa
Marjorie O’Loughlin: The Nation as Good Object: Citizenship and Meaning in a
Globalising World
Kamil Ozerk: Sami People and Language
Robert Parkes: The Crisis in Pedagogy
Horst Pfeiffle: Education in an Administered World
Masivuye Sangoni: Quality Assurance Programs Relativist or Objectivist Conceptions of Education?
Marlene Savodnik: The Multicultural Trinity
Inna Runova Semetsky: The Problem of fluman Subjectivity: Gilles Deleuze and the Deweyan Legacy
Paul Smeyers: Carpe Diem
Barbara Thayer- Bacon: Caring Reasoning
Vilia Velikova: Power of Image in Cyberspace and Innocence
Yusef Waghid: Rethinking Outcomes Based Education
Derek Whitehead: Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and the Paradox of Expression
Christopher Winch: Learning in the Workplace
Stein Wivestad: Art Experience for Educational Agape and Phronesis
Topical colloquia
A Vision To Teach by: Pre-modern, Modern and Post-Modern Orientation for the Philosophy of Education: Padraig Hogan and Terry McLaughlin
British Philosophy of Education: Christopher Winch & John Gingell
Expectations of Student Outcomes vs Expectations of Lecturers of Philosophy ofEducation as a Post-Graduate Course: EIza Ventner & EIna Van Heerden
Fundamentals and Contemporary Challenges of Philosophy of Education: Alberto Diaz de Carvalho
Fundamentals of Gepeto’s Philosophy of Education: Paulo Ghirandelli
Gender and Social Justice: Penny Enslin
Nietzsche’s Legacy for Education: Michael Peters, Peter Fitzsimmons Ruth Irwin & Paul Smeyers
TBA: John Roe
A selection of papers from the conference was published in a Special Issue of Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 22, Nos. 3-4 (2003) edited by Marjorie O’Loughlin: ‘Continuity and Diversity: Philosophy of Education at the Beginning of the New Millennium’