Conference Archive PESA Conference 2015

Program

Re-engaging with politics: Re-imagining the university
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne   Sat 5 - Tues 8 December, 2015

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    Friday 4 December 2015

16:00 - 18:00

Pre Conference Executive Meeting
Venue: GN02

Saturday 5 December 2015

08:00 - 09:15

Registration
Venue: GN04

08:00 - 17:00

Speaker Preparation Room
Venue: GN02

09:15 - 10:00

Conference Opening
Venue: Philippa Brazill
Chair: John Ozolins

10:00 - 11:00

Inaugural Haynes' Lecture
Presentation Title: The Educational Importance of Communicative Virtues
Presenter:
Nicholas Burbules
Venue: Philippa Brazill

11:00 - 11:30

Morning Tea
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand 1 -
Chair: Jayne White

Strand 2 -
Chair: Maurizio Toscano

Strand 3 -
Chair: John Quay

Strand4 -
Chair: Steven Stolz

Strand 5 -
Chair: Scott Webster

Strand 6 -
Chair: David Beckett

11:30 - 12:00

Symposium: Lifting the publishing curtain: early career researchers, digital journals and the university project 2015 (048)

Presenters: Georgina Stewart, Marek Tesar, Liz Jackson, Michael A. Peters (Discussant Nick Burbules)

A strategy to raise the ranking of our journals

Group collaborative review of a 'live' manuscript (discussion)


Discussion with audience

Educating for Emotional Well-Being: The Dual-Edged Nature of Mindfulness Meditation (035)

The philosophy of language education in today's universities (156)

What has gone wrong with what we have learnt about friendship? (124)

A plea for reciprocity (050)

Ethics and fairness: challenging the binary of individualistic and communitarian perspectives (165)

 

Presenter: James Reveley

Presenter: Alan R. Libert

Presenter: Brian Mooney

Presenter: Peter Safronov

Presenter: Maurice Alford

12:00 - 12:30

Affect starts where the learning story ends (128)

Re-imagining the use of English in universities (105)

The eudaimonian question: neuroscience, virtues, ethics and the concept of character (113)

Re-imagining the university as a blended/online community of learners (154)

Leading the 'self' through higher education: a case of an 'advanced learning' program at Melbourne University (126)

 

Presenter: Barbara Scanlan

Presenter: Paul McBride

Presenter: Raymond A. Younis

Presenter: Thuy Vu

Presenters: Mahtab Janfada & David Beckett

12:30 - 13:00

 

 

The role of virtue education in the Philippines: prospects and promises (158)

Connected lives: encouraging democratic education through communal personhood (078)

 

 

 

 

Presenter: Bernardo N. Caslib, Jr.

Presenter: Maura Hobbs

13:00 - 1400

Lunch
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand1 -
Chair: Peter Roberts

Strand 2 -
Chair: John Quay

Strand 3 -
Chair: Georgina Stewart

Strand 4 -
Chair: David Beckett

Strand 5 -
Chair: Jayne White

Strand 6 -
Chair: Kirsten Locke

14:00 - 14:30

Symposum: Re-imagining learning spaces in schools and the university (095)

Presenters: Leon Benade, Andrew Gibbons, Wesley Imms, Sean Sturm, Alastair Wells (Discussant Kirsten Locke)

Understanding open learning spaces by the light of Henri Lefebrve

Innovative learning spaces - catalysts/agents for change, or 'just another fad'?

Clashing with pragmatism: exploring spatial democracy as a metaphysical commitment to critical pedagogy and transformative practice


This symposium continued in next session

Reimagining the university? Epistemic diversity, freeloading and wilful ignorance (076)

Globalism and the university: philosophy of education as global studies (046)

Internationalizing or internationalized? Rethinking knowledge production in higher education in post-neo-colonial Macau (049)

Education and video games: a theory of play (054)

Philosophy as a method: dwelling in the ruins of the surviving modernist omnipotent 'self' and the post-modern troubled discursive 'I' (122)

 

Presenters: Tracy Bowell & Carl Mika

Presenter: Tina Besley

Presenters: Yan Wang & Keang Ieng (Peggy) Vong

Presenter: Liam Miller

Presenter: Marek Tesar

14:30 - 15:00

Reflecting (in)differently in order to re-imagine the politically infused higher education classroom for pre-service teachers (014)

