PESA—Friday, December 4, 2009


8:30 - 9:00    Registration and Morning Coffee


9:00 - 10:30    Keoni Auditorium        Paper Session
Chair: Hannah Tavares
            The Philosopher as Exile
            Michael A. Peters
            University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

            Caring About Strangers: A Lingisan Reading of Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’
            Ruyu Hung
            National Chiayi University, Taiwan

9:00 - 10:30      Sarimanok Room          Paper Session
    Chair: Stephen Marble
            Nation and Self: The Myth of Substantial Uniformity and the Reality of Exclusion
            Juliana Mercon
            University of Queensland, Australia

            Perception of Equality: West versus East
            Baoyan Cheng
            Department of Educational Foundations
            University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

9:00 - 10:30  Kaniela Room        Paper Session
Chair: Nathan Patla
         Developing a Web 2.0 Resource for Maori Youth: Bringing Together Two Worlds in Digital Format
            Merata Kawharu
            James Henare Maori Research Centre, University of Auckland
            and,
            Michael Hennessy
            James Henare Maori Research Centre, University of Auckland

            Aquinas and Wisdom as the Aim of Education
            Jānis Ozolinš
            Australian Catholic University

9:00 - 10:30  Pago Pago Room        Paper Session
Chair: Franklin Allaire
            The Metaphysics of Physics Education
             Robert Shaw        
            The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand

            Rethinking the Essence of Education
            Wei Bo    
            Institute for Social Economy and Culture, Peking University

10:30 - 11:00         Refreshment Break

11:00 - 12:30    Keoni Auditorium    Paper Session
Chair: Clifton Tanabe
            The Cost of Opportunity
            Linda Graham      
            Macquarie University, Australia

            The Justification of Equity and Equality in Higher Education
            Barry Bull              
            Indiana University

11:00 - 12:30    Sarimanok Room    Paper Session
Chair:  Jeannie Lum
            Where Now for Learning? Metaphor, Denotation, and Language Games
            Paul Hager       
            University of Technology, Sydney
            and,
            John Halliday    
            University of Strathclyde, Scotland

            Changing Places: Openness, Pedagogy, and Heidegger
            David Lines
            School of Music, Auckland
            and,
            Chris Naughton
            New Zealand Tertiary College, Auckland

11:00 - 12:30    Kaniela Room    Paper Session
Chair: Helen Slaughter
            The Ghost of Teachers Past: Charlotte Bronte’s Spectral Teachers
            Nesta Devine
            Auckland University of Technology

            Within the City Dwelling, There is No Room for Education
            Steven DeBurger
            Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

11:00 - 12:30    Pago Pago Room    Paper Session
Chair: David Ericson
            Confucian Philosophy of Education and the Convergence of Diverse Cultures in China: A Historical Perspective
            Liu Jun
            Institute for Social Economy and Culture, Peking University, PRC

            Bakhtinian Dialogism: A Philosophical and Methodological Route to Dialogue and Difference
            E.J. White
            Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

12:30 - 1:30           Lunch

1:30 - 3:00    Keoni Auditorium    Symposium (Part One)
Chair: David Grossman
Exploring the Moral Dimension of Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific

            Introduction and Seminar Framework
            David Grossman
            East-West Center, Hawai'i

            From Moral Individuals to Democratic Citizens: Contested Rationales for Taiwan’s Citizenship Education
            Shiowlan Doong
            National Taiwan Normal University

            Politicized and Depoliticized Versions of Civic Education in Hong Kong
            Yan Wing Leung
            Hong Kong Institute for Education
            and,
            Timothy Yuen
            Hong Kong Institute for Education

            The Moral Dimensions of Citizenship Education in Thailand
            Somwung Pitiyanuwat
            The Office of National Education Standards and Quality Assessment, Thailand

            Constructing Cultural Identity through Moral Education in Japan: The Kokoro Notebooks
            Julie Higashi
            Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

            Discussant John Cogan

1:30 - 3:00   Sarimanok Room    Paper Session
Chair:John Clark
            The Certified Clinical Ethics Consultant
            Kenneth Kipnis
            Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

            A Review of Ethics Education in Healthcare Literature and the Case for Dialogical Pedagogy
            Julie Wintrup
            School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK

1:30 - 3:00   Kaniela Room    Paper Session
Chair: Barry Bull
            Educating for Irony or Reverence: Rorty and Zhu Xi on the Appropriation of Tradition
            Joseph E. Harroff
            Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

            Foucault’s 'Educational Journey,' 1926 to 1968
            James D. Marshall
            University of Auckland and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1:30 - 3:00   Pago Pago Room    Paper Session
Chair:Derek Sankey
            Power/Knowledge for Curriculum Theory
            Chia Ling Wang
            Institute of Education, National Taiwan Ocean University

            Curriculum as Apparatus: Education and the 'Bios Politicos'
            Trevor Thwaites
            University of Auckland, New Zealand

3:00 - 3:30             Refreshment Break

3:30 - 5:30    Keoni Auditorium    Symposium     (Part Two)

Exploring the Moral Dimension of Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific
Chair: David Grossman

            Educating for a Harmonious Society: Moral and Civic Education as a Governmental Technology in Macao
            Sou-Kuan Vong
            University of Macao

            Bypassing Civic Education: Green Schools, Slow Schools, and Indigenous Education
            Gay Garland Reed
            Department of Educational Foundations, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

            An Agenda for Moral Research in Asia and the Pacific: Anti-corruption
            Yong-lin Moon
            Seoul National University, Korea

            Discussant: John Cogan, University of Minnesota


3:30 - 5:30   Sarimanok Room    Paper Session

Chair: Nesta Devine
            Educating Beyond Language: Thoughts on Moral Cultivation in 'Yizhuan.'
            Yang Liuxin
            Institute for Social Economy and Culture, Peking University, Beijing, PRC

            Bridging East and West—Or, A Bridge Too Far? Paulo Friere and the 'Tao Te Ching.'
            Peter Roberts
            University of Canterbury, New Zealand

            Soul Enlightenment and Education: A Reading of Lao-Tzu for Educational Philosophers Today
            Xu Di
            Department of Educational Foundations, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

3:30 - 5:30   Kaniela Room    Works-in-Progress Session
Chair: Tom Jackson
            Philosophy for Children in Taiwan: Old Limitations and New Possibilities
            Yeh, Tzu-Yu
            National Chiayi University, Chiayi City, Taiwan

            Acknowledging the Human Child: On Children’s Literature in and as Philosophy of Education
            Viktor Johansson
            Stockholm University, Sweden

            Play and Work, A Meeting Place: The Classroom
            Robert Peters
            Hanahauoli School, Honolulu

            Examining the Teacher-Philosopher: The Philosophy of a P4C Secondary Teacher in Hawai'i
            Chad Miller
            Department of Educational Foundations, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

3:30 - 5:30   Pago Pago Room    Works-in-Progress Session
Chair: Linda Graham
            Dialoguing the “Ethics of Integration” in Education: Towards New Pedagogical Models
            Inna Semetsky
            University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australasia
            and,
            Antonina Lukenchuck
            National Loius University, Chicago, Illinois

            Gods and Nature
            Franklin Allaire
            Department of Educational Foundations
            University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

            What Sort of Education is Really the Key to Democracy?
            Timothy Freeman
            Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i at Hilo

            Excellence and Equity in Education: A Chinese Case
            Qiong Jia
            Department of Educational Foundations, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa


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