Research Symposium - Illuminating what is elemental to human education and teaching (in our historical present)

Please join us for the face-to-face Research Symposium.  This year's Keynote Speaker is Dr. Natasha Levinson and she will be addressing The Surprisingly Sustaining Futility of Education.  Dr. Levinson is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education and Interprofessional Studies in the Cultural Foundations of Education program at Kent State University, Ohio.  She has published articles in Philosophy of Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College Record and Educational Theory although her best and least public work is in the increasingly on-line spaces of teaching that allow time and space for working through difficult concepts and difficult educational emotions. 

Please click here for her abstract. 

Day One

9:30 a.m. Researching International and Contemporary Education (RICE) Keynote Address

• Welcome and land acknowledgement: Dean Donna Kostsopolus
• Introduction to the 1.5 day research symposium: Paul Tarc
• RICE Keynote Speaker: Natasha Levinson - The Surprisingly Sustaining Futility of Education
  
  

10:45 a.m. Seminar: Illuminating what is elemental to education and teaching in the historical present

• Introductory comments on theme (Paul Tarc)
• Small to large group discussion on the keynote address
• Invited Talk: Ivan Zamotkin – Arendt-inspired PE scholarship on education, schooling and teaching
• Small to large group discussion on the invited talk
  
  

Lunch 

1:15 p.m. Engaging ‘The Class’ as a representation of being educated, of schooling, of the teacher, and of classroom pedagogy

• Introduction to the film The Class as an object/thing for (educational/pedagogical) thinking (Natasha)
• Viewing of a small portion(s) of the film
• Small group discussion on the film (as a whole and on the portion shared): ‘Instrumental and profane’ readings
• Implications: Conceiving, practising and researching schooling/classroom pedagogy
  
  

2:30 pm Critical/Worldly Education SSHRC-funded Project: Illuminating teacher’s ‘transformative pedagogy’

• Introduction to the research project and preliminary sketches of participant-teachers’ praxes (Paul)
• What makes (possible) a social justice education? The case of Sasha (Nicholas Ng-A-Fook)
• Small to large group discussion
  
  

Day Two

10:00 a.m. Panel: What is elemental to education and pedagogy? Extended/alternative insights

• Introduction (Paul)
• Invited speakers:
  Aparna Mishra Tarc - Significant education
  Ivan Zamotkin – Hannah Arendt as Pedagogue
  Jiayue Jiang - Progressive pedagogy and/as governmentality
  
  

11:45 a.m. Break

12:00 p.m. Reading Discussion Session 3: Beyond School or the Public School: The Question of the Common

Chair: Gus Riveros