2008 Oklahoma Education Studies Association Conference
Education for Tolerance
Permission granted by Frances Jordan, Executive Director at The Greenwood Cultural Center
Keynote Speaker, Suzanne Rice, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Teaching and Leadership
University of Kansas School of Education
The University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma Memorial Union
Heritage Room
May 3, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
This conference is dedicated to the memory of Susan Bell Willis.
Hosted by the University of Oklahoma Chapter of AESA
Susan Laird, Ph.D., Faculty Sponsor
The University of Oklahoma College of Education
Dean Joan Smith
Schedule of Events
8:008:40
Heritage
Room
OESA Presidential Address
Michael Surbaugh: The Uncertainties of Hate
8:4510:15
President’s
Room
Maxine Greene’s Teacher as Stranger, Part I
Patricia Simons
Todd Loftin
Chair: Susan Laird
Weitzhoffer
Room
The Effects of High-Stakes Testing on the Educational System
Sandra K. Edge-Boyd
Jolette C. Bush,
Kristen Driskill,
Tammy Johnson
Chair: Nance Cunningham
Frontier
Room
Educating Mothers: Education and the Experience of Motherhood
Maria Laubach
Kara Morgan
Michael Surbaugh
Chair: Robin Stroud
Traditions
Room
Multiculturalism and Democratic Education
Margy McClain: Parental Agency in Educational Decision Making: Mexican-American Examples
Shawn Pendley: Democratic Education at the Limits of Ethical Inquiry
Chair: Joe Meinhart
Alma Wilson
Room
Working with Language Learning Difficulties
Show Meei Ling: A Qualitative Study of ESL Students’ Writing Difficulties
Lufti Hamad: When Motivated American Learners of Arabic Lose Interest: Reasons for Quitting Early
Chair: Virginia Henson
President’s
Room
Maxine Greene’s Teacher as Stranger, Part II
Christiaan Mitchell
Michael Surbaugh
Chair: John Covaleski
Weitzhoffer
Room
Forging Habits: The Educational Problem of Marginalization and Identity Formation
Joy M. Thomas
VaRhea Owens-Hopkins
Chair: Shawn Pendley
Frontier
Room
The Value of Interdisciplinary Geriatric Education for Healthcare Students and Professionals
Sandra K. Edge-Boyd
Jani M. Jones
Chair: Kara Morgan
Traditions
Room
Tolerance is Not Enough
Sara Mata-Dickerson
Anthony Walker
Chair: Patricia Simmons
10:3012:00
10:3012:00
Alma Wilson
Room
The Key of Remembrance: Teaching with Narrative to Advance Empathy
Kristen Holzer: Chekhov’s Narrative and Necessity: Bridging “Us and Them” in the Secondary English
Classroom
Julie Davis: Teaching to Stay Awake
Chair: Todd Loftin
12:1012:40
Heritage
Room
OESA Immediate Past President Address
Robin Stroud: Carceral Christianity: Cultural Transmitter of Essentialist Gender and Sexuality
12:401:30
1:303:00
Beaird
Lounge
President’s
Room
Lunch Break
Heritage
Room
Discussion
Archetypal Symbols in the Painting of Bill Rane and the Writing of Jacques Derrida: Teleological
Implications for Educators
Chair: Doug Davis
Weitzhoffer
Room
Poster Presentations
Alicia Harris: The History of Oklahoma’s Student Aid Program: Who Is Being Served?
Geary D. Crofford: Effectiveness of Summer Professional Development Experience with Authentic
Scientific Research and Inquiry-Based Teaching Components
Frontier
Room
Justice and Education
Don Hufford: A Pedagogical Trinity
John Covaleskie: Paradoxes of Democratic Life: Religion, Democracy, and Politics
Shirley Denson: Exploring the Relationship between Early Childhood Experiences, Development and
Quality of Education as it Relates to Female Criminality
Chair: Julie Davis
Traditions
Room
Tolerance and Questions of Epistemology
Nance Cunningham: Exploring the Educational Value of Endurance in the Context of Severe Pain
Christiaan Mitchell: Evaluating Evalutivism: Coordinating Culture and Personal Epistemologies
Lady Branham: An Immodest Proposal
Chair: Shawn Pendley
Alma Wilson
Room
Dewey, Embodiment, and Leaving No Live Creature Behind
Steven Mackie: “Life Goes On in an Environment”: Learning from Place
Michael Surbaugh: “No Creature Lives Merely Under Its Skin”: Aesthetic Learning for People with
Disabilities
Charles Joseph Meinhart: “By Accommodation and Defense, But Also by Conquest”: Boys Learning to
be Men
Chair: Johnnie-Margaret McConnell
Heritage
Room
Keynote Speech
Suzanne Rice: Educating for Tolerance
(con’t)
3:154:30
Diversity Roundtable
Voices of Students: Diversity Awareness in the University of Oklahoma’s College of Education
Anita Hopson Malone and Members of the Diversity Committee
Dr. Suzanne Rice is interested in moral philosophy and moral education, philosophical questions in curriculum, the educative
possibilities in communication, and education policy. Current projects focus on practice and cultivation of “trust” and “tolerance.”
She teaches courses in philosophy of education and curriculum studies. Rice has received numerous university-wide awards for
teaching and is a Gene A. Budig Teaching Professor; she has twice received the University of Kansas School of Education award for
excellence in research.
Oklahoma Educational Studies Association (OESA)
OESA is an academic organization founded in 2001 to support graduate students and faculty in Education Studies. However,
membership in OESA is open to all graduate students and faculty at the University of Oklahoma who are involved in educational
inquiry and are in good academic standing, and committed to high quality scholarship and inquiry in the various fields of education.
Educational Studies derives its character and methods from a number of academic disciplines and area studies, including history,
philosophy, sociology, anthropology, religion, political science, economics, psychology, cultural studies, gender studies and
educational policy studies.
A Special Thanks to our Sponsors:
The Office of Student Affairs, Vice President Clarke Stroud
The Office of the Provost, Vice President Nancy Mergler
The Honors College, Dean Robert Con Davis-Undiano
University of Oklahoma Student Associations
Bert and Janice Mackie
World Literature Today
The Greenwood Cultural Center, Executive Director Frances Jordan
The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. For accommodations on the basis of disability please contact ladyb@ou.edu, 325-3655.