Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thursday, April 3rd
12-2 pm Symposium: Deweyan Democracy in a Time of Dismantling Public Education
Marriott, Fifth Level, Grand Ballroom B
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the publication of Dewey’s
Democracy and Education, we note the irony that public educational
institutions in the United States and many other countries are
struggling for their very survival as institutions that engage with
and reconstruct the public sphere. The 2014 John Dewey Symposium
focuses on the traditions of Deweyan democracy, utilizing and
critiquing these ideals and exploring possibilities of praxis. What
are “public” spaces in the Deweyan tradition, and how do they relate
to educational institutions and decision-making? How do teachers,
students and parents become public actors and citizens? How do
teachers and teacher unions live up to their democratic potential?
Between Public and Private: The Celebration of the Civic Realm and the
Aversion to Power in Progressive Thought, Aaron Schutz, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Teachers, Teacher Unions, and Community Organizing: Exploring the
Boundaries, Dennis Shirley, Boston College
Teacher Dissent: Engaging Power and Preserving the Public within
Public Schools, Sarah Stitzlein, University of Cincinnati
Empowering Parents or Achieving Publics? Parent Trigger Laws and
Educational Democracy, Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Miami University
2-4 pm Past President’s Panel: Revisiting Experience and Education
Marriott, Fifth Level, Grand Ballroom B
Leonard J. Waks, President Elect, John Dewey Society, Temple University, Chair
Education as Culture: An Engagement with a Deweyan Either-Or, Stefano
Oliverio, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
Innovation’s Renewing Potential: Seeing and Acting within the
Fecundity of Educative Experiences, Margaret Macintyre Latta & Susan
Crichton, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Realizing Dewey’s Constructs of Interaction and Continuity within
Democratic Classrooms, Susan Jean Mayer, Lecturer, Brandeis University
Dewey’s Criteria of Interaction and Continuity for Evaluating Project
Learning, Marshall Gordon, The Park School of Baltimore
What is a Global Experience?, William Gaudelli & Megan J. Laverty,
Teachers College, Columbia University
Larry Hickman, Past President, John Dewey Society, Director of the
Center for Dewey Society, and Professor of Philosophy at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale, Respondent
4-7 pm John Dewey Lecture
Convention Center, 100 Level 114
Diane Ravitch, “Does Evidence Matter?”
7:15-9pm Business meeting
Marriott, Fifth Level, Grand Ballroom B (light appetizers will be provided)
Friday, April 4, 2014
4-6:00pm School and Society Forum at the Barnes Foundation: Aesthetic
Learning for the Future
http://www.barnesfoundation.
Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, 19130.
Our Forum this year takes advantage of Philadelphia as the home to the
Albert C. Barnes collection housed in the beautiful new Barnes
Foundation headquarters, about one mile from conference hotels. The
Forum panelists, including local art educators and scholars, will
discuss Dewey’s Art as Experience and omitted pictures from the
original publication found in the Barnes Foundation Archives, and
explore the relevance of Dewey’s theory of aesthetics to the model of
the 21st century art museum that supports learning in the visual arts
within a region. Organized by Carolyn Berenato (St. Joseph’s
University) and Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro (Drexel University).
Panelists:
Lynette Brown, Art Teacher, Alternative Middle Years at James Martin
(AMY)- School District of Philadelphia
Pat Roberts & Nancy Blake, Directors of the AIM Academy at
Conshohocken: Learning through the arts model
Blake D. Bradford, Bernard C. Watson Director of Education, Barnes
Foundation: Educational programming based on Dewey
Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro, Ph.D., M.F.A., Drexel University: Using
technology to facilitate aesthetic learning
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