[Notice from MPES President Richard Pipan:

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2005

Registration starts at 8:15AM Continental Breakfast Available

$65 regular membership, includes Conference Fee

$30 one day registration

$10 student fee

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00AM

Dr. Richard C. Pipan

Oakland University

MPES President

Greetings from National Louis University

Dr. Patrick Roberts

First Concurrent Sessions 9:30-10:50

Room 5005

Deering, Thomas

Augusta State University

Jones, Steven

Southwest Missouri State University

What's Wrong With Teacher Education Programs

Chris Keegan, Ph.D.

Loving Fido: How teaching Environmental Ethics Can Make for Better Citizens and Better Human Beings

Room 5033

Cabraal, Chandra Liyana

Chicago State University

Lived Experience, Construction of Knowledge and the Orientational Dynamics of School

Konkol, Pamela

University Illinois- Chicago

In Search of a Professional Ethos: A Critical Examination of the Potential and Possibilities of a Epideictic Construct for Teachers

Second Concurrent Sessions 11:00-12:30

Room 5005

Flumerfelt, Shannon

Oakland University

Ferguson, Michael

Principal, Brandon High School

Trust and Public High Schools

Schultz, Brian

Northeastern Illinois University

Pamela J. Konkol

University of Illinois at Chicago

Linking History and Philosophy to the Contemporary Issues: Making Social Foundations Relevant to Pre-Service and Practicing Educators

Room 5033

Albear, Gustavo

Eastern Illinois University

Existentialism and Discourse Ethics: A Conceptual Review with Special Reference to Education

Johnston, Allan

DePaul University-Chicago

Education and Conquest: Rereading Mary Louise Pratt's ‘Arts of the Contact Zone'

Third Concurrent Sessions 1:45-2:55

Room 5005

Gong, Z Rose

Eastern Illinois University

Collectivism, Competition in the Changing Chinese Culture and Education

Shrader, Sara

Graduate Student

University of Illinois-Chicago

Moral Dialogue in the Classroom as an Act of Democratic Virtue

Room 5033

Moore, Percy

Wayne State University

Henry A. Giroux, W.E.B. DuBois and Others: Discourse on Critical Pedagogy

Johnston, Guillemette

DePaul University-Chicago

Diversity and Complexity: Notes on Teaching a Senior Level Course in a Multicultural, Multicultural Field

Fourth Concurrent Sessions 3:00-4:25

Room 5005

Blatz, Charles

University of Toledo

The Role of the Shaman, Initiation, Teaching, and the Interspace of Education

Smith, Phil

Ohio State University

Does Philosophy of Education Need a Narrative? The Role of Fashion and Circumstances in the Understanding We Seek

Room 5033

Makedon, Alexander

Chicago State University

On the Nature of Stupidity

Thibert, Jeffrey R.

Graduate Student

University of Illinois- Champaign

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

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2005

Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30-8:55

Fifth Concurrent Session 9:00-10.25

Room 5005

Ide, Kanako

Graduate student

University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign

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

Yacoub, Joseph R.

DePaul University-Lebanon

Children in Dostoevsky: The Case of the Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov

Room 5033

Winters, Clyde

Governors State University

Teacher Self-Efficacy and Emotional Intelligence

Murphy, Madonna

University of St. Francis

Maria Montessori on the Natural Formation of Character in Young Children

Sixth Concurrent Session 10:30-11:55

Room 5005

Smith, Scott

Kansas State Department of Education

Hilleshiem, Jim

University of Kansas

Educating and Environmental Conscience: A Case for Wendell Berry in the Curriculum

Silverstein, Louis

Columbia College- Chicago

Dying and Death Revisited

Room 5033

Swartz, Ronald

Oakland University

Education for Self- Government: From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond

Gary, Kevin

Loyola University-Chicago

Leisure, Freedom , and Liberal Education

Plenary Session 1:15-2:40 Room 5006

Bill Schubert, Ron Swartz and Richard Pipan, et al, invite all to a panel/town hall discussion on the field of Philosophy of Education, its relation to curriculum and cultural studies, and consideration of where educational thought is emerging/evolving.

Seventh Concurrent Session 3:00-4.25

Room 5005

Roper, James

Michigan State University

Academic Debate as Informal Logic Democratic Education

Sen, Anindya

Northern Illinois University

Avci, Omer

Northern Illinois University

Restructuring Civic Education in America: Rolling Back the Pernicious Influence of the ‘Us Versus Them' Orientation Inherent in the Educational Curricula

Room 5033

Pipan, Richard

Oakland University

Paper or Plastic? Curricular Considerations for Ecological Consciousness and Environmental Activism

Adjournment 4:30