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Friday 4 December 2015 |
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16:00 - 18:00 |
Pre Conference Executive Meeting |
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Saturday 5 December 2015 |
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08:00 - 09:15 |
Registration |
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08:00 - 17:00 |
Speaker Preparation Room |
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09:15 - 10:00 |
Conference Opening |
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Inaugural Haynes' Lecture |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Morning Tea |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Symposium: Lifting the publishing curtain: early career researchers, digital journals and the university project 2015 (048) |
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) |
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Presenter: James Reveley |
Presenter: Alan R. Libert |
Presenter: Brian Mooney |
Presenter: Peter Safronov |
Presenter: Maurice Alford |
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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) |
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Presenter: Barbara Scanlan |
Presenter: Paul McBride |
Presenter: Raymond A. Younis |
Presenter: Thuy Vu |
Presenters: Mahtab Janfada & David Beckett |
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12:30 - 13:00 |
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The role of virtue education in the Philippines: prospects and promises (158) |
Connected lives: encouraging democratic education through communal personhood (078) |
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Presenter: Bernardo N. Caslib, Jr. |
Presenter: Maura Hobbs |
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13:00 - 1400 |
Lunch |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
Symposum: Re-imagining learning spaces in schools and the university (095) |
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) |
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Presenters: Tracy Bowell & Carl Mika |
Presenter: Tina Besley |
Presenters: Yan Wang & Keang Ieng (Peggy) Vong |
Presenter: Liam Miller |
Presenter: Marek Tesar |
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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) |
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Presenter: Karen Lambert |
Presenter: Joff P. N. Bradley |
Presenter: Jim Mackenzie |
Presenter: Helen Pritchard |
Presenter: Michael A. Peters |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Title: The power of imagination: Derrida and " Text" in the educational field (012) |
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Learning to forget in the knowledge society (028) |
Crafting experience (023) |
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Presenter: I-Lin Hwang |
Presenter: Gerald Argenton |
Presenter: John Freeman-Moir |
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Why MLE and not PLE? (continuing symposium) (097) |
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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) |
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Presenter: Thi Kim Quy Nguyen |
Presenter: Paul Gibbs |
Presenters: I-Han Wang |
Presenter: Rotua Zendrato |
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16:30 - 17:00 |
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Scientific integrity: a Peircean pragmatist approach to the ethics of inquiry (114) |
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The eco-university in the anthropocene: responsibility on the threshold of extinction? (003) |
The trouble with doctoral aspiration now (042) |
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Presenter: Catherine Legg |
Presenter: Michael A. Peters |
Presenter: James Burford |
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17:30 - 18:30 |
Welcome Event and Book Celebration |
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Sunday 6 December 2015 |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Registration |
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08:00 - 16:00 |
Speaker Preparation Room |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote Presentation |
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10:00 - 1030 |
Morning Tea |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Symposium: The task of philosophy of education in East Asia (010) |
Education and the ethics of attention: love and politics in the work of Simone Weil (058) |
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'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) |
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Presenter: Peter Roberts |
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Presenter: Glenn Toh |
Presenters: Rachel Buchanan |
Presenter: Liz Jackson |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
The ear of the Other: disrupting articulations in philosophy of education: (061) |
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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) |
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Presenters: David Lines & Kirsten Locke |
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Presenter: Ruth Irwin |
Presenter: Boris Handal |
Presenter: Maurizio Toscano |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Risk vs compassion: authenticity in social education (059) |
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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) |
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Presenter: Matthew Holt |
Presenter: Andrea Delaune |
Presenter: Sandra Lynch |
Presenter: Paul Gibbs |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 - 13:30 |
Symposium: Aesthetic Education: Re-Imagining Knowledge (115) |
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) |
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Presenter: Laurence J. Splitter |
Presenter: Iia De Vocht |
Presenter: Chia-Ling Wang |
Presenter: Matilda Keynes |
Presenter: Michael J. Richardson |
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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) |
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Presenter: Simon McLellan |
Presenter: Trish McMenamin |
Presenter: Rosa Hong Chen |
Presenter: Monica Maciel Vahl |
Presenters: Robyn Barnacle & Gloria Dall'Alba |
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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) |
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Presenter: Andrew Thompson |
Presenter: Shinichi Sohma |
Presenter: Hektor K. T. Yan |
Presenter: Samuel Michael Kaldas |
Presenter: Joy Whitton |
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14:30 - 15:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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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) |
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Presenter: Meripa Toso |
Presenter: Kirsty Macfarlane |
Presenter: Amy Austin |
Presenter: Mohammad Naqi Akbari |
Presenter: Tyson Retz |
Presenter: Brian Jeganathan |
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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) |
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Presenters: John Roder & David Lines |
Presenter: Prathika Gounder |
Presenters: Gilbert Burgh & Simone Thornton |
Presenter: Matthew Weston |
Presenter: Cheuk-Hang Leung |
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16:00 - 18:00 |
PESA AGM |
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19:00 - 23:00 |
Conference Dinner |
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Monday 7 December 2015 |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Registration |
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08:00 - 17:30 |
Speaker Preparation Room |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote Presentation |
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10:00 - 1030 |
Morning Tea |
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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) |
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.
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Presenter: Prathika Gouder |
Presenter: Jessica Ching-Sze Wang |
Presenter: Robert Stratford |
Presenter: Jennifer Bleazby |
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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) |
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Presenter: Lalesh R. Sharma |
Presenter: Peter Ellerton |
Presenter: Kristina Adams |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
What can we know about school performance? (127) |
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Presenter: Dave Kinkead |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
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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) |
John Dewey's philosophy of education and ethics of social consequences (041) |
Narratives of teacher education in contemporary higher education policy in Australia (092) |
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Presenter: Steven Stolz |
Presenter: Runaaz Ali |
Presenter: Matthew Barker |
Presenter: Vasil Gluchman & Marta Gluchmanova |
Presenter: Jenni Carter |
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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) |
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Presenter: Peter Woelert |
Presenter: Teresa Swist |
Presenter: Emmanuel Skoutas |
Presenter: Jānis Ozoliņš |
Presenters: Daniel Frías Lasserre |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
Can accountability contribute or restrict university Diversity? Critical perspectives on teacher preparation programs evaluation in Taiwan and America. (064) |
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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) |
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Presenter: Tze-Chang Liu |
Presenter: Bruce Haynes |
Presenter: Aristides Galatis |
Presenter: Andrew Gibbons |
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14:30 - 15:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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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) |
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Presenter: Chung Chin Wu |
Presenters: Anna Boswell, Sean Strum & Stephen Turner |
Presenter: Jean-Michel David |
Presenter: Audrey Statham |
Presenter: Catherine Smith |
Presenter: Luke Zaphir |
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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) |
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Presenter: Valentine Ntui |
Presenter: Richard Heraud |
Presenter: Rochelle Fogelgarn |
Presenter: Stephan Chatelier |
Presenter: Trevor Twaites |
Presenter: Scott Webster |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
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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) |
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Presenter: Emile Bojesen |
Presenter: Bernadette Farrell |
Presenter: Greg Heath |
Presenter: John Quay |
Presenter: David Beckett |
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16:30 - 17:00 |
Conference Close |
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Tuesday 8 December 2015 |
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08:30 - 10:30 |
Post Conference Executive Meeting |
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11:00 onwards |
Post Conference Touring Options |
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Please note the program is subject to change |