Friday Morning
8:30 Greeting
9:00-10:15
Ethics, Moral Education, and Policy
Chair:
George Sherman, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Character Education: Some questions
Donald Vandenburg, ADHA and Moral Education: Some Questions.
Brianna Reck, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Ethical Implications of "Zero Tolerance" Implementation
Accountability for Property and Teaching
Chair:
Benjamin Baez, Georgia State University, "Authors and Inventors": Intellectual Property, Institutionalization, and Privatization in Higher Education
Larry Johnson, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Jeb Bush, Resolved: "The State University System does not have any real accountability."
Fred Kierstead, University of South Florida and Jim van Patten, Florida Atlantic University, Education Agenda Setting: The Media and Blue Ribbon Commissions
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45
Chair:
Knowledge and Its use in Education
Greg Seals and Deron Boyles, CUNY-Staten Island and Georgia State University, Deweyan Epistemology is not Oxymoronic: The Role of Warranted Assertibility
Larry Stultz, Georgia State University, Egocentricism in Professional Arts Education: Toward a Discipline-based View of Work and World
Philip Kovacs, Georgia State University, An Argument for Emerson’s Placement Beside the Great Minds of Education
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Education: From Leaders to Students
Chair:
Stephen Tomlinson, University of Alabama, Educating the Classe Savante: Thomas Jefferson and Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy
Deidre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida, African American Student Activism at Florida A & M University during the 1960s and 1970s.
11:45-1:15 Lunch
Friday Afternoon
1:15-2:30
Teachers and Administrators: Questions about Professional Responsibility
Chair:
Roma B. Angel. Appalachian State University, A Mythic Canon for a School Leadership: Responding to Political and Spiritual Alienation
Ann McKeighan Lee, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, George Bernard Shaw Revisted: The Deprofessionalization of Teachers Anew
Beth Weiss, Georgia State University, Teachers, Unions and Commercialization
The Illusion of Educational Reforms: Questions of Curriculum
Chair:
Eric Sheffield, University of Florida, Service Learning’s Place in Democratic Education
Oliver Bernsdorff, University of South Florida, The GED and the illusion of "Real School"
Paul R. Geisler, Georgia Southern University, Science, Consciousness, Ethics, and Power: Vanilla Sky an Minority Report as Poststructural Scientific Curriculum
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:00
Business’s Influence on Education
Chair:
Leslee Trammel, Georgia State University, Measuring and Fixing, Filling and Drilling: The ExxonMobil Agenda for Education
Deron Boyles and Benjamin Baez, Problematizing the Public: Privatization, Democracy, and the Future of Education
Carolyn Vanderschee. Georgia State University, The Privatization of Food Services in Schools: Undermining Children’s Health, Social Equity, and Democratic Education
Education as a Means of Maintaining the Status Quo
Chair
Gerald Woods and Stephen Tomlison, University of Alabama, Bilingual Education and Social Power in Paraguay
Deidre Cobb-Roberts and Barbara Shircliffe, Desegregation as a Means for Social Control: Florida’s Desegregation History.
5:00-6:00
Wine and Cheese Reception, Davis Hall 130
Presidential Address: Rick Lakes, Georgia State University, Boys at Risk?
7:00 Banquet: The Garden Restaurant
Saturday
9:00-10:15
Curriculum as a Means of Interpreting Reality
Chair: Ben Baez
Delores D. Liston and Melissa L. Lickteig, Georgia Southern University, Joy and Connected Pedagogy: An Explanation of Spiritual Possibilities in Curriculum Discourse
Kathryn Richardson Jones, Integration of theory and Practice: Suggestions for Curriculum of Sustainability
Julie Maudlin, Georgia Southern University, Marketing Minds and the Next Moment: Understanding Curriculum as Commercial Test
Social Justice and Politics
Chair: Wayne Urban
Randy Hewitt, University of Central Florida, "Democratic Ends Demand Democratic Methods": Education of Social Justice
Sherman Dorn, University of South Florida, Schooling, Open Sponsorship, and Strategic Choices
10:30-11:45
Florida Educational Reform
Chair: Kathy Borman
Barbara Shircliffe, University of South Florida, Was School Choice a Choice?
Stu Hilder, University of South Florida, School Choice in Pinellas County
Ann Kloft, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Florida’s A+ Plan and De-Democratizing public Schools
Gender in Social and Philosophical Myth
Chair: Larry Johnson
Alexandra Langdon, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Gender Equity in Education, the Contrast and Comparison of the United States and Russia
John Petrovich, University of Alabama, Plato Did Butler, Paradoxically Speaking (Or Is the World Our Cave?)
Danielle Hogan and Raylee Milner, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Gender and the Mythology of Family
11:45 Business Meeting