Cohen Hall 392
The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce a colloquium by Derrick Darby (Michigan) next Friday 23rd October, 3-5pm. Professor Darby will speak on Ideology, Inequality, and Injustice in Education. There will also be a workshop on the History and Philosophy of Education on Saturday and Sunday, 24-25th October. The program is below. Both events are open to all.
The Philosophy and History of Education
Philosophy Department Colloquium
Friday 23rd October, 3-5pm
Cohen Hall 402
Derrick Darby (University of Michigan)
Ideology, Inequality, and Injustice in Education
What, if anything, is wrong with student tracking? I argue that considering the ideological origins of the racial achievement gap, which are rooted in the belief familiar to readers of Hume, Kant, and Jefferson that blacks are inferior to whites in intellect, supports a normative criticism of this contemporary K-12 educational practice.
Reception to follow
Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Education
Saturday 24th October to Sunday 25th October
Cohen Hall 392
Saturday
9:30-10am
Coffee and breakfast on site
10-11am
Marguerite Deslaurier (Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada)
Nature and Custom in the Education of Women: Mario Equicola (1470-1525) and Marie de Gournay (1565-1645)
11-12noon
Lisa Shapiro (Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Learning from experience: Why getting the metaphysics right matters
12:15-1:15
Group discussion of media outreach project
1:15-2:15
Lunch on site
2:15-3:15
Charlotte Sabourin (Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada)
A Family Guided by Reason: Spinoza on Education
3:15-4:15
Eric Schliesser (Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; and BOF Research Professor, Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium)
Cultivating the Natural Sentiment: De Grouchy on the Institutions of Education
4:30-6pm
Student works-in-progress seminar
Sunday
9:30-10am
Coffee and breakfast on site
10-11am
Jeppe von Platz (Department of Philosophy, Suffolk University, USA)
A Savage Made: The Aims and Methods of Rousseau's Negative Education
11-12noon
Martina Reuter (University Lecturer, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Rousseau, Macaulay and Wollstonecraft on Negative Education
12:15-1:15pm
Gideon Dishon (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Fulfilling the Rousseauian fantasy: Video games as natural education
1:15-2:15
Lunch on site; continuation of student works-in-progress seminar as needed
We are grateful for funding provided by the Philosophy Department at the University of Pennsylvania, The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the University Research Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Provost for Faculty’s Excellence Through Diversity Fund at the University of Pennsylvania.