1st Global Conference

Friday 10th September - Sunday 12th September 2004
Mansfield College, Oxford

Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

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The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.2)

Friday 10th September

from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Jones Irwin

14.15
Keynote Speaker
Chair: Jones Irwin

Joseph Dunne
Thinking with Children

15.45
Tea

16.15
Session 1: Thinking, Philosophy & Teenagers
Chair: Rob Fisher

Somebodies-In-Particular: The Scenario Approach to Philosophy with High School Students

Sharon Kaye
Paul Thomson

17.45
Wine Reception

19.00
Dinner

Saturday 11th September
09.30
Session 2 – Stories, Narratives and Imagination
Chair: Thomas Wartenberg

Marc Bobro
The Folkoric Approach

Menno Lievers
Dat is waar

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 3: Children and Philosophical Games
Chair: Joseph Dunne

Larisa Retyunskikh
Children, Games and Philosophy

Megan Laverty
Wittgenstein’s Children and Children’s Philosophy

Shura Tarnopolskaya
to be confirmed

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 4: Alternative Approaches
Chair: Paul Thomson

Goedele De Swaef
A Decade of European Thought

Sergey Stepanischev
Escape Education

Hina Anwar Ali
The Unenlightened Enlightenment

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 5: Workshop
Chair: Megan Laverty

Thomas Wartenberg
College Students as Philosophic Facilitators

17.30
Sessions End

19.00
Dinner

Sunday 12th September
09.30
Session 6: Some Opportunities and Problems of Irish ‘Thinking-Time’
Chair: Sharon Kaye

Anne Rousseau
Philosophy with Children

Jones Irwin
Ethos, Children and Plato’s Meno

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 7: Children, Values and Issues
Chair: Goedele de Swaef

Roberta Vicentini
A Community of Thinking: Philosophising with Young People About Ecological Issues

Indranie Ram
In the Interests of Children

Maughn Gregory
Pragmatist Value Inquiry

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 8: Cultural Contexts of Children’s Thinking
Chair: Roberta Vicentini

Sanjana Mehta
Philosophy for Children and moral development in the Indian context

Ayana Dereef
Fatal Flaw: The Lack of Philosophical Thinking in African-American Children

Vasudev Das
Factors Affecting the African Child’s Right to Inquire

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Development Meeting

16.30
Conference Close
Rob Fisher and Jones Irwin