Sharon Todd
INPE President
Welcome, bienvenidos, fáilte, wilkommen, ahlan wa sahlan, karibu to our first ever INPE newsletter!
I consider myself fortunate to be president of such an amazing organisation - one that is committed to developing and sustaining international conversation about philosophy of education and its relevance across a range of contemporary issues. We have been in existence since 1988 and today more than ever we are looking at new ways of building community across different intellectual traditions. As you will see in this inaugural issue of INPErson we are developing a series of on-line activities for members alongside our upcoming Conference in Copenhagen in 2022. An organisation is only as strong as the people who are in it so please consider joining us and become part of the conversation!
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Terry McLaughlin
by Paul Smeyers
Terence (Terry) H. McLaughlin
(1949-2006) was Professor of Philosophy of Education University of London Institute of Education (since 2003), Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge, and formerly Senior Lecturer in Education in the University of Cambridge Department of Education (1979-2003). He was a pivotal figure in the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. Interested in faith schooling and citizenship education, his central concern to which he returned time and again was how to provide a common public education that might serve to promote maximum possible individual liberty. Though INPE’s first meeting was in 1988, