John Dewey Society Sessions at the 2008 Annual Meeting in New York
Ethics, Policy, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism.
Time: Monday, March 24, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Soho Complex, Olmstead Room, 7th Floor.
Participants:
Matthew P. Pamental (Northern Illinois University).
Between Deontology and Teleology: Dewey’s Reconstruction of Ethics and the Goals of Moral Education.
Eric Bredo (University of Virginia).
Is Educational Policymaking Rational? Policymaking in the Light of
Alternative Conceptions of Rationality.
Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon (University of Tennessee).
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Barber’s Strong Democracy.
Richard A. Pring (Oxford University).
John Dewey and 21st Century Education: A View From the United
Kingdom.
David T. Hansen (Columbia University).
Dewey as a Cosmopolitan Philosopher.
Discussant: Christine L. McCarthy (University of Iowa).
The John Dewey Society Annual Lecture: The Schools We Need - The Role of Education in Developing and Empowering Marginalized Communities.
Time: Monday, March 24 , 4:05p.m.-6:05p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square/Astor Ballroom, 7th Floor.
Speaker: Pedro A. Noguera (New York University).
The Schools We Need - The Role of Education in Developing and
Empowering Marginalized Communities
John Dewey Society Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: John I. Goodlad and Steven C. Rockefeller.
Chair: Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech University).
The John Dewey Society Annual Reception.
Time: Monday, March 24, 6:15 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square / Astor Ballroom Pre-Function,
7th Floor.
The John Dewey Society Annual Symposium: Uncloistered Scholars and Community-School Engagement.
Time: Tuesday, March 25 10:35 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square / Westside Ballroom, Salon 1,
5th Floor.
Participants:
Ira Harkavy (University of Pennsylvania).
Derrick P. Alridge (University of Georgia).
Mary John O'Hair (University of Oklahoma).
Carl D. Glickman (University of Georgia).
Chair: Jim Garrison (Virginia Tech University).
Issues in Dewey Studies: Paper Discussions.
Time: Tuesday, March 25 - 1:15 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Broadway Ballroom, Broadway
North, 6th Floor.
Participants:
Benjamin W. Blair (Teachers College, Columbia University).
Appropriating the ‘When’: Dewey’s Experience and Nature as
Critique of Floden’s Occasions for Educational Philosophy.
Candace Kaye (New Mexico State University).
Images of the Lived Situation of Dewey in China: A Visual
Ethnographic Analysis.
Steven Mcgee (Learning Partnership).
Looking Beyond Academic Achievement for Inspiring the Next
Generation.
Jiwon Kim (Purdue University).
Rethinking John Dewey's Democracy for Korean Education.
Steven K. Wojcikiewicz (Western Oregon University).
The Good Students: A Study of the Culture of High Achievement in a High School History Class.
Carolyn Logue Berenato (Saint Joseph's University).
The Influence of John Dewey's Educational Philosophy on the
Barnes Foundation's Art Educational Experience.
The John Dewey Society Business Meeting
Time: Tue, Mar 25 at 6:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square / Harlem Room, 7th Floor.
Topics in Dewey Studies: Paper Discussions
Time: Wednesday, March 26, 10:35 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square / Broadway Ballroom
Broadway North, 6th Floor
Participants:
Benjamin D. Branch (North Carolina State University), Paul Franklin Bitting (North Carolina State University).
Dewey and a Spatial Thinking Culture.
Vivienne Marie Baumfield (University of Glasgow), Steven Edward Higgins (Durham University).
Child and the Curriculum In The 21st Century: The Relationship
Between Enquiry and Inquiry in the Classroom.
Greg Seals (College of Staten Island - CUNY).
Clearing Some Ground to Hold Dewey’s Discussion of Education
Itself.
Will E. Penny (Concordia University).
Dewey and Modern Physical Education: A Look Back and Ahead.
Mihye Won (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), Bertram C. Bruce (University of Illinois).
Inquiry and Science Education: Does It Fulfill Dewey’s Dream?
Patrick M. Jenlink (Stephen F. Austin State University).
Learning to Lead Democratically in a Changing Society: Leadership
Preparation and Dewey’s Democracy.
Hongmei Peng (University of Tennessee).
Toward a Fully Realized Human Being: Dewey’s Active-
Individual-as-a-Societal-Contributor-Always-in-the-Making.
Commission on Social Issues: Social Issues Workshop
Time: Wednesday, March 26, 12:25 p.m.-1:55 p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, Marquis Ballroom, Salon A, 9th
Floor
Session Organizers: Craig Cunningham and Leonard Waks
The commission is charged (1) to facilitate communications to the public by members of JDS on educational, social, and cultural issues, and (2) to prepare and distribute occasional position papers on such issues and to report to the board annually on its activities.
The workshop will consider how members of the John Dewey Society can contribute effectively to the resolution of educational, social and cultural issues, and how the commission can best facilitate this work.
Participants: Officers of the Commission, all members of the John
Dewey Society, and guests
Examining the Role of Dewey’s Democratic Education in Society: Considerations for the Public and Its Problems Today.
Time: Wednesday, March 26, 2:15 p.m.- 3:45 p.m.
Place: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square / Soho Complex, Soho/Herald
Room, 7th Floor.
Participants:
Patrick M. Jenlink (Stephen F. Austin State University).
Session Organizer.
Elizabeth Meadows (Roosevelt University).
Achieving Widespread, Democratic Education in the United States
Today: Dewey’s Ideas Reconsidered.
Raymond A. Horn (Saint Joseph's University).
The Essential Question Concerning the Promotion of Democracy
through Education.
John Leonard (Stephen F. Austin State University) and Lee Stewart (Stephen F. Austin State University).
The Mis-Underestimation of the Value of Aesthetics in Public
Education.
Rosalie M. Romano (Ohio University).
Revisiting “Education and Our Present Social Problems”: Dewey’s
Call to Action.
Patrick M. Jenlink (Stephen F. Austin State University).
Schools as Democratically Practiced Places for the Public: Dewey’s
Democracy Reconsidered.
Chair: Lee Stewart (Stephen F. Austin State University).
Discussant: Robert J. Starratt (Boston College).