Student Awards:

Types of awards

Selection Criteria

Winners

Types of Awards

1. SPSE Graduate Student Award ($100.00 Society Treasury) Established in 1985

2. Dr. Michael Oliker Award ($100.00 courtesy Mrs. Marge Oliker) Established in 2003

3. Father Walter Krolikowski Award ($100 replaces one of the two SPSE awards) Established in 2007

Selection Criteria:

1. Must present paper at one of the Society's annual conferences

2. Meet scholarly criteria, including literature review, scholarly references, sensible analysis

3. Make a contribution to the field of educational philosophy, including generating new knowledge, facilitating new understanding, or inspiring new insights among peers

4. Demonstrate significant degree of background knowledge, including knowledge of presentation topic

5. Maintain a high level of quality of presentation, including excellent oral or other communication skills

6. Inspire a high level of involvement by peers during the discussion period, including level of interest shown by peers, ability by presenter to respond to questions asked, or to generate new ideas or discussion in the audience

All three awards weigh equally-they are of the same importance or value.

List of winners

A. SPSE Graduate Student Award (established 1985):

Year: 2005

Names of Awardees: Anindya Sen and Omer Avci, co-winners, Northern Illinois University

Title of Presentation: "Academic Debate as Informal Logic Democratic Education"

Conference Location: National Louis University

Year: 2005

Name of Awardee: Ms. Sara Shrader, University of Illinois-Chicago

Title of Presentation: "Moral Dialogue in the Classroom as an Act of Democratic Virtue"

Conference Location: National Louis University

Year: 2005

Name of Awardee: Kanako Ide, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Title of Presentation: "A case of Qualitative Educational Research: Walter Feinberg, Japan and American Identity"

Conference Location: National Louis University

Year: 2003

Name of Awardee: Michael S. Merry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title of Presentation: "Embedded Identities and Religious Schooling: Implications from the Multicultural Theory of Bhiku Parekh"

Conference Location: Chicago State University

Year: 2002

Name of Awardee: Ms. Jessica Ching-Sze Wang, Indiana University

Title of Presentation: "Does Growth Need A Direction? Making Sense of John Dewey's Notion of Growth"

Conference Location: Chicago State University

Year: 2000

Name of Awardee: Stephen Barnes, Southern Illinois U.: Carbondale

Title of Presentation: "Dewey: The Aesthetics of Pedagogy"

Conference Location: Loyola University-Chicago

Year: 1993

Name of Awardee: Jeane Connell

Title of Presentation:

Conference Location: Loyola University-Chicago

Year: 1992

Name of Awardee: Susan V. Aud, Southern Illinois U.: Carbondale

Title of Presentation: "Teaching in a Post-Modern World"

Conference Location: Loyola University-Chicago

Year: 1991

Name of Awardee: Robert Leone, Temple University

Title of Presentation: "American Education in Fluxion and the Possibility of a Teaching Profession"

Conference Location: Loyola University-Chicago

Year: 1989

Name of Awardee: David Schultz, U. Illinois-Chicago

Title of Presentation: "Zen Buddhism: A Religious Paradigm of Pedagogy"

Conference Location: Loyola University-Chicago

Year: 1988

Name of Awardee: Dale T. Snauwaert, University of Illinois-Urbana

Title of Presentation: "Sorokin's Theory of Sociocultural Change, Creative Altruism and Education"

Conference Location: Loyola University-Chicago

Year: 1986

Name of Awardee: Vincent Macri, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Title of Presentation: "The Habit of Inquiry"

Conference Location: University of Chicago

Year: 1985

Name of Awardee: Amy McAninch, U. Illinois - Champaign

Title of Presentation: "The Recitation: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow"

Conference Location:

FIRST GRADUATE STUDENT TO RECEIVE SPSE [MPES] GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD (see Archives- "Other")

Dr. Michael Oliker Doctoral Student Award (established 2003):

Year: 2005

Name of Awardee: Thibert, Jeffrey R., University of Illinois- Champaign

Title of Presentation: "Never the Twain Shall Meet: Assumptive Incommensurability in the Debate Over Teaching Evolutionary Theory in American Public Schools"

Conference Location: National Louis University

Year: 2003

Name of Awardee: Bryan R. Warnick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title of Presentation: :"Creon's Tragic Decree and the Ethics of Educational Policy"

Conference Location: Chicago State University

No students have won the Father Walter Krolikowski award because it was just established this year (2007).