65th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Philosophy
of Education Society
February 1-2, 2013
Draft Program
**Note: Unless otherwise marked, all conference
sessions take place in the Peter Ruddy Wallace
Florida Center for Teachers (PRW on the map)
****Registration will take place Friday and Saturday in PRW****
Friday, February 1st 2013
8:30 AM
Introduction and Welcome
Dean Bill Heller
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
PRW 118
CONCURRENT SESSION I
9:00-10:30AM
Conference Room: 118 North
(Re)Theorizing Contemporary Debates in Education
Rawlisian Contractarianism and Education: How would Rawlsian Contractarianism
inform the current idea of education?
Craig Bouvier, The University of Alabama
Using Bhabha’s Post-Colonial Theory to Create an Alternative Space of Identity
Creation for Adolescent Haitian Youth
Lindsay Vecchio, The University of Florida
Lessons from Heidegger: Being Educated and Thinking about Education
Cristy Smith, Georgia State University
Conference Room: 118 South
Desiring Reform, Data, and Surveillance
The Walking Dead: Education Reformers Examined Through Hegel's Discourse on
Death
David Alexander, Georgia State University
Foucault & Data Driven Decision Making
Jasmine Ulmer, The University of Florida
Community Partnerships that Police: Discussing the Desire of Surveillance
Tasha Parrish, The University of Alabama
A Foucauldian Approach to Analyzing Discourses in Professional Learning
Communities
Cheryl McLaughlin, The University of Florida
CONCURRENT SESSION II
10:45AM-12:15PM
Conference Room: 118 North
Education from Without, Within, And Among: Theoretical Approaches to
Education and Policy
Exploring Pragmatism and Agential Realism Through Transaction and Intra-action
Becky Atkinson, The University of Alabama
Deterretorializing Father, or Reterretorializing Father
Justin Hendricks, The University of Florida
Baudrillard and “Project X”: The End of the Teen Party Movie
Kip Kline, Lewis University
Conference Room: 118 South
Pragmatic Inquiry: On Change and Initiation in Schools
Determining Problem Solutions and Seeking Warranted Assertability in Site-Based
Educational Policy
Andrew McKnight, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Dewey, Philosophy, and Inquiry: Toward Reconstructed Transactionalism as
Neuropragmatism for Schools
Deron Boyles, Georgia State University
“No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of:” Reflections of an
early-career faculty member
Dan Saunders, University of Texas-Arlington
“Education as Initiation” and the Passage to Adulthood
Leonard Waks, Temple University
Conference Room: 110
A School with a View: Critical Theory and Teaching, Learning and Leading in
21st Century Schools
Teacher’s Talking Back: A Reconsideration of Teacher Leadership
Eleanor Blair Hilty, Western Carolina University
Critical Literacy and Hip Hop
Lisa Scott, Tauro College
Critical Pedagogy and the Imagination
Yolanda Medina, City University of New York
CONCURRENT SESSION III
2:00-3:30PM
Conference Room: 118 North
Critical Pedagogy & Dialogue
The Limits of Critical Pedagogy and Imagination: Reviving Günther Anders in an Age
of Visual Culture
Jessica Heybach, The University of Alabama
Constructing a Critical Pedagogy in a Conservative Undergraduate Social Foundations
Classroom
Mary Burke Givens, The University of Alabama
Can Conversation Form the Basis of a Curriculum?
Dwight Jinright, The University of Alabama
Awakening Presence
Thomas Peterson, The University of West Georgia
Conference Room: 118 South
Validity, Truth-Telling, and Interpretation
Understanding Validity as Phronesis in Educational Research
Austin Pickup, The University of Alabama
On Parrhesia and Qualitative Inquiry
Aaron Kuntz, The University of Alabama
Gadamer, Text Interpretation, and Researcher Positionality
Cliff Haynes, The University of Florida
Baudrillard and the end of ‘original’ data
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, The University of Florida
Conference Room: 110
Teacher Reform, Practices, and Profession
Pretending Teaching is a Profession: Why Public School Teaching Will Never Be
Considered a True Profession
Melissa Ann Harness, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Healthy, Happy and Ready to Teach Or, Why Kids Can’t Learn from Fat Teachers Who
Smoke: The Discursive Politics of School Reform and Teacher Health
Carolyn Vander Schee, Northern Illinois University
From the Trenches: A Teach For America Corps Member’s Perspective
T. Jameson Brewer, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dealing with Homosexuality in Schools: The Limits of Liberal Neutrality
John Petrovic, The University of Alabama
CONCURRENT SESSION IV
3:45-5:15PM
Conference Room: 118 North
Explorations of Care and Love in Education
Through the Ethical Looking Glass: Toronto’s Political Ethic of Care and the Virginia
NCLB Waiver
Scott Grubbs, Valdosta State University
Revisiting Love and Education…from a Bad, Hard, Place
Eric Sheffield, Missouri State University
Existential Hermeneutic Beginning Notes on Care in the Curriculum: Or, "Who Cares."