A contribution to the critique of the "global jinzai" concept: un-world, hikikomori (031)

Re-learning knowledge: bringing knowledge back in, but in what forms? (056)

Transformative experiencess in early childhood education (152)

Discourse of the end of the university (004)

 

Presenter: Karen Lambert

Presenter: Joff P. N. Bradley

Presenter: Jim Mackenzie

Presenter: Helen Pritchard

Presenter: Michael A. Peters

15:00 - 15:30

Title: The power of imagination: Derrida and " Text" in the educational field (012)

 

Learning to forget in the knowledge society (028)

Crafting experience (023)

 

 

Presenter: I-Lin Hwang

Presenter: Gerald Argenton

Presenter: John Freeman-Moir

15:30 - 16:00

Afternoon Tea
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand 1-
Chair: Peter Roberts

Strand 2 -
Chair: Scott Webster

Strand 3 -
Chair: Jennifer Bleazby

Strand 4 -
Chair: John Quay

Strand 5 -
Chair: Rachel Buchanan

Strand 6 -
Chair: Nesta Devine

16:00 - 16:30

Why MLE and not PLE? (continuing symposium) (097)

Presenter: Andrew Gibbons

The university as a place of possibilities (continuing symposium)

Presenter: Sean Sturm

 

Durkheim's critique of pragmatism and its implications for the recent university curriculum reform in Vietnam (151)

Thinking on a country path: rooting graduate enquiry and pedagogy by learning from the Zhongyong (中庸) (016)

What does the Heaven say? Humaneness and the heaven-human relationship in the Analects and its implications for environmental education (024)

Indonesian student experiences during thesis supervision  in higher education in Taiwan (066)

 

 

Presenter: Thi Kim Quy Nguyen

Presenter: Paul Gibbs

Presenters: I-Han Wang

Presenter: Rotua Zendrato

16:30 - 17:00

 

Scientific integrity: a Peircean pragmatist approach to the ethics of inquiry (114)

 

The eco-university in the anthropocene: responsibility on the threshold of extinction? (003)

The trouble with doctoral aspiration now (042)

 

 

Presenter: Catherine Legg

Presenter: Michael A. Peters

Presenter: James Burford

 

 

17:30 - 18:30

Welcome Event and Book Celebration
Venue: Rooftop Daniel Mannix (Wet Weather MGB South Café)

 

Sunday 6 December 2015

08:00 - 09:00

Registration
Venue: GN04

08:00 - 16:00

Speaker Preparation Room
Venue: GN02

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote Presentation
Presentation Title: "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought" (George Orwell)
Presenter:
Celia Hammond (Live via Video Conference)
Venue: Philippa Brazill
Chair: John Ozolins

10:00 - 1030

Morning Tea
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand 1-
Chair: Michael Peters

Strand 2 -
Chair: Andrew Gibbons

Strand 3

Strand 4 -
Chair: Nesta Devine

Strand 5 -
Chair: Christoph Teschers

Strand 6 -
Chair: Scott Webster

10:30 - 11:00

Symposium: The task of philosophy of education in East Asia (010)

Presenters: Morimichi Kato, Duck-Joo Kwak & Ruyu Hung

Confucius and Aristotle on virtue as embodiment

Implications of the 'Asia as method' approach for knowledge-production in educational studies

Confucian academic freedom? A cross-cultural inquiry into university related laws of Taiwan

Education and the ethics of attention: love and politics in the work of Simone Weil (058)

 

'It may not just be the fault of the government or the institution': exposing the maladies of neoliberalism by examining the political inner-workings of two Japanese university English programs (008)

Digital dilemmas and the mediation of the entrepreneurial self (142)

Unhappiness and education: a critical examination of happiness and education (094)

 

Presenter: Peter Roberts

 

Presenter: Glenn Toh

Presenters: Rachel Buchanan

Presenter: Liz Jackson

11:00 - 11:30

The ear of the Other: disrupting articulations in philosophy of education: (061)

 

