Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society

1. Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of theSoutheast Philosophy of Education Society Hosted by: The University of Alabama Gorgas House, 1829, original dining hall, post office, and infirmary of The University of Alabama

2. SEPES Officers: President: Benjamin Baez, Georgia State University President Elect: Deanna Michael, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Immediate Past President: Richard Lakes, Georgia State University Secretary/Treasurer: John Petrovic, The University of Alabama 2004 Program Chair: John Petrovic

3. Friday, February 20th At a glance • Registration and Welcome, 8:15 • Concurrent Sessions I-II, 9:00-12:15 • Lunch Break, 12:15-1:30 • Concurrent Sessions III-IV, 1:30-4:30 • Presidential Address, 5:00-6:00 • Banquet, 7:00

4. Registration and Welcome Coffee, juice, pastry, and fruit will be available outside the Mason and Mobile rooms from 8:00 a.m. Registration will be open from 8:15-10:30 Dr. Ross Palmer will officially open the 55th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society 8:45-9:00, Birmingham room Ross Palmer, Interim Dean, College of Education, The The University of Alabama

5. Mason Room Adjudicating Values: Human Rights and Equity in Education Neutrality in Education as a Human Right Donald Vandenberg University of Queensland, Emeritus Cultivating an Epistemic Ethos: On the Necessity of Adjudication in Religious Education Suzanne Rosenblith Clemson University Paths Toward Equity in Education: Why Marxist Educational Theory is Not One Aaron Cooley University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill Values and the Drive-Thru: Chik-Fil-A and Character Education in Georgia Deron Boyles Georgia State University Mobile Room From Acronyms to Acrimony: NCLB & NCATE “To despair or not to despair?” For teachers in the present age that is not a choice Douglas McKnight The University of Alabama Did We Listen to the Children: Teacher Quality, Teacher Candidate Dispositions and UNESCO’s What Makes a Good Teacher? Kathryn Richardson Jones The Citadel In Pursuit of Excellence: An Ethical Assessment of Standardized Testing Charles Rudder The University of Alabama, Gadsden Citizens and the Education President: Reflections on Habermas, Freire, and the Status Quo Philip Kovacs & Carolyn J. VanderSchee Georgia State University Concurrent Session I, 9:00-10:30

6. Mason Room Constructing Knowledges: Teacher Research, Aesthetics, and Discourse A Wittgenstein Philosophy on History and Culture: A Discourse on Broken Knowledge Stephen S. Triche Nicholls State University Applying James Banks Insider/ Outsider Research Distinctions to Teacher Knowledge Research: Issues of Epistemology and Subjectivity Roland Mitchell The University of Alabama Visualizing Experience: Deweyan Aesthetics & Photography in Social Science Research Gerald Wood The University of Alabama The Need for Semiotics of Teacher Knowledge Research: What Peirce has to Say to Teacher Education Scholars Jerry Rosiek and Becky M. Atkinson The University of Alabama Mobile Room Critical Pedagogies, Empowering Possibilities Critically Transitive Pedagogy: An Anti-hegemonic Pedagogical Framework Nicholas J. Shudak University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Raising Youth Voice: Experiences in a Youth Development Organization Leslee Trammell Georgia State University Digital Democracy and Schooling in the USA: Critical Analysis through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy Anne Kanga The University of Alabama Paolo Freire and Operation Iraqi Freedom: Liberation or Oppression? Philip Kovacs Georgia State University Concurrent Session II, 10:45-12:15

7. Mason Room Stepping Outside the Lines: Performance and Representation From Babe Didrikson to Gabrielle Reece: The Power of Heteronormativity and the “Babe” Factor in High School Sports Natalie Adams, Amy Franklin, and Alison Schmitke The University of Alabama Unstraight Lines Susan Talburt Georgia State University Post-positivist Realist Theory: Identity and Representation Lorraine Gilpin Georgia Southern University Mobile Room Ethical Leadership: Conversations about Moral Discipline and the Common Good Southern Youth and the Problem of Moral Discipline at the The University of Alabama, 1831-1837 Stephen Tomlinson and Kevin Windham The University of Alabama Competing Paradigms Influencing the Administrator’s Role in Promoting “the Common Good” Michael C. Natarella The University of Alabama Education and Hope: Reframing the Conversation of School Leadership Roma B. Angel Appalachian State University Concurrent Session III, 1:30-2:45

8. Mason Room Locating Education: History, Philosophy, and Pedagogy The Inspired Classroom Thomas A. Peterson State University of West Georgia Re)Locating the Disabled Subject in Pedagogy Anne Kanga The University of Alabama The Theory-Practice Dichotomy at Central European Schools Joseph S. Freedman Alabama State University A Philosophical Investigation of Pedagogies of Liberatory Educational Practices Delores D. Liston and Leo Woodham Digiovanni Georgia Southern University Mobile Room Envisioning Democratic Education: Justice, Power, and Shared Authority The Permanence of Injustice and Inequalities in Education: Rawls’ Theory of Justice and the Digital Divide Elizabeth Hendrix The University of Alabama Power Shifts: From Liberal Democracy to Capitalist Oligarchy Michael Johnson University of Central Florida Shared Authority in Democracies-Always-in-the Making: Teaching Moral Lessons in an African-American School Barbara Thayer-Bacon University of Tennessee Contesting Consensus: Redefining Equal Educational Opportunity Gerald Wood The University of Alabama Concurrent Session IV, 3:00-4:30

