North East Philosophy of Education Society annual conference
Philadelphia
United States
Sponsor(s):
- Villanova University
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NEPES Annual Meeting 10.8.2022 Villanova University (PA)
As we enter the third year of the global pandemic, the reality of teaching and learning proves a necessary human endeavor, and a puzzling one at that. Students, teachers, and families have struggled through intermittent school closures, distance learning, and in-person teaching among other things. Acknowledging that not every situation must yield returns,one might nevertheless wonder, “What can be learned from teaching in these challenging times?” Specifically, we mightquestion where we can retrieve the “intellectual fellowship and radical openness” that bell hooks (1994) believes are “the heart and soul of learning” (p.205).
In Teaching to Transgress hooks writes,
“Talking about pedagogy, thinking about it critically, is not the intellectual work that most folks think is hip and cool. Cultural criticism and feminist theory are the areas of my work that are most deemed interesting by student and colleagues alike. Most of us are not inclined to see discussion of pedagogy as central to our academic work and intellectual growth, or the practice of teaching as work that enhances and enriches scholarship. Yet it has been the mutual interplay of thinking, writing and sharing ideas as an intellectual and teacher that creates whatever insights are in my work. My devotion to that interplay keeps me teaching in academic settings, despite their difficulties” (p.205).
She invites us to think of our pedagogy critically and creatively as an intersectional space that may generate theory. Additionally, hooks challenges us to move beyond the opposition between the practice of teaching and intellectual work which so often plagues the thinking of academia and of policy makers. And, she compels us to consider philosophically the practice of teaching and to think of schools as places to seek out intellectual fellowship and radical openness.
With this call, NEPES invites work that engages hooks’ recommendations. We seek papers from scholars of any rank or career stage that respond to the theme, whether as specific or broad interpretations. In addition and alternatively, we invite paper and panel proposals on any topic that deepens our collective understanding of philosophy and education.
Reference:
hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, 1994.
Please direct any questions to NEPES Vice President and Program Chair
Cristina Cammarano [email protected]
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