PHILOSOPHY OF

EDUCATION

SOCIETY

Annual Conference:

November 14-15,

1997

Loyola University Chicago

Water Tower Campus

Rubloff Auditorium

25 East Pearson Street

Chicago, IL 60611

Host: School of Education:

Peggy Fong, Dean.

Rubloff Auditorium

1 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.: Rubloff Auditorium:

FIRST GENERAL SESSION

Welcoming Remarks: Peggy Fong, Dean, School of

Education, Loyola University Chicago.

“The Teacher Educator as Professional and NCATE as Interloper: The Grounds for Rejecting Both.”

Gary D. Fenstermacher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Commentator: Ronald M. Swartz, Oakland

University

Chair: Michael A. Oliker, Northeastern Illinois

University

2 to 3:15 p.m.: FIRST CONCURRENT SESSIONS

(1) Rubloff Auditorium: Popular Culture and Education

“Nothing Better Than Super-True: Education, Popular Culture, and the Supermarket Tabloid.” Alexander Makedon, Chicago State University.

“Toward an Intellectual Understanding of Anti-Intellectual Popular Culture: Abbott & Costello’s Here Come the Co-Eds (1945).”

Michael A. Oliker, Northeastern

Illinois University.

Chair: Don G. Smith, Eastern Illinois University

(2) 312 Marquette Center: John Dewey and Moral

Education.

“Postmodernism, Continuity, and a Pragmatic Morality.”

Justin Dennis, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

“Character Education in John Dewey.”

Holly Salls, The Willows Academy (Des Plaines, Illinois).

Chair: Craig A. Cunningham, Northeastern Illinois University

3:30 to 4:45 p.m.: SECOND CONCURRENT SESSIONS

(3) Rubloff Auditorium: Education and Political Philosophy.

“H. G. Wells and the Origins of Progressive Educational Theory.”

Don G. Smith, Eastern Illinois University.

“The Constitutional Ideal of the Educated Person.”

William Russell, Merrimack

College (Massachusetts)

Chair: Steven Tozer, University of Illinois at Chicago

(4) 312 Marquette Center: Aesthetic Education

“John Dewey’s Experience and Education and Museum Education.”

Ted Ansbacher, Science Services (White Plains, NY)

“The Aesthetic Core of Classroom Mnemonics.”

Bill Engel, Harvard University

Chair: Douglas R. DiBianco, Eastern Illinois University

5 to 6 p.m.: Rubloff Auditorium:

BUSINESS MEETING

Presiding: Jerome A. Popp, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

(5) Rubloff Auditorium: Theories of Pedagogy and American Culture

“Nonviolence in Education.”

Ian Harris, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

“Drugs, Culture, Curriculum, and Pedagogy.”

Louis Silverstein, Columbia College (Chicago)

Chair: Ronald R. Morgan, Loyola University Chicago

(6) Reception Room (25 E. Pearson Building):

Multiculturalism or Cultural Pluralism in Education?

“Multiculturalism and the Teaching of Literature.”

Allan Johnston, DePaul University & Oakton C. C.

“The Philosophical Basis of Africalogical Studies.”

Clyde A. Winters, Loyola University Chicago & Uthman

dan Fodio

Chair: Ann Whitaker, Northeastern Illinois University

9:15 to 10:25 a.m.: FOURTH CONCURRENT SESSIONS

(7) Rubloff Auditorium: The Educational Philosophy of W. E. B. DuBois.

“W. E. B. DuBois and Educational Philosophy.”

Bartley L. McSwine, Chicago State University

“W. E. B. DuBois’s Relevance for Issues in Education Today.”

Percy L. Moore, Wayne State

University

Chair: Meyer Weinberg, University of Massachusetts (Emeritus) & Northeastern Illinois University

(8) Reception Room (25 E. Pearson Building): Philosophy and Educational Psychology.

“Waiting: Killing Time? Playtime?”

Walter P. Krolikowski, SJ, Loyola University Chicago.

“The Tale of the Exhausted Ego: The Journey Toward Being a Teacher.”

Robert P. Craig, University of Houston

Chair: John M. Wozniak, Loyola University

Chicago (Emeritus)

10:30 to 11:40 a.m: FIFTH CONCURRENT SESSIONS

(9) Rubloff Auditorium: Rousseau

“Rousseau and the Religious Basis of Political Order.”

Jon M. Fennell, Naperville, Illinois

“The Discourse of Natural Instruction in Rousseau’s Emile.”

Guillemette Johnston, DePaul University

Chair: Walter P. Krolikowski, SJ, Loyola University Chicago.

(10) Reception Room (25 E. Pearson Building):

Reconstruction in Education

“Hermeneutic Disclosure as Freedom:

John Dewey and Paulo Freire on the Non-

Representational Nature of Education.”

Anthony Petruzzi, University of Nebraska at Kearney.

“Social Reconstructionism and the Ideology of Nannie Helen Burroughs.”

Charlesetta M. Ellis, Chicago State University

Chair: David J. Blacker, Illinois State University

11:45 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.: Rubloff Auditorium: SECOND GENERAL SESSION

“Dewey and the Issue of School Governance.”

Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Commentator: Philip L. Smith, Ohio State University.

Chair: Gerald L. Gutek, Loyola University Chicago

ADJOURNMENT

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Vice President: Gerald L. Gutek

Loyola University Chicago

Secretary/Treasurer: Don G. Smith

Eastern Illinois University

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

Robert P. Craig

University of Houston

Charlesetta M. Ellis

Chicago State University

Louis Silverstein

Columbia College Chicago

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Michael A. Oliker, Chair

Northeastern Illinois University

David J. Blacker

Illinois State University

Walter P. Krolikowski, S.J.

Loyola University Chicago

ARRANGEMENTS:

Walter P. Krolikowski, S.J.

Loyola University Chicago

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:

Michael A. Oliker

5006 W. Grace St.

Chicago, IL 60641

Phone: (773) 202-9280

E-mail: moliker@sprynet.com

MANAGING EDITOR: PROCEEDINGS

Kate Campion

Chicago, Illinois

Midwest FES

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