9. 5:00-6:00 Birmingham Room Presidential Address Searching for the “Public” in Public Education Benjamin Baez Georgia State University 7:00 Dinner Banquet Café Venice 2321 University Blvd. Tuscaloosa, AL 205 366 1209 Evening Activities

10. Saturday, February 21st At a glance… Concurrent Sessions V, 8:45-10:15 Keynote Address, 10:30-11:45 Lunch Break, 11:45-1:00 Concurrent Sessions VI-VII, 1:00-4:00 Business Meeting, 4:15-5:00

11. Mason Room Educational Professionals: Implications of Theory Liberal, Contemporary Conservative, Radical, and Postmodern Thought: Implications for Teacher Education Zeynel Amac Indiana University -- Bloomington Peircean Semiotics and Reader Response Theory: A Theory of Teacher Knowledge Criticism Becky M. Atkinson The University of Alabama/ Samford University Challenging Normalcy: Using Theory to Interrogate Occupational Therapy Education Jennifer Sanders The University of Alabama Mobile Room Still Relevant Historical Figures: Dewey, Thorndike, and (Non)Democratic Education Where is Democracy in Education? Gail L. Kidd Indiana University -- Bloomington Thomas Dalton’s Becoming John Dewey: A Sound Means for Engaging Students in the Philosophical Assumptions Underlying Education Randy Hewitt University of Central Florida The Face of Progressive Education: John Dewey, William H. Kirkpatrick…Mike White, Richard Linklater, and Jack Black? Eric C. Sheffield Southwest Missouri State University Teaching without Thinking: A Comparison of Thorndike’s Hierarchical Model with Bergson’s Closed Society Pamela Crosby Florida State University Concurrent Session V, 8:45-10:15

12. Keynote Address, 10:30-11:45 Birmingham Room Dr. Kenneth R. Howe, Professor, College of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder TITLE

13. Mason Room Symposium Thinking Constructively: The Quilting of Diverse Students’ Stories Celebrating Chaos Yan Cao University of Tennessee Tool of Imagination: Traveling in Other’s Country Scott Ellison University of Tennessee Communication and Relational Skills So Young Kang University of Tennessee This is My Page”: Using Imagination and Intertext in the Classroom Jennifer Spirko University of Tennessee Chair/ Discussant Barbara Thayer-Bacon University of Tennessee Mobile Room Language Fallacies: Citizenship, Rhetoric, and Funds of Knowledge Giving Our Kids World Citizenship: Three Levels at Which We Need Heritage Languages Xiang Zhang The University of Alabama An Enlightening Contradiction in the Rhetoric of Community Development Larry Johnson University of South Florida -- St. Petersburg The Practical Turn Stanley Nevins St. Joseph’s College Funds of Knowledge and Extreme Investments in Education among the Hidalguense Mexican Community in Clearwater, Florida Oliver Bernsdorff University of South Florida – St. Petersburg Concurrent Session VI, 1:00-2:30

14. Mason Room Learning and (Un)learning Masculinity: Rac(ing) through History Learning to Become Self-Made Men: Nineteenth Century Technical Education in Cincinnati Richard Lakes Georgia State University “The XY Pair” Van Disel and Bruce Willis: Theorizing Masculinity and Educational Practice James S. Kaminsky and Sean Forbes Auburn University From Black Beauty to Beauty and the Beast: (Re)Contextualizing the Images of Black Masculinity C. P. Gause University of North Carolina -- Greensboro Mobile Room Exploring the Politics of Race: Desegregation, Resegregation, and Affirmative Action John Rawls: A Just Society through Affirmative Action James Van Patten University of Arkansas -- Fayetteville, Emeritus The Contradictions of Desegregation in Georgia: The Carter Administration’s Dilemmas with Desegregation Deanna Michael University of South Florida – St. Petersburg Neighborhood Schools: A Critique Using Dewey’s Conception of Democratic Education Kathleen M. Kinslow The University of Alabama Concurrent Session VII, 2:45-4:00

15. Continuing Business Call to order (Baez) Approval of the Minutes (Baez) Financial Report (Petrovic) Pursuing Affiliation with PES (Baez) Installation of 2004-05 Officers (additional items TBD) New Business Future Meeting Sites (additional items TBD) Business Meeting, 4:15-5:00AGENDA

16. Special thanks to… Dr. Ross Palmer, Interim Dean, College of Education, The University of Alabama Dr. Harold Bishop, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies Gerald Wood, Doctoral Student, Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies