Philosophy and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
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Columbia University

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Fall 2011


September 15 Philip W. Jackson, University of Chicago
"What is Education?"

September 22 Shilpi Sinha, Adelphi University
"Revisiting the Discourse of the Caring Teacher-Student Relationship in Public Education"

October 13 Claudia Ruitenberg, University of British Columbia
"Indebtedness, Complicity and Bad Faith: Considering an Ethic of  Hospitality in Education for Social Justice"

November 3Luise McCarty, Indiana University"
Cosmopolitan Bildung as a New Ideal of University Education"

November 17 "The Teacher and the World: A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education": A Book Launch

Commentator and Chair: Winston Thompson, New York University
Commentators: Eduardo Duarte, Hofstra University
Shaireen Rasheed, Long Island University
Rene V. Arcilla, New York University
Respondent:David Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University


December 1 Daniel Friedrich, Teachers College, Columbia University
"Memoryscape and the Limits of Democratic Education"


December 8 Visiting scholars' presentations, Program in Philosophy and Education