CONFERENCE

 

PESA CONFERENCE 2013

The 43rd Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Inc. will be held at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia, from 6-9 December 2013. PESA members and others attending the conference will be warmly welcomed to Melbourne, often touted as the world’s most livable city. The conference will bring us all together to focus on a matter that has distinguished much of educational discourse for more than a decade, hence our conference theme:

Measuring up in Education
We live and work in a time when the issues facing education, many of which have been with us for a considerable period, are being approached primarily through measurement: classroom assessment, research methods, standardized testing, international comparisons. Yet we do not often stop to consider what counts – and alternatively, what doesn’t count – in a climate where measuring up to a standard is the name of the game. At a deeper level, we rarely raise questions about measurement itself. What is measurement? What is a standard? How does measurement of education articulate with the purposes and potential of education? Questions such as these are sometimes expressed but seemingly never heard in the discourses which dominate. The aim of this conference is to create a space for such questioning by inviting an exchange of views around the issues pertaining to measurement as this influences the various discourses of education.

It is understood that this theme will be interpreted broadly, enabling discussion of a wide range of issues pertinent to the philosophy of education. Further details will soon be made available on the conference website, which is currently under construction.

 

CONFERENCES GENERAL INFORMATION

The annual PESA conference provides the major venue in Australasia for the presentation of research papers and discussions about philosophy of education. In recent years, the conference has been held in exotic locations, including Hong Kong (2005) and Hawaii (2009).

Conference Participation
The tradition of the Society is to provide a supportive environment for the presentation of papers and the encouragement of 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 AUD400. Applications should be lodged with the conference organiser, either at the conference or by email soon afterwards. There is a limited amount of money available and all payments are at the absolute discretion of the Treasurer.

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 most recent list, celebrated at the 2011 conference is available here

 

PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

• 2012 Taiwan (Ruyu Hung, National Chiayi University)
• 2011 Auckland (Nesta Devine, Andrew Gibbons, AUT University)
• 2010 Perth and Margaret River (Bruce Haynes, Felicity Haynes, Murdoch University and Tingrith Farm
• 2009 Hawaii (Hunter McEwan, University of Hawaii, Manoa)
• 2008 Brisbane (Eleanor Horton, Queensland University of Technology)
• 2007 Wellington (Robert Shaw, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand)
• 2006 Sydney (Jim Mackenzie, The University of Sydney)
• 2005 Hong Kong (Derek Sankey, Hong Kong Institute of Education)
• 2004 Melbourne (John Ozolins, Australian Catholic University)
• 2003 Auckland (Peter Fitzsimons, University of Auckland)
• 2000 Sydney (Marjorie O'Loughlin, University of Sydney - with INPE)
• 2002 Brisbane (Mark Freakley, All Hallows School)
• 2001 Perth (Bruce Haynes, Edith Cowan University)

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Conference 2012 Taiwan 7-10 December 2012
Theme: Education Crossing Boundaries

Call for papers

Conference Programme

Abstracts (yet to come)

Proceedings from 2012 (yet to come)

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Conference 2011 Auckland 1-4 December 2011
Theme: Educational Futures

Call for papers

Conference Programme and Abstracts

Proceedings from 2011 Conference (ISBN: 978-0-646-54993-4)

