Far Western Philosophy of Education Society Conference Program

Conference Program

Wednesday, January 14
5:00 - 6:00PM	Registration and Check in	In Front of Center Stage
6:00PM -	FWPES BAR-B-Q and line dancing

Thursday, January 15
8:00 - 9:00AM	Registration and Check in	In Front of Center Stage
9:00AM	Welcome to Utah Valley State College and FWPES
9:10 - 10:10AM	SESSION 0: Presidential Address: Jeannie Lum, Ph.D., University of Hawaii The Intersection between Philosophy and Education
10:10 - 10:40AM	REFRESHMENTS
10:40 - 12:00PM	SESSION IA: Gary Parnell, Ph.D., Snow College. An Aesthetic Evaluation of Teaching: Extrapolating from Hume and Kant Mary Abascal - Hildebrand, Ph.D., University of San Francisco. Why a Philosophic Anthropology
	SESSION IB: Rene R. Calandria, University of Santo Tomas, Phillipines. Filipino Values: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Benjamin W. Eliason, Brigham Young University. Coming to America: The Challenge Chinese Students Face When They Come to American Universities
	SESSION IC: Jenny Chamberlain, Utah Valley State College. The Media’s Miseducation of Young People
12:00 - 1:30PM	FWPES LUNCH
1:30 - 2:50PM	SESSION IIA: Christa Albrecht-Crane, Ph.D., Utah Valley State College. Turning It On: Affect in the Classroom Martin L. Kokol, Ed.D., Utah Valley State College. The Different Languages of Philosophy and Education
	SESSION IIB: Christopher G. Griffin, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University. Liberty and Liberal Education: A Philosophical Analysis Eric C.Sheffield, Ph.D., Southwest Missouri State University. Beyond Abstraction: Philosophy as a Practical Qualitative Research Method
2:50 - 3:20PM	REFRESHMENTS
3:20 - 4:40PM	SESSION IIIA: Ron Bohannon, Utah Valley State College. Dialectic Rhetoric: Reflexive Discursive Praxis Dennis Michael Arthus G. Muega, Ph.D., University of Phillipines. Hypertext and Linear Text-Bases Student Papers as Indices of Critical Research Abilities
	SESSION IIIB: Elizabeth Hendrix, University of Alabama. "No Child Left Behind - Behind Child Left, No?" Max Gulias II, Southwestern Oregon Community College. Attention Shoppers: Students as Customers in Theory and Practice
6:00 - 7:30PM	FWPES RECEPTION with quartet
Friday, January 16
8:00 - 9:00AM	Final Registration	In Front of Center Stage
9:00 - 10:20AM	SESSION IVA: Harold Ravitch, Ph.D., Los Angeles Valley College. I Have Never Been Anyone’s Teacher W. Russ Payne, Ph.D., Bellevue Community College (WA) Diversity and the Socratic Method
	SESSION IVB: A. Legrand Richards III, Ph.D., Brigham Young University. The New Order of Tabulation: Trying to Gather Figs from Thistles Dennis Knepp, Ph.D., Big Bend Community College. The Joy of Borrowing: A Case Study in the Philosophy of Plagiarism
10:20 - 10:50AM	REFRESHMENTS
11:00 - 12:15PM	SESSION V: Keynote ROOM: Regan Theatre John Searle, D. Phil., UC-Berkeley. "The Future of Higher Education"
12:15 - 1:30PM	LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (FWPES BOARD MEETING)
1:30 - 2:50PM	SESSION VIA: Stacy Taniguchi, Brigham Young University. Outdoor Education and Meaningful Learning: Finding the Attributes to Meaningful Learning Experiences in an Outdoor Education Program Felicia Cavalini, Ph.D, Lamar University The Importance of Incorporating Wellness and Exercise Principles in the Curriculum in Teacher Preparation Education Programs
	SESSION VIB: Chris Foster, Ph.D. Brigham Young University. Finding Meno: How to teach Logic to Young People Rod Jenks, Ph.D., Chemeketa Community College (OR). Moral Expertise in Plato's Laches
2:50 - 3:20PM	REFRESHMENTS
3:20 - 4:40PM	SESSION VIIA: Clifford T. Mayes, Ph.D. Psy.D., Brigham Young University. Some Dimensions of Spirituality in Curriculum Theory Brian Birch, Ph.D., Utah Valley State College; David Keller, Ph.D., Utah Valley State College; Elaine Englehardt, Ph.D., Utah Valley State College; Karen Mizell, Ph.D., Utah Valley State College. Teaching Ethics in a Religiously Homogenous Community
6:15 - 8:30PM	FWPES BANQUET and entertainment