2012: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Passion, Commitment and Justice in Education
15-18 August 2012
Keynote Speakers
The Ethics and Politics of the International Transfer of Educational Policy and Practice.
David Bridges, University of Cambridge, UK
The World of Instruction: Undertaking the Impossible.
Megan J. Laverty, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
The Terence H. McLaughlin Memorial Lectures
Education in Nonviolence: Levinas’s Talmudic Readings and the Study of Sacred Texts.
Hanan Alexander, University of Haifa, Israel
Islam, Democracy and Education for Non-Violence.
Yusef Waghid, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Full Concurrent Sessions Papers
From Narrative to Knowledge: Exploring the Epistemic Status of Narrative Research in Education.
Galit Caduri
How to Research Intercultural Hybridity of the Congolese Elite Through Education During the Postcolonial Era (1960-1997).
Marc Depaepe
Ethics, Educational Practice and the Politics of Education via Media.
Beatrice Dike
The Limitations of Research Findings behind the Veil of Subjectivity.
Guyo Doyo
A Space for 'Who', A Culture of 'Two': Speculations Related to an In-between Knowledge
Marit Honerød Holveid
Of Ants and Men: Epistemic Injustice, Commitment to Truth, and the Possibility of Outsider Critique in Education
Kai Horsthemke
‘Pointing the Way' in Buber's Philosophy: Education Based on the I-Thou Relationship.
Renato Huarte Cuéllar
Peace Education, Domestic Tranquility and Democracy
Kanako Ide
The Leap of Learning.
David Lewin
Ukama – A Contribution to Philosophy for Children in Africa
Amasa P. Ndofirepi
Facing the Void: Commitment in Life and Education
Richard Smith
Uncertainty in Teaching: On Stanley Cavell's Scepticism
Jade Tolentino
To Speak is Saying What Should not Be Said: An Account of a Philosophical Conversation with Children on ADHD.
Nancy Vansieleghem
Symposia
African Languages in Education?
Ushari Khalil, Moges Yigezu & Binyam Sisay
Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Education. Interpretation at Work and its Relation to Democracy
Stefan Ramaekers, Penny Enslin & Lesley LeGrange
Working Papers
Home and School in Ethiopian Education: A Discourse of the Child in Between
Moges Gebremariamand Abdu Ahmed
In Defense of Addis Ababa University
Dagnachew Assefa
Learning from the Narratives Children and Teachers Use to Describe their Experiences of Philosophy for Children (P4C)
Mark Charman
Narratives and Knowledge: Autoethnography as a Subjective Space of Knowledge Production
Nuraan Davids
Memoirs of Otherness and the Difficulties in Cultivating Cosmopolitanism in Global Citizenship Initiatives: Field Notes from a Malawi-Scotland Citizenship Schools Project
Joseph Divala
Autonomy and the Demands it Makes upon Teachers
Mikhail Gradovski
Apology of Humanities Education: Challenging the Current Politics of Science Education
Dereje Hibistu
Education in the Polarity between Reflexivity and Worldliness
Halvor Hoveid and Marit H. Hoveid
Is It Possible To Cultivate Freedom Together With The Restraint?
Zdenko Kodelja
Digging in the Dirt: Bearing Witness to the Art/i/fact
m.d. caroline Lefebvre
Foundations of Education Policy of Philosophy Teaching in Brazil
Samuel Mendonça
Reconstruction of Civic Identity in Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Aceh (Indonesia)
Jeffrey Milligan
On the Significance of the Social Justice Problems in the Modern Philosophy of Education
N. V. Nalivayko
Pedagogical Authority: The Problem of its Justification
Marisa Meza Pardo
Education Beyond the Order of the Madmen: Jacques Rancière on Being Attentive
Carl Anders Säfström
On the Possibilities of Democratic Citizenship Education in Namibia
Rachel Ndinelao Shanyanana
Various Aspects on Civility and Education in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Shin'ichi Sohma
The Social Dialectic between Ethos and Utopia in Educational Contexts
Daniel Tello
On the Educational Potential of Happiness: An Analysis of its Implications for Disadvantaged Schools in South Africa
Anlerie Marlese Truter
The Puzzles and the Invisible in Parenting
Wu YanFei
The Capability Approach as a Framework for Assessing and Re-Imagining Social and Educational Inclusion for Agro Pastoralists in Ethiopia
Jana Zehle
Ethiopian Learning Paradigm
Yikunnoamlak Mezgebu Zerabiruk
Windows Into Ethopian Education
Ethics and Privacy: Sentiments Of End-Users Using Public Computers In The Third-World Countries Higher Education
Temesgen Abera & France Bélanger
PowerPoint Presentation and Its Implications for Warmth Communication
Amera Seifu Belayneh
Liberal Education: A Policy Dilemma in Higher Education in the Third World
Temesgen Fereja
The Dynamics of Bullying in Selected Schools in Mekelle: A Communication Perspective
Abate Kassahun
Dislodging the Idea of a University: An Essay
Setargew Kenaw
Plasma-based Instruction in Ethiopia: Utopia or Dystopia?
Berhanu Abera Kibret
Schooling and Inequality in Ethiopia: A Case Study of Students’ National Learning Achievements
Teshome Nekatibeb
Political Economy of Higher Education in Ethiopia: Critique of Neo-Liberalism
Habtamu Alebachew Simesh
What It Means to be Responsive to Learning Inequalities by Higher Education Leadership: A Phenomenological Approach
Kedir Assefa Tessema
Enhancing Commitment of Collaborators and Partners to Actively Participate in the Delivery of IFAL Programs in areas Considered Difficult (The Case in Gambella Regional State)
Yadessa Tolossa Woyessa
Language Ideology as a Locus of Language in Education Policy and Planning
Mekonnen Alemu Gebre Yohannes
The Politics of Mother Tongue Education in Ethiopia: Uncovering the Major Controversies
Yonattan Araya Zemaryam