A CSFE Special Interest Group meeting is scheduled for 8 AM, November 8, 2018 in the Crepe Myrtle Room (Hyatt Regency Greenville, SC). If you are a member of one of the many different CSFE member organizations, including AESA, and have an interest in the future work of the Council for Social Foundations of Education, you are warmly invited to attend! If you would like to become involved in the CSFE but are not able to attend the meeting this year, contact Jan Armstrong, University of New Mexico.
Tag Archives: social foundations of education
John Dewey Society — Call for Proposals
2019 Theme
Dewey in/and China:
Cultural Transformation & Progressive Education in International Settings Today
John Dewey Society Panel on Dewey and Philosophy
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
2019 marks the centennial of the start of John Dewey’s stay of two years and two months in China. He arrived in China at a time of cultural transformation and upheaval. There was the spread of a new vernacular called Paihua that signaled a ferment of thought. The New Culture movement and the May Fourth (1919) student uprising focused on Western science amidst a new found nationalism and populism.
Today, Dewey’s influence in China is broad and deep, though it underwent a number of shifts since that time. His early influence peaked in the decade following his visit, and he was later savagely criticized by the Communist regime shortly after his death in 1952. For many scholars, this criticism indicated the depth that Dewey’s influence still had on Chinese culture. At present there is a resurgence of Dewey in China, evidenced in part by the recent translation of the collected works of Dewey into Chinese, published in 2015, and the work of the Dewey Center at Fudan University (see the research note in the spring 2018 issue of Dewey Studies).
One of the main reasons that Dewey had such a profound influence on China was due to his pragmatism and its relation to Confucianism, which emphasizes thought for its usefulness in social situations and for living a good and proper life. Dewey’s philosophy fit with traditional Chinese culture, even though Confucianism was under attack as an old tradition during the New Culture movement at that time in China.
However, the 20th century was a time when Chinese culture changed dramatically with the influence of Marxism and Communism. Dewey had warned against a wholesale acceptance of Marxism and Communism, and later was condemned for this way of thinking. Dewey did not call for the general rejection of Chinese culture or complete adaptation of Western culture, but for a new culture that would come about through a careful evaluation and reflection upon both cultures. He asks in his critical review of Bertrand Russell’s The Problem of China: “…what is to win in the present turmoil of change: the harsh and destructive impact of the West, or the internal recreation of Chinese culture inspired by intercourse with the West” (MW 15:218).
We call for papers that not only may take up an explicit study of Dewey in/and China, but that also deal with the themes of cultural transformation and progressive education more broadly in other worldwide contexts and in other countries, including North America. In considering Dewey together with Chinese and other cultures, we can ask a number of questions that are specific to Dewey in/and China but can be extended to other contexts elsewhere, such as:
- How has Chinese or other cultures been changed or transformed by Deweyan influence?
- Was Dewey’s philosophy affected by his stay in China?
- What are current manifestations of Deweyan philosophy in China, and other countries? How is it demonstrated in pedagogy, curriculum, and school planning and leadership?
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submit all proposals (prepared per instructions below) for individual papers via email with an attachment as a Word document. All proposals are due by midnight Eastern time November 30, 2018, via email to Sarah Stitzlein, John Dewey Society President-Elect, Professor, University of Cincinnati, Sarah.Stitzlein@uc.edu; Any questions – contact Sarah Stitzlein directly via email.
Proposals accepted for presentation in this panel of the John Dewey Society will be notified by January 15, 2019. Full papers of up to 5000 words (excluding references) will be due no later than March 15, 2019 for the discussant to prepare remarks.
PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
Part 1 (submit in the body of your email message with the subject line JDS Proposal)
(1.) Title of your paper and theme your proposal addresses
(2.) Your name, title, institutional affiliation (if any)
(3.) Your address, phone, email
(4.) An abstract of up to 100 words
Part 2 (in an attached Word document with all identifying information removed for anonymous review)
(1.) Title of your paper
(2.) A descriptive summary of your paper (maximum length 1000 words), explaining your paper and its significance, especially in relation to the selected theme. List several references to place your contribution in the broader scholarly conversation.
About The John Dewey Society (http://www.johndeweysociety.org)
Founded in 1935, the purpose of the Society is to foster intelligent inquiry into problems pertaining to the place and function of education in social change, and to share, discuss, and disseminate the results of such inquiry.