Douglas McKnight, The University of Alabama
Conference Room: 118 South
Historical Perspective on Education
Slavery in Yorkshire: Child Labor and the Development of Factory Schooling
Stephen Tomlinson, The University of Alabama
Nelson Poynter: His Legacy in the American Century
Walter Gordon, The University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Kindergartens, Testing, and the Purpose of schooling: How the Southeastern States
Changed the Purpose of Schooling
Deanna Michael, The University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Affirmative Action Revisited: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
James Van Patten
Conference Room: 110
On Staying the Course: Exploring a Multi-Layered Mentoring System of
Doctoral Students
Panel:
Jennifer Esposito, Georgia State University
Rosalyn Washington, Georgia State University
Thomas Tyner, Georgia State University
Kim Ramsey-White, Georgia State University
Anthony Outler, Georgia State University
Kelly Limes-Taylor, Georgia State University
Taneisha Lee, Georgia State Univeristy
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
5:45-6:30 PM
Lowell C. Davis Hall, Room 130
Dennis Attick, Clayton State University
“Education is Dead”: A Requiem, Of Sorts
Conference banquet will be held at The Hanger restaurant
Dinner begins at 7:00PM.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2013
CONCURRENT SESSION V
9:00-10:30AM
Conference Room: 118 North
Educational Progress? On Learning, Free Markets, and Sex Education
Thinking Human Progress in Education with Spencer
Jason Phillips, The University of Alabama
The Effects of Student-Centered Learning on Problem Solving Abilities: A
Neurobiological Consideration
Patrick Whitehead, The University of West Georgia
The Common Core and Free Market Politics in Public Education
Peggy Ruth Geren, Georgia Regents University
Sex Education in Life Science Classrooms
Puneet Gill, The University of Alabama
Conference Room: 118 South
Gender, Race, and Hybridity in Education
Third Culture Kids & Bourdieu
Jean Swindle, The University of Alabama
Is Bitch Bad?: Reimagining the Gendered and Raced Possibilities of Hip Hop as a
Potential Emancipatory Site
Anthony Outler & Jennifer Esposito, Georgia State University
Constructing Hybrid Theoretical Framework for Analysis of Distancing in School
Paul Landry, The University of Alabama
“To accept whiteness, to truly believe in it, is to deform oneself”: On Sylvia Wynter and
the Construction of Whiteness and Blackness
Kelly Limes-Taylor, Georgia State University
Conference Room: 110
Leaders in Philosophy and History of Education: Adventures in Educational
Autobiography
Panel:
Wayne Urban, The University of Alabama
Leonard Waks, Temple University
Robert Sherman, The University of Florida
CONCURRENT SESSION VI
10:45AM-12:15PM
Conference Room: 118 South
New Possibilities: Reconsidering Educational Achievement and Outcomes
Who is Responsible for Student Outcomes? An Analysis Through Three Philosophical
Perspectives
T. Jameson Brewer, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Redefining Achievement and Rethinking the Achievement Gap-The Failure to Integrate
LaToya Russell, Georgia State University
Quelling the SPARK Within: Reconsidering the Focus of Program Evaluation
Thomas Peterson & Patrick Whitehead, The University of West Georgia
An Argument for Holistic Development of Technical Education
Walter Gordon, The University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Conference Room: 118 North
Coloring Outside the Lines: Bodies, Politics & the Margins
From Subject to Object: Institutional Violence and the Black Girl Body
Elle Shaaban-Magaña, The University of Alabama
Queer Eye for the Black Guy: The Politics of Black Masculinity
Dwight Jinright, The University of Alabama
The Construction of Disability, Blackness, and Whiteness: Living on the Margins of
Dominant Society
Jennifer Barnett, The University of Alabama
Chair: Becky Atkinson, The University of Alabama
Conference Room: 110
On Places and Pipelines: The Impact of Materiality and Reform in Education
Using a Phenomenology of Place in Science Education to Enable Youth in Democratic
Reforms
Rachel Luther, University of Georgia
Power, Violence, and the School to Prison Pipeline: Institutional Imprints on Rival
Gang Members
Corrie Davis, Kennesaw State University
Pipelines, Pipe Dreams, and the Creation of a College-Going Latino Culture
Lou Ginocchio, The University of Alabama
I don’t hang out in math class”: school places and social significance for high school
students
Tedi Gordon, Athens State
SEPES Business Meeting to follow