John Dewey Society Sessions at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Chicago

The John Dewey Society Annual Symposium: The Way Out of the Educational Confusion

            Time: Monday, April 9, 2:15-3:45 p.m.

            Place: The Fairmont Chicago, Gold Room, Second Level

            Participants: David C. Berliner (Arizona State University)

                                    Susan H. Fuhrman (Teachers College, Columbia)

                                    Peter S. Hlebowitsh (University of Iowa)

                                    Daniel Tanner (Rutgers)

                                    William G. Wraga (University of Georgia)

            Chair:                         Larry A. Hickman (Southern Illinois University)

The John Dewey Society Annual Lecture: Is Culture Responsible? Jane Addams Calls It to Account

            Time: Monday, April 9, 4:05-6:05 p.m.

Place: The Fairmont Chicago, Gold Room, Second Level

            Speaker:          Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University)

            Chair:                         Larry A. Hickman (Southern Illinois University)

John Dewey Society Annual Reception

            Time: 6:15-7:45

Place: The Fairmont Chicago, Gold Room, Second Level

Jane Addams and Today’s Classroom: AERA Offsite Visit to Hull House (online pre-registration required; space limited)

            Time: Tuesday, April 10, 3:30-7:00 p.m.

            Place: Hull House Museum, University of Illinois-Chicago

            Cost: $10 for transportation from designated hotel. You must register online

through AERA.

            Sponsor: SIG John Dewey Society

            Session Organizer: David W. Schaafsma (University of Illinois-Chicago)

            Participants:   Petra Hendry (Louisiana State University)

                                    Bridget O’Rourke (Elmhurst College)

                                    Antonio Tendero (Grand Valley State University)

                                    Susan Griffith (Central Michigan State University)

                                    Todd DeStigter (University of Illinois-Chicago)

John Dewey Society SIG Business Meeting

            Time: Tuesday, April 10, 6:15-8:15 p.m.

            Place: The Fairmont Chicago, Embassy Room, Second Level

            Participants: Officers, board members, members of the society

Commission on Social Issues: Social Issues Workshop

            Time: Wednesday, April 11, 9:45-11:15 a.m.

            Place: Marriott, Ohio State room, Sixth Floor

            Session Organizer: 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 and all members of the John

Dewey Society and guests

Topics in Dewey Studies: Paper Discussions

            Time: Wednesday, April 11, 12:25-1:05 p.m.

Place: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Ballroom, Sections C-D, East Tower, Gold

Level

            Participants:

            Steven K. Wojcikiewicz and Zach B. Mural (Michigan State University): Dewey

Goes to Sea: The Deweyan Educative Environment in Sail Training and

Sailing Instruction

Susan Jean Mayer (Independent Scholar): Dewey, Vygotsky, and the Activity

Theorists: Shared Concerns

            Scot Danforth (Ohio State University): John Dewey and the Education of

Students With Intellectual Disabilities

            Bertram C. Bruce (University of Illinois): Rethinking the Scholarship of Teaching

and Learning From a Deweyan Perspective

Catharine D. Bell (University of Chicago): Teaching Dewey’s Method of

Intelligence to an Eighth-Grade Class

            R. W. Hildreth (Southern Illinois University): The Radical Lack of Ends in

Dewey’s Educational Thought

Patrick M. Jenlink (Stephan F. Austin State University): Transforming the

School Into a Democratically Practiced Place: Dewey’s Democracy as

Spatial Practice

Dewey’s Democracy Revisited: What Would Dewey Say About Teacher Preparation and Learning Today?

            Time Wednesday, April 11, 2:15-3:45 p.m.

            Place: The Fairmont Chicago, ambassador Room, Second Level

Participants: Patrick M. Jenlink (Stephan F. Austin State University),            Session Organizer

                        Elizabeth Meadows (Roosevelt University): Dewey, Democracy, and

Teacher Education: What Do People in a Democracy Need to Learn,

and How Do Teachers need to be Educated

                        Peter S. Hlebowitsh (University of Iowa): The Progressive Idea of the

Curriculum Standard: Dewey’s Criteria of Good Aims

                        Jarod M. Lambert (Stephan F. Austin State University): The Democratic

Founds of Social Education: Dewey Revisited

                        David R. Hollier (St. Edward’s University): Web-Based instruction: What

Would John Dewey Think?

                        Discussants: James W. Fraser (New York University)

                                                Karen Embry Jenlink (St. Edward’s University)

John Dewey Society Sponsored Off-Site Program: Tour of Paseo Boricua

Date: Wednesday, April 11

Time 4:30 p.m. – 9:30 pm

Location: Puerto Rican Cultural Center, 2739-41 W. Division Street

Cost: $30 (includes bus transportation, program, and dinner)

Transportation: A bus will collect participants from the front of the Fairmont Chicago hotel at 4:30 p.m. and return there at 9:30 p.m.

Paseo Boricua, with its motto of ‘live and help others to live’ is renowned for its multigenerational and holistic community activism around human rights and social change and, in particular is model of learning in which ‘the community is the curriculum.’ With its many academic partnerships, Paseo Boricua also provides an outstanding example of university-community collaboration in research, teaching and public engagement.

The one-hour tour will visit the Puerto Rican Cultural Center and key organizations in the neighborhood, including the community library and media center, the Family Learning Center, Café Teatro Batey Urbano, and the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School.   The tour is followed by dinner and a program presented by the National Boricua Human Rights Network: “Political Repression and Human Rights in the Puerto Rican Context.” Special speakers at the program include Dr. Luis Nieves Falcon, noted sociologist and educator who has played a leading role in the campaign to free Paseo Boricua’s political prisoners.

Organizers: Bertram (Chip) Bruce, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, chip@uiuc.edu; Laura Ruth Johnson, Northern Illinois University (lrjohnson@niu.edu); Alejandro Luis Molina, National Boricua Human Rights Network and Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School (alejandro@prcc-chgo.org); and José E. López, Executive Director, Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

Please RSVP to Chip Bruce: chip@uiuc.edu; 217.244.3576

Science, Ethics, and Aesthetics: Rethinking Experience and Education

            Time: Thursday, April 12 8:15-10:15 a.m.

Place: The Fairmont Chicago, Ambassador Room, Second level

Participants:

Matthew P. Pamental (Northern Illinois University): Dewey and the Science of

Ethics: Implications for Ethics and Moral Education

Jiwon Kim (Purdue University): Dewey’s Account: Aesthetic Experience and

Moral Education

Deron R. Boyles (Georgia State University) and Philip Edward Kovac         (University of Alabama-Huntsville): Questioning Scientism and

Interpretation: John Dewey and Scientific Research in Education

            Aaron M. Schutz (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): John Dewey Versus the

Liberationists: Rethinking Experience and Education

            Chair: Craig A. Cunningham (National-Louis University)

            Discussant: Craig A. Cunningham (National-Louis University)

Issues in Dewey Studies: Paper Discussions

            Time: Thursday, April 12, 2:15-2:55

            Place: Hyatt regency Chicago, Grand Ballroom, Sections C-D North, East Tower,

Gold Level

            Participants:

            Leonard Waks (Temple University): Charter Schools and Public Places

            Randall Scott Hewitt (University of Central Florida) and William Gaudelli

            (Teachers College, Columbia): Dewey, Aesthetics, and Social Issues

Rita Nawrocki-Chabin (Alverno College): Hang in There, John: Dewey’s

            Continuing Influence

            Huajun Zhang (Florida State University): John Dewey’s Travel to China: What

Message Did He Deliver for china’s Modern Transition During 1919-1921?

            Jeanne M. Connell (University of Illinois): The Pleasure and Dangers of Being

Cited: Pragmatic Philosophy’s Contribution to the Problems of Interpretation

            Matthew P. Pamental and Lisa C. Yamagata-Lynch (Norhern Illinois Unverity):

Transactional Moral ecucaiton: Dewey v. Vygotsky