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CAVE HILL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM 2008

PROGRAMME

All sessions will be held in Room A, The Shell Suite .

Please click on the links for access to the papers.

In each panel, presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length, leaving 10 minutes for discussion.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28, 2008

8.30 am - 9 am
Registration (outside Shell Suite)

9 am - 9.30 am: Session 1
OPENING SESSION

• Dr Victor Simpson (Deputy Dean, Outreach, Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI, Cave Hill): Introductory Remarks

Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

9.30 am - 10.45 am: Session 2
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Prof. Paul Ernest: Knowledge and the Aims of the University (link is to slides in a Word document)

Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

10.45 am - 11.00 am
Coffee break

11.00 am - 1.00 pm: Session 3
FUTURES FOR THE UWI

• Lawrence O. Bamikole: The Knowledge/Wisdom Distinction: Implications for Develoment Oriented Education
• Edward Bermingham SJ : The Coming of a Post-Modern University at the UWI?
• Paget Henry: The Place of Indo-Caribbean Philosophy in the Caribbean Academy
• Cameron McCarthy: Movement and Stasis in the Neoliberal Re-Orientation of Schooling and the University

Chair: Stephen Geofroy

1.00 pm - 1.45 pm: Lunch

1.45 pm - 3.45 pm: Session 4
ELITE/MASS EDUCATION

• Stephen Burwood: The Creation of Equals
• Donna Maynard: The Road to Success for All is Paved with Good Intentions: Student Welfare in the Midst of Mass Tertiary Education
• Sandra McCalla: A Critical Examination of Human Values in Tertiary Education

Chair: Maureen Lucas

3.45 pm - 4.00 pm
Coffee Break

4.00 pm - 6.00 pm: Session 5
VALUES IN EDUCATION

• Mejame Ejede Charley: [not presented] The Severance between Education and Being in the Philosophy of Michel Henry
• W. Scott Clifton: Learning from Fiction and How Fiction Should Be Taught
• Martin Schade: Know Thyself! The Imperative for Tertiary Education and Beyond
• Mark Setton: Liberal Education in a Shrinking World

Chair: Roxanne Burton

6.00 pm - 8 pm
RECEPTION

This will be held at the Sports Verandah and shared with the Coference on English Literature that is being held at the same time.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 29, 2008

9.00 a.m. - 11.00: Session 6

AT RISK GROUPS OF STUDENTS, COUNSELLING AND LEADERSHIP

• Stella Gonzalez-Arnal and Majella M Kilkey: Contextualizing Rationality: Mature student carers and higher education in England
• Wanda S. Pillow: Needs Discourses, Teen Mothers, & Girls' Educational Attainment
• Dick Stoute: Tertiary Education's Role Determining Dilemma
• Eric Weber: Democracy, Leadership, and Higher Education

Chair: Ed Brandon

11.00 am - 11.15 am
Coffee Break

11.15 am - 1.15 pm: Session 7
INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES

• Ed Brandon: Some Limits of Institutional Rationality
• Kelly Heuer: Care and the Pedagogical Relationship: A Teleological Approach
• Clevis Headley: The Ethics of Education: bell hooks' conception of Education as the Practice of
  Freedom
• Matthew F. Pierlott: Assessment and Academic Freedom in Higher Education
  

1.15 pm - 2.00 pm: Lunch

2.00 pm - 4.30 pm: Session 8
CHALLENGING THE POLITICS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

• John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji: Tertiary Education and the Place of Education in Society - Transcending Plantocracy, Coloniality and Neo-Coloniality
• Deryck Murray: Harris, Whitehead and Wynter: Forcing new imaginings through textual and ritual liminality in tertiary education
• Nigel Newton: Making The Dish Run Away With The Spoon: Using Education For The Transformation
  of Post-Colonial Caribbean Society
• Laurence Parker: The similar is different: Exploring Critical Race Studies, Africana Studies and Education Policy connections/distinctions
• Elaine P. Rocha: The applicability of Paulo Freire’s method to tertiary education in the Caribbean

Chair: Paget Henry

4.30 pm - 5.15 pm: Session 9
ROUND-UP

• Paul Ernest and others

5.15 - 5.30 Closing Session

• Richard Goodridge