• A Deweyian Notion of Children's Participation Rights and its Implications for Education (Jennifer Bleazby, Monash University) PDF / Word
• An Anthropocentric Approach of Dewey's Philosophy of Education (Po-Nien Chen, Transworld University, Taiwan) PDF / Word
• Art for Dishonour - The Suffering of Others and Sympathy's Education (John Freeman-Moir, University of Canterbury) PDF / Word
• Bildung, Virtual Terrorism, and Digital Awakening- Towards a Pedagogy for a Discontinuous Future (Glenn-Egil Torgersen & Herner Sæverot, Norwegian Defense University College and University of Bergen, Norway) PDF / Word
• Bits, Bytes and Dinosaurs- Using Levinas and Freire to address the concept of 'Twenty-first Century Learning'; (Leon Benade, New Zealand Tertiary College) PDF / Word
• Boarding Schools- Educational heterotopias or allotopias (F. Delfim Santos, University of Canterbury) PDF / Word
• Deconstructing the Metanarrative of the 21st Century Skills Movement (Jim Greenlaw, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology, Canada) PDF / Word
• Does Philosophy of Education Have a Future (John A. Clark, Massey University) PDF / Word
• Education as spectacle (Trevor Thwaites, The University of Auckland) PDF / Word
• Effectiveness of Developing Pathways to University Entry for Low Socioeconomic Status Students (Swapan K. Saha, Vivian W. Y. Tam, Mary Hardie, University of Western Sydney) PDF / Word
• Exploring the Future Form of Pedagogy - Education and Eros (Inna Semetsky, University of Newcastle) PDF / Word
• Exploring Transformative Learning in the Open and Distance Learning Environment (Puvana Natanasabapathy, Josephine Bourke, Renu Joshi, Open Polytechnic) PDF / Word
• Heidegger's Reinscription of Paideia in the Context of Online Learning (Christopher Naughton & John Roder, New Zealand Tertiary College and The University of Auckland) PDF / Word
• Justice for All - Special Education 2000 and the politics of difference (Trish McMenamin, University of Canterbury) PDF / Word
• Luck, Choice and Educational Equality (John Calvert, University of Canterbury) PDF / Word
• Network or Net worth?: Deconstructing the Knowledge Society (Maxine Dyer, University of Canterbury)
• Paulo Freire's Educational Thought of Dialogue and Its Implications for Teachers and Teaching (Yi-Huang Syi, Ching Kuo Institute of Management and Health, Taiwan) PDF / Word
• Reclaiming paedeia in an age of crises- education and the necessity of wisdom (Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš, Australian Catholic University) PDF / Word
• Social Constructionism - A postmodern lens on the dynamics of social learning (Maurice Alford, Lytton High School) PDF / Word
• The Art of Living and Positive Psychology in Dialogue (Christoph Teschers, University of Canterbury) PDF / Word
• The Subject after Humanism - Towards an Open Subjectivity for Education (Guoping Zhao, Social Foundations of Education, Oklahoma State University) PDF / Word
• Theoretical considerations regarding Social Work Education - Do Ethics Matter and if so how do you teach them (Lester Thompson, Malcolm Pumpa, Charles Darwin University and Queensland University of Technology) PDF / Word
• Time for Experience- Growing up under the experience economy (Gerald Argenton, Tamagawa University, Japan) PDF / Word
• Towards a creative conception of philosophy of education - The implications of Deleuzian thinking (Ted Yu-Chung Liu, National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan) PDF / Word
• Understanding public organisations-collective intentionality as cooperation (Robert Shaw, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand) PDF / Word
• Utopia or Dystopia - A critical examination of the Melbourne Declaration (Rachel Buchanan, Amy Chapman, University of Newcastle and Australian Catholic University) PDF / Word

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Conference 2010 Perth and Margaret River 2-5 December 2010
Theme: Philosophy and Schools

Conference Programme, online slide show and unofficial report

Papers from 2010 conference:

• Benade, Leon. NZ. (1) Developing democratic dispositions and crap detection: Claims for classroom philosophy with special reference to Western Australia and New Zealand. PDF/ Word
• Benade, Leon. NZ. (56) An assessment of the use of philosophy for children (p4c) in a New Zealand classroom: can narrative methodology solve the practitioner-researcher problem?
• Besley, Tina. USA. (53) Philosophy, education and the corruption of youth—from Socrates to Islamic extremists. PDF/ Word
• Bleazby, Jennifer. VIC. (19) How classroom communities of philosophical inquiry may support effective e-learning.
• Clark, John. NZ. (59) Winch on learning.
• DeCesare, Anthony. USA. (39) High school philosophy, then and now: A surge of interest in the teaching of philosophy in American high schools from 1954-1968 and new possibilities for today. PDF/ Word
• Devine, Nesta. NZ. (13) Philosophy and schools: including indigenous and migrant philosophies in the deep functioning of schools.
• Doddington, Christine. UK. (34) The pedagogic art of philosophy. PDF/ Word
• Ergas, Oren. Israel. (24) Embodying philosophy through the yogic posture: Towards the healing of the philosophy/life dichotomy. PDF/ Word
• Farquhar, Sandy. NZ. (55) Children’s well-being in education.
• Fitzsimons, Peter. NZ. (50) Schools and the limits of philosophy. PDF/ Word
• Freeman-Moir, John. NZ. (9) Crafting experience: William Morris, John Dewey and Utopia.
• Gibbons, Andrew. NZ. (5) Where the child things are: Philosophy, children and questions concerning happiness in education.
• Griffiths, Morwenna. UK. (16) Rethinking the relevance of philosophy of education for educational policy making. PDF/ Word
• Hassan, Aminuddin, Nur Syuhada Jamaludin, Tajularipin Sulaiman and Roselan Baki . Malaysia. (6) Western and Eastern educational philosophies. PDF/ Word
• Heraud, Richard. NZ. (54) The problem of philosophising in the context of the event of learning. PDF/ Word
• Hung, Ruyu. Taiwan. (22) Educating for ecophilia through nature. PDF/ Word
• Hung, Ruyu. Taiwan. (23) Critical trilogy of place.
• Johansson, Viktor. Sweden. (38) “I am scared too”: Literature, ethics without moral concepts and the fear of schooling in Garmann’s Summer. PDF/Word
• Kim, Minkang. NSW. (29) Teaching moral philosophy in schools: Dynamic systems theory, teacher education & the issue of universality versus cultural diversity. PDF/ Word
• Knight, Sue and Carol Collins. QLD. (45) What must teacher education programmes do to open teachers’ minds to philosophy? PDF/ Word
• Locke, Kirsten. NZ. (25) Infancy: Aesthetic touch and the body.
• Lu, Szu-Yu. Taiwan. (58) Exploration of earth literacy and thinking of ecological ethics for children.
• Mayo, Elaine. NZ. (60) Lenses on theory and knowledge: A philosophy for today’s living practice.
• Mooney, Brian. Singapore. (44) Understanding Augustine’s De Magistro.
• Ozolins, John. VIC. (33) Liberal arts, generic skills and the aims of education. PDF/ Word
• Pearce, Jacob. VIC. (15) The importance of an historical, text-based year 12 philosophy course.
• Peters, Michael and Viktor Johansson. USA. (47) The historicity and subjectivity of philosophy of childhood. PDF/ Word
• Poulton, Janette. VIC. (35) A developmental framework for philosophy in the middle years.
• Roberts, Peter. NZ. (18) The stranger within: Dostoevsky’s underground. PDF/ Word
• Saeverot, Herner. Norway. (17) Bildung, God and the ethical school. PDF/ Word
• Sankey, Derek. NSW. (30) The emergent neurobiological self: Avoiding the pitfalls of dualism and materialism in philosophy for children classes in primary school. PDF/ Word
• Santos, Filipe. NZ. (3) Studying education through fiction and memoirs.
• Singh, Gita. India. (8) The Indian philosophical system and its educational relevance
• Splitter, Laurance. Hong Kong. (57) Analytic philosophy goes to school: Davidson on dialogue, truth and mind.
• Stewart, Georgina. NZ. (21) Kaupapa Māori philosophy and schools. PDF/ Word
• Stolz, Steven. QLD. (7) On justifying justifications of sport and physical education: Are there good reasons for the inclusion of sport and physical education within educational institutions? PDF/ Word
• Sutinen, Ari and Hannu Juuso. Finland. (52) Researching education in the context of philosophizing with children—theoretical background.
• Tapper, Alan. WA. (51) When did philosophy drop out of the school curriculum, and why?
• Teschers, Christoph. NZ. (2) “Lebenskunst” - Schmid ʼ s concept of the art of living. PDF/ Word
• Thompson Greg. WA. (32) Modulating power and ‘new weapons’: Taking aim at the ‘education revolution’. PDF/Word
• Thompson, Greg and Tomaž Lašič. WA. (20) That’s not for our kids: The strange death of philosophy and ethics in a low socioeconomic secondary school. PDF/ Word
• Thompson, Lester. QLD. (31) Teaching ethics in social work schools. PDF/ Word
• Ueno, Tetsu. Japan. (62) Limitations of professional ethics education for artists: A method to prevent fakes in Japan.
• Vanseileghem, Nancy. Belgium. (43) What is philosophy for children? From an educational experiment to experimental education. PDF/ Word
• White, Jayne. NZ. (46) Dialogic-dialectic: Epistemological alignment or ontologic provocation in schooling?
• Winch, Christopher. UK. (4) For philosophy of education in teacher education. PDF/ Word

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Conference 2009 Hawaii 3-6 December 2009
Theme: Dialogue and Difference

Papers from 2009 Conference:

• Conference Details
• Conference Programme
• Conference Proceedings

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Conference 2008 Brisbane 4-7 December 2008
Theme: The ownership and dissemination of knowledge

Papers from 2008 conference:

Conference Programme
Proceedings are published on CD (ISBN: 978-1-74107-291-4)

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Conference 2007 Wellington 6-9 December 2007
Theme: Creativity, Enterprise and Policy - New Directions in Education

Papers from 2007 conference:

List of Abstracts and Presenters
Proceedings are published on CD (ISBN: 978-0-909009-90-8)
CD 1: Abstracts for all papers (available at the conference).
CD 2: Full papers that have been refereed

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Conference 2006 Sydney 23-26 November 2006
Theme: Politics, business and education: The aims of education in the Twenty-First Century

Conference Programme

Papers from 2006 conference

• 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

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Conference 2005 Hong Kong 24-27 November 2005
Theme: Critical thinking and learning: values, concepts and issues

Conference Programme

Papers from 2005 conference:

• Quest for democratic citizenship in South Africa by Albert Arko-Cobbah
• The Relation Between Evidence and Action in the Assessment of Practice by Neil Brown
• How do critical thinking and learning function in the artist to artist/teacher relation? by Judith Carroll
• Incommensurable values in professional ethics by Yen-Hsin Chen
• Political consciousness and formative subjectivity by Ho Chia Chueh
• Anti-Oedipus in Education by David Cole
• Critical Thinking as the Source of Respect for persons by Christine Doddington
• Family and Identity in Early Childhood Education by Sandy Farquhar
• Bioethics, Genetic Technology and Education by Peter Fitzsimons
• Critical Thinking as an Educational Goal by Irene Fung
• Truth or making sense by Clinton Golding
• (Re)Visioning the Centre by Linda Graham
• The Condition of Artist as Global Cosmopolitan by Elizabeth Grierson
• Critical Thinking and Absolute truth by Bruce Haynes
• Exploring the Imagination to Establish Frameworks of Learning by Gregory Heath
• Creating the self: the inversion of a privilege by Richard Heraud
• Ch'i Nurturing in Contemporary Art and Design Practice and Education by King Tong Ho
• Critical Thinking as a Normative Practice by Kenny Huen
• Towards an open system in higher education by Xiao-ping Jiang
• What is the purpose of critical thinking in education in the post-modern era? by Duck Joo-Kwak
• Towards a Pedagogy of Difference by Muriel Law
• Learning, empowerment and judgement by Michael Luntley
• Certainties and censure by Janet Mansfield
• Four Paradigmatic Teachers by Hunter McEwan
• Learning to read educational compacts by Heinz-Dieter Meyer
• Popper's Third World, Moral Habits and Moral Habitat by John Ozolins
• Critical Thinking and the Challenge of Institutionalisation by Horst Pfeiffle
• Dichotomy or complexity by Janette Ryan and Kam Louie
• Living cells and sentient minds by Derek Sankey
• Moral stuttering: bioethics for teachers, anyone? by Inna Semetsky
• Heidegger's concept of truth at work in Western schools by Robert Shaw
• Educational praxis revisited by Robin Small
• Education in the New Age of Empire by Trevor Thwaites
• Critical Thinking about Truth in Teaching by Donald Vandenberg
• Critical Thinking Through Applied Ethics and the Problem of Advocacy by Kai Yee Wong
• Twisting the meaning of learning by Moira von Wright
• Being Human, and Human Beings: Agency At Work by David Beckett
• Simone de Beauvoir: ethics and accountability in education by James Marshall
• The Nature of Modern Schooling and the Question of Moral Education by Azra Kianinejad

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Conference 2004 Melbourne 26-28 November 2004
Theme: Education and Values

List of Abstracts

Papers from 2004 conference

• Being Literate in the World by Trevor Thwaites
• Debating Educational Values by John Ozolins
• Democracy, subject, education by Nesta Devine
• Education as Testimony - Conference Version by Peter Bennett
• Education and Values by Elizabeth Grierson
• Contingency, Curriculum and Solidarity by Henk Eijkman
• Between Europe and Africa by Penny Enslin
• The Problem of Forming Concepts
• Internationalizing "Individual" Grammar by Sandy Jump
• Acting With Things by David Beckett
• Learning Voice by Mark Wall
• Philosophy as Infinite Learning by Inna Semetsky
• Tolerance, Free Speech and Critical Thought by Ivan Snook
• Toward collective praxis in teacher education by H. Elaine Mayo
• Education and Dissent by Jim Mackenzie
• Can the synaptic self have values and make choices? by Derek Sankey
• The Educative value of values by R. Scott Webster
• The Forgotten Virtues by Peter Drum
• Values Education for the Virtue of Private Citizenship by Duck-JooKwak
• Towards a Heideggerian pedagogy by Robert Shaw
• Why should we regard teaching as a tradition? by Bruce Haynes

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Conference 2003 Auckland 28-29 November 2003
Theme: Education and Difference

Conference Programme

Papers from 2003 conference

List of Abstracts and Presenters (Abstracts)

Conference papers were not refereed in 2003, so no proceedings has been published.

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Conference 2002 Brisbane 30 Nov - 1 Dec 2002
Papers from 2002 conference:

• Pragmatism and Pedagogy by Gregory Heath
• If you're not with us, you're against us by Patrick Fitzsimons
• Rule Governed and Experimental Learning Levels of Complexity by Jim Walker
• Education as Encounter by John Ozolins
• Philosophical Accounts of Learning by Paul Hager
• Threshold Heidegger Education and Ecology by Ruth Irwin
• The Other Language Readding Taylor and Delueze Together by Inna Semetsky
• Sublime Heterogeneities in Curriculum Frameworks by Felicity Haynes
• Virtual Geography and the Academic Question of the University by Patrick Fitzsimons
• Nietzsche, Democracy and Education by Peter Fitzsimons

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Conference 2001 Perth 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2001
Papers from 2001 conference:

• Introduction to the 2001 Conference Papers
• Fundamental Principles, Post-Postmodernism and the Obligation to be Educated by Martin Bibby
• 'Added Value' in Education: A genealogical Discussion of the term and its Implications by Nesta Devine
• Conceptions of Globalisation, Virtual Geography and Education by Patrick Fitzsimons
• The Politics of Corruption in the 21st Century by Patrick Fitzsimons
• The Importance of Context and Judgement in Learning by Paul Hager and John Halliday
• Engagement and Disengagement with Education by Greg Heath
• Was the Piggy who went to Market Satisfied? Educational Aims in a Consumer Society Adrift by Brian Hill
• The Pedagogical Paradox and the Problem of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity by Michael Uljens