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Conference theme:
The ownership and dissemination of knowledge:
Different ways of thinking about and understanding knowledge.
The knowledge industry.
How well do the current metaphors of creation, performance, ownership and exchange serve us?
Eleanor Horton
Enquiries should be sent to the conference
organiser, Eleanor Horton, e.horton@qut.edu.au
Conference
participation
The tradition of our Society is to provide a supportive
environment for those who present papers and to pursue a more profound
understanding of practical and theoretical issues in education. Those
new to the philosophy of education are always welcome.
Conference
subsidy
Financial support is available for some society members
who attend annual conference and present a successfully refereed paper.
To be eligible an applicant must be either a postgraduate student or
retired. The support is in the form of a subsidy for conference-related
expenses, for which receipts will be required. In each case the maximum
subsidy is $A400. Applications should be lodged with the Treasurer either
at the conference or by email soon afterwards (b.haynes@pesa.org.au).
There is a limited amount of money available and all payments are at
the absolute discretion of the Treasurer.
Subsidy manager,
Bruce Haynes
Conference 2007
Tihei mauri ora!
E ngä mana, e ngä reo, e ngä mätä waka o te motu, o täwahi anö hoki, nau mai
häere mai ki Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui, i runga ano hoki i ngä ähuatanga
o te wa.
Nä reira, Nau mai! Haere mai!
To you our distinguished guests, the descendants of all the canoes, tribes, and
communities throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, including those from overseas, welcome
to Wellington, I hope your stay in our region will be one to remember.
Therefore, Welcome to you all!
Paul Grimwood, Chief Executive - The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
- He Wharekura-tini Kaihautü o Aotearoa, Aotearoa New Zealand
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand is proud to host the 2007 conference
of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.
Creativity, Enterprise and Policy - New Directions in Education
6 - 9 December 2007
Theme
The theme for the conference is Creativity, Enterprise, Policy - New
Directions in Education. The peoples of our region seek success within social democratic systems
of administration. The theme of the conference provides an opportunity
to explore in depth the current issues that confront nations, the adequacy
of goals, the relationship between the needs of people and the needs
of society, and the concomitant critical challenges for education policy.
The theme suggests philosophical explorations about:
- Enterprise culture
- Creativity in schools
- Creative NZ/creative Australia - policy goals and issues
- The creative arts
- Maori/Pacific arts
- Links between creativity and enterprise
- The creative economy
- Is education a creative industry?
- Can creativity be taught?
- Curriculum, creativity and enterprise
- The rise of the entrepreneurial self.
Papers with other philosophical bearings on education
are also welcome.
Celebration of books published by Members
Those attending the conference should bring copies of
books they have published during the last year for acknowledgement by
the Society. The
current list of recent works>
Programme, abstracts, papers
Papers
and presenters>
Conference
timetable>
Conference
sessions and times>
The conference proceedings published on cd and consist
of two volumes:
- Abstracts for all papers (available at the conference).
- Full papers that have been refereed.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,
on another perfect Wellington evening.
Resources from conferences prior
to 2007
Papers from the 2006 conference in Sydney:
- Keynote address to PESA
- Spinoza, Selfhood And the Australian Taxation Office:'Where there's a will…there's a reason' by David Beckett
- Autonomy, Democratic Community, and Citizenship in Philosophy for Children: Lipman and Dewey's rejection of the individual/community dualism by Jennifer Bleazby
- Selfhood, education and just institutions by Sandy Farquhar
- Contesting Conceptions of Giftedness by Felicity Haynes
- Michel Foucault: Genealogy and Research by Patrick Fitzsimons, Eleanor Horton
- The nature of philosophical questions by Clinton Golding
- Feminist Imperative(s) In Education:Philosophy, Theory, Or What Matters Most by E. Gould
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind/Out of Mind, Out of Site: Schooling and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by Linda J. Graham
- Creativity, Culture and Identity: Questions of art and art education in a global knowledge economy by Elizabeth Grierson
- The Place of Learning by Paul Hager
- A Problem: Teaching to Brain-based Mind in the Classroom by Christine Hale
- Trust and Research by Bruce Haynes
- Constructing Your Mathematical Subjectivity In Different Mathematical Level-Groups by Karin Hultman
- Performativity, Performance and Education by Kirsten Locke
- A Portrait of the Teacher as Artist: The Example of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Hunter McEwan
- Positivism And Constructivism, Truth And "Truth" by Jim Mackenzie
- Foucault, Educational Research and the Issue of Autonomy by Mark Olssen
- From the Crick Report to the Parekh Report: Multiculturalism, cultural difference, and democracy - the re-visioning of citizenship education by Mark Olssen
- Brothers and sisters together: On the idea of common human nature by John Ozolins
- Public Knowledge Cultures by Michael A Peters & Tina Besley
- Neoliberalism, Performativity And Research by Peter Roberts
- A Matter of Life and Death by Peter Roberts
- Understanding deconstruction as an "exorbitant method" in educational research by Hillevi Lenz Taguchi
- Aiming for World Peace by Promoting 'Violence' in Education by R. Scott Webster
- Language Games, Postmodernism and Deconstruction: On Socratic Method and Questioning as "Therapy" by Raymond Aaron Younis
AGM Documents 2006
Papers from the 2005 conference in Hong Kong:
AGM Documents 2005
Papers from the 2004 in Melbourne:
Papers from the 2002 in Auckland:
Papers 2001:
AGM Documents 2001
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