Conference 2010 Perth and Margaret River 2-5 December 2010

Theme: Philosophy and Schools

Conference Programme, 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 Maori 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 ' 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 Lašic. 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