John Dewey Society @ AERA
JDS CONFERENCE @ AERA | APRIL 13-14, 2018
DRAFT PROGRAM SCHEDULE
APRIL 13th
Pre-Conference Workshop (Democracy in Education Initiative)
JDS Symposium | Nationalism: War and Peace | 12:00pm – 1:45pm
- Leonard Waks (Temple University)
- Jacoby Carter (John Jay College)
- Sasha Polakow Suransky (New York Times)
- Meira Levinson (Harvard University)
School and Society Forum | Maxine Greene Institute | 2pm – 3:45pm
Dewey Lecture | Scott Shapiro (Yale Law School) | 4pm – 5:30pm
Reception | to follow
APRIL 14th
Executive Board and Directors Meeting | 9am-10am
Dewey and Philosophy Panel I | 10am -11:45pm
Dewey and Philosophy Panel II | 1:00pm – 2:45pm
Business Meeting | 3:00pm – 4:00pm
AESA 2017 Critics’ Choice Book Awards
An announcement from Eleanor Blair, Western Carolina UniversityCritics’ Choice Book Awards, Chair: Congratulations to the winners!
AESA 2017 Critics’ Choice Book Award Winners
Au, W., Brown, A., & Calderon, D. (2016). Reclaiming the Multicultural
Roots of U.S. Curriculum: Communities of Color and Official Knowledge
in Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Camicia, S. P. (2016). Critical Democratic Education and
LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum: Opportunities and Constraints. New York:
Routledge.
Carter, J. & Lochte, H. (Eds.) (2017). Teacher Performance Assessment
and Accountability Reforms: The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and
Schools. New York: Palgrave McMillan.
Cervantes-Soon, C.G. (2016). Juarez Girls Rising: Transformative
Education in Times of Dystopia. Minneapolis, MN: University of
Minnesota Press.
Childers, S.M. (2017). Urban Educational Identity: Seeing Students on
Their Own Terms. New York: Routledge.
Douglas, T. M. O. (2016). Border Crossing Brothas: Black Males
Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space. New York: Peter Lang
Publishers.
Gottesman, Isaac. (2016). The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist
Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race.
New York: Routledge.
Meiners, E. R. (2016). For the Children: Protecting Innocence in a
Carceral State. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Noddings, N. and Brooks, L. (2017). Teaching Controversial Issues: The
Case for Critical Thinking and Moral Commitment in the Classroom. New
York: Teachers College Press.
Sanders, C.R. (2016). A Chance for Change: Head Start and
Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle. Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press.
Tavares, H.M. (2016). Pedagogies of the Image: Photo-archives,
Cultural Histories, and Postfoundational Inquiry. Springer Nature
Publishing.
Wolfmeyer, M. (2017). Mathematics Education: A Critical
Introduction. New York: Taylor & Francis.
CSFE and CASA 2015 Annual Business Meetings
The Council for Foundations of Education (CSFE) will hold its annual business meeting in conjunction with the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Annual Meeting at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio, Texas. Here are the details:
CSFE Business meeting, Thursday, November 12, 1:45 – 3:15 PM in the Goliad Boardroom. Leaders of member organizations and appointed delegates are welcome, as are interested others. For information about CSFE, contact Jan Armstrong, Jessica Heybach or Kathleen deMarrais.
AESA Committee on Academic Standards and Accreditation (CASA) Business meeting, Friday, November 13, 8:00 – 10:00 AM in the Goliad Boardroom. For information about CASA, contact Amy Swain.
Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Annual Conference Call
Annual Conference 2013 of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (OVPES)
Call for Proposals
The Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (OVPES) invites proposals for the 2013 annual meeting to be held at the Bergamo Conference Center in Dayton, Ohio, Thursday through Saturday, September 19-21, 2013 — OVPES website: www.ovpes.org
Conference Theme: The Significance of Subjectivity and Identity in Community: Framing the Political Dilemmas of Schools and Education Today for the Creation of a Public Space
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: May 3, 2013
Submit to: Dr. Kevin Gary, Program Chair at kgary@goshen.edu.
See additional details about the conference and submission requirements at www.ovpes.org or download here: OVPES_Call_2013
John Dewey Society Program at AERA
The John Dewey Society Founded 1935 |
April 2, 2013
Dear Dr. Armstrong and CSFE Colleagues, The John Dewey Society is pleased to announce its annual program held jointly with AERA. Please find a schedule of events, including the School & Society Forum (featuring Superintendent Richard Carranza), David Labaree’s John Dewey Lecture, the Outstanding Achievement Award recipient, Jane Roland Martin, the Dewey Symposium (featuring Susan Laird, Nick Burbules, Isabel Nuñez, and Eric Bredo), the Past President’s Paper Session, and, of course, the annual JDS Reception here: http://greenwalt.wiki.educ.msu.edu/2013+John+Dewey+Society+Annual+Meeting. With a new membership fee structure, we’re also hopeful you will join the Society, if you aren’t already a member. We have a growing number of initiatives to expand our reach and influence and this is truly an exciting time to be a John Dewey Society member. Schedules at AERA are often hectic, of course, but please join us for as many of these sessions as you can. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco. Sincerely,
|