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CALL FOR PAPERS
The New
England Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES) will hold its 2008 Annual
Meeting at Boston College in Massachusetts on Saturday, October 4. The keynote
speaker for the conference is Dr. Wendy Kohli.
Dr. Kohli currently holds the rank of Professor
in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Graduate School of
Education and Allied Professions (GSEAP) at Fairfield University, where she
teaches the required philosophical and social foundations courses. Prior to
coming to Fairfield in 2002, Kohli directed the Master’s in Teaching Program at
The New School in NYC, taught in the Curriculum Theory doctoral program at LSU
in Baton Rouge, and was first tenured and promoted at SUNY Binghamton. She
earned her Ph.D. at Syracuse University in the Cultural Foundations of
Education, with a dissertation on Toward Critical Hermeneutic Competence:
Empowerment for Teachers.
Dr.
Kohli’s scholarship has continued to focus on critical theory, feminism, and
critical pedagogy. She has published widely in a range of journals and books,
including a volume she edited for Routledge, Critical Conversations in the
Philosophy of Education. She is currently finishing a book for Rowman and
Littlefield, Feminisms and Educational Research, for their series on
Philosophy, Theory and Educational Research. Active in several professional
associations, Kohli is a past president of the American Educational Studies
Association, currently serves on the Board of Directors of the John Dewey
Society, and on the editorial boards of Educational Theory, Educational
Studies, Studies in Philosophy and Education, and the National Women’s Studies
Journal.
Following
the precedent of previous years, Concurrent Paper Sessions will be a feature of
the program. The Program Committee invites proposals on all topics relevant to
philosophy of education interpreted broadly to include the recognized
foundational disciplines of philosophy, history, social foundations and
comparative and international education. Proposal format may include individual
papers, panels and symposia. All proposals should be sent in electronic form as
email attachments, preferably in the form of MS Word documents and adhere to the
guidelines that follow. Please send proposals as early as possible, but no later
than May 16, 2008, to the program chair, Ana Martinez Aleman at
alemanan@bc.edu.
Guidelines for Proposals
Each
proposal should be submitted as a single Word document, which should include the
following separated from each other by a page break:
- A one-page cover sheet
that lists the title of the paper. It should include the name, affiliation
and information of the proposal organizer and for each of the participants.
Include email address, mailing address, telephone number and fax number.
- An abstract of the
proposed paper should be included. It should outline the paper’s focus and
rationale. Limit the abstract to 75 words.
- A two page proposal
(single spaced) which describes the topic, theoretical sources, data
sources, findings and significance of the paper.
Conference participants are
required to pay the $30 registration fee for the conference which includes
lunch. Audio visual equipment must be provided by the presenter. Please email
Ana Martinez Aleman at
alemanan@bc.edu with questions.
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