Emancipation or neoliberalisation in Fiji education: teaching critical philosophy of education to teacher educators (053)

Digital citizenship - the new citizenship (162)

One must imagine 'the academic' happy (100)

 

Presenters: David Lines & Kirsten Locke

 

Presenter: Ruth Irwin

Presenter: Boris Handal

Presenter: Maurizio Toscano

11:30 - 12:00

Risk vs compassion: authenticity in social education (059)

 

Governmentality in early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand: The effects of a dominant neoliberal discourse on teacher practices with young gifted children (057)

Values education and digital citizenship: exploring a framework (161)

Should satisfaction be a higher educative aim? The case for contentment (020)

 

Presenter: Matthew Holt

Presenter: Andrea Delaune

Presenter: Sandra Lynch

Presenter: Paul Gibbs

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand 1-
Chair: Maurizio Toscano

Strand 2 -
Chair: John Quay

Strand 3 -
Chair: Jayne White

Strand 4 -
Chair: Marek Tesar

Strand 5 -
Chair: Peter Roberts

Strand 6 -
Chair: Kirsten Locke

13:00 - 13:30

Symposium: Aesthetic Education: Re-Imagining Knowledge (115)

Presenters: Elizabeth Grierson, Kirsten Locke, David Bell, Laura D'Olimpio, Christoph Teschers

Re-imagining the business of knowledge: an aesthetic approach to education for life

Working with Lyotard's 'immateril' as aesthetic pedagogy

The aesthetic lives of museums: re-imagining learning in museum settings

Playing with philosophy: gestures, performance, P4C and an art of living (034)

Language and personhood: is thinking culturally relative? (062)

Teaching as an act of moral answerability: Bakhtin's response to monologic teaching (088)

No-self, natural sustainability, and education for sustainable development (085)

Ethical remembrance and critical learning: towards a 'politics of hope' (075)

Relational ontology in education: motivations, meanings, and moralities (051)

 

Presenter: Laurence J. Splitter

Presenter: Iia De Vocht

Presenter: Chia-Ling Wang

Presenter: Matilda Keynes

Presenter: Michael J. Richardson

13:30 - 14:00

Considering sensate thought as meta-thematic to education (070)

A matter of respect: philosophical reflections on justice, inclusion and the education of disabled children (090)

Losing selfhood' and recouping autonomy through artistic endeavours - a stance between socio-political and individual spheres (112)

Literacy, politics and textbooks: a philosophical examination of the Brazilian federal programs for elementary education (065)

Committed to learn: re-imagining higher education (040)

 

Presenter: Simon McLellan

Presenter: Trish McMenamin

Presenter: Rosa Hong Chen

Presenter: Monica Maciel Vahl

Presenters: Robyn Barnacle & Gloria Dall'Alba

14:00 - 14:30

Beyond critique: some problems in the analysis of educational philosophy and action (080)

Re-imagining higher education through Jan Amos Comenius and its contemporary interpretation (009)

Is filial piety a virtue? A reading of the Xiao Jing (classic of filial piety) from the perspective of ideology critique (063)

Learning as 'awakening' in Freire and Cudworth: making sense of a counter-intuitive idea (083)

Pedagogy that provokes strategy and imagination in finance (089)

 

Presenter: Andrew Thompson

Presenter: Shinichi Sohma

Presenter: Hektor K. T. Yan

Presenter: Samuel Michael Kaldas

Presenter: Joy Whitton

14:30 - 15:00

Afternoon Tea
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand 1-
Chair: Eva Alerby

Strand 2 -
Chair: Scott Webster

Strand 3 -
Chair: Laura D'Olimpio

Strand 4 -
Chair: Liz Jackson

Strand 5 -
Chair: David Beckett

Strand 6 -
Chair: Georgina Stewart

15:00 - 15:30

E uiga lasi le va: the va is everlasting (044)

A new vision of equality in education: articulating an ideal of equal opportunity to fulfil one's potential (099)

"I used to think …. Now I think ….": understanding learners' understanding (148)

Development of education in Afghanistan (136)

At the interface: academic history, school history and the philosophy of history (159)

Re-imagining the public intellectual as 'horizontal intellectual': the nexus between elitism and intellectual in postcolonial Sri Lanka (153)

 

Presenter: Meripa Toso

Presenter: Kirsty Macfarlane

Presenter: Amy Austin

Presenter: Mohammad Naqi Akbari

Presenter: Tyson Retz

Presenter: Brian Jeganathan

15:30 - 16:00

'Learning space' and lack in the university: reimagining a 'space of possibilities' through pedagogies of desire and affect (101)

Quality education needs sustainable leaders (026)

Philosophy for children in Australia: then, now, and where to from here? (082)

Race, ethnicity and social justice in Australian schools (121)

Should we teach classics for all? The politics of humanities education in Asia Pacific universities (029)

 

 

Presenters: John Roder & David Lines

Presenter: Prathika Gounder

Presenters: Gilbert Burgh & Simone Thornton

Presenter: Matthew Weston

Presenter: Cheuk-Hang Leung

 

16:00 - 18:00

PESA AGM
Venue: Philippa Brazill

 

 

19:00 - 23:00

Conference Dinner
Venue - The Windsor
MC - Maurizio Toscano

   

Monday 7 December 2015

08:00 - 09:00

Registration
Venue: GN04

08:00 - 17:30

Speaker Preparation Room
Venue: GN02

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote Presentation
Presentation Title: University and its Reaching-Out in the Era of Globalization: An Intercultural Philosophical Reflection
Presenter:
Vincent Shen
Venue: Philippa Brazill
Chair: John Ozolins

10:00 - 1030

Morning Tea
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand 1-
Chair: Ruth Irwin

Strand 2 -
Chair: Laura D'Olimpio

Strand 3 -
Chair: Bruce Haynes

Strand 4 -
Chair: Leon Benade

Strand 5 -
Chair: Steven Stolz

Strand 6 -
Chair: Richard Heraud

10:30 - 11:00

Churning educational reforms and its impact on educational leadership and quality of education in Fiji (025)

From learning outcomes to educational possibilities: what happens when philosophical community inquiry works wonders with university students in Taiwan (144)

What is the ecological university and why is it a significant challenge for tertiary education policy and practice? (118)

Symposium: Embodiment, places and relationships: re-imagining genuine participation in higher education (086)

Presenters: Eva Alerby, Susanne Westman, Ruyu Hung & Sonja Arndt

Places and spatiality in higher education

Higher education as a place for co-creation: milieus opening for becoming-multiple-others

Echoes, tangents and welcomes: reimagining universities as 'spaces of life'

Engaging education with place and body

Do religious education and secular ethics education foster growth? An analysis of the New South Wales primary school ethics controversy (117)

Symposium: Postgraduates

The challenge of knowing what they are talking about: A series of professorial expositions on commonly used but not always explicitly engaged philosophical concepts.

 

 

Presenter: Prathika Gouder

Presenter: Jessica Ching-Sze Wang

Presenter: Robert Stratford

Presenter: Jennifer Bleazby

11:00 - 11:30

School leaders' perception and its impact on the effectiveness of school-based teacher PD: a case from Fiji. (150)

The Skills and Values of Inquiry (138)

Critical reflection on the subject of teaching and learning (052)

 

 

Presenter: Lalesh R. Sharma

Presenter: Peter Ellerton

Presenter: Kristina Adams

 

11:30 - 12:00

What can we know about school performance? (127)

 

 

 

 

Presenter: Dave Kinkead

 

 

 

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand 1-
Chair: Scott Webster

Strand 2 -
Chair: Michael Peters

Strand 3 -
Chair: John Quay

Strand 4 -
Chair: Tina Besley

Strand 5 -
Chair: Jennifer Bleazby

Strand 6 -
Chair: Maurizio Toscano

13:00 - 13:30

MacIntyre, managerialism and universities (005)

Teacher trainee and climate change education: experiential learning on understanding of sea level rise (146)

Are you an artist-teacher or art teacher? – distinguishing teacher political and epistemological modality in discipline and practice. (131)

Symposium: Women, philosophy and education (047)

Presenters: Nesta Devine, Georgina Stewart, Jayne White, Lynley, Sandy Farquhar, Kirsten Locke, Sonja Arndt, Margaret Stuart &Maggie Lyall

The case for women's voices in philosophy of education

Out of place in the university: re-locating 'the mother'

Feminine counterpoint in the academy: a toccata and fugue

Reifying the (un)educated woman: a discursive policy analysis

John Dewey's philosophy of education and ethics of social consequences (041)

Narratives of teacher education in contemporary higher education policy in Australia (092)

 

Presenter: Steven Stolz

Presenter: Runaaz Ali

Presenter: Matthew Barker

Presenter: Vasil Gluchman & Marta Gluchmanova

Presenter: Jenni Carter

13:30 - 14:00

Institutional isomorphism and the politics of performance-based governance in Australian universities (120)

An unquiet, public pedagogy: climate change and the call to 'thinking-feeling' arms (157)

Teaching's ethical encounter is a call for political action (084)

Democracy Values and Education (135)

Bringing epigenetics into the classroom: the need for an epigenetic whiplash on formal education (164)

 

Presenter: Peter Woelert

Presenter: Teresa Swist

Presenter: Emmanuel Skoutas

Presenter: Jānis Ozoliņš

Presenters: Daniel Frías Lasserre

14:00 - 14:30

Can accountability contribute or restrict university Diversity? Critical perspectives on teacher preparation programs evaluation in Taiwan and America. (064)

 

Trust and the professional teacher (033)

Reconsidering the 'affront' of universalism (104)

Learning and subjectivity in an age of social media: the re-politics of being a university student from the perspective of a university lecturer (038)

 

Presenter: Tze-Chang Liu

Presenter: Bruce Haynes

Presenter: Aristides Galatis

Presenter: Andrew Gibbons

14:30 - 15:00

Afternoon Tea
Venue: GN06/08

 

Strand 1-
Chair: Ruyu Hung

Strand 2 -
Chair: Christoph Teschers

Strand 3 -
Chair: Jennifer Bleazby

Strand 4 -
Chair: Steven Stolz

Strand 5 -
Chair: Maurizio Toscano

Strand 6 -
Chair: Peter Roberts

15:00 - 15:30

Knowing how students averse to interpersonal loss and re-thinking the assessment in university in Taiwan (141)

The Play University (098)

A tale of two cities and the struggle for education (081)

Teachers in Australian state and faith schools: re-engaging the political by being democratic (079)

Heideggerian temporality as an ethical framework for service learning as care in schools (134)

Evolutionary citizenship education: achieving democracy through the development of critical thinking deliberative citizens (147)

 

Presenter: Chung Chin Wu

Presenters: Anna Boswell, Sean Strum & Stephen Turner

Presenter: Jean-Michel David

Presenter: Audrey Statham

Presenter: Catherine Smith

Presenter: Luke Zaphir

15:30 - 16:00

Imagining the future in the image and dynamics of Nigeria's higher education: the philosopher's burden (006)

Everything we do is political: If there is no disruption, there are no new ideas (163)

Passionate pedagogical wisdom in education (077)

Undoing the sacred: the political imperative of humanism as the practice of secular criticism (116)

Heidegger on thinking: university learning and a leap into the abyss (145)

Re-democratising the education profession (123)

 

Presenter: Valentine Ntui

Presenter: Richard Heraud

Presenter: Rochelle Fogelgarn

Presenter: Stephan Chatelier

Presenter: Trevor Twaites

Presenter: Scott Webster

16:00 - 16:30

 

University Chiasmus (109)

Student unions, institutional governance & democracy (103)

Secularisation, individuation and interiorisation and the uncoupling of universities from intellectual inquiry (155)

Teaching as philosophizing: Heidegger's challenge to students and the university (149)

Groups' agency: some problems (129)

 

 

Presenter: Emile Bojesen

Presenter: Bernadette Farrell

Presenter: Greg Heath

Presenter: John Quay

Presenter: David Beckett

16:30 - 17:00

Conference Close
Venue: Philippa Brazill

             

Tuesday 8 December 2015

08:30 - 10:30

Post Conference Executive Meeting
Venue: GN02

11:00 onwards

Post Conference Touring Options
Melbourne Walking Tour & Yarra Valley Wine and Lunch Tour

             

Please note the program is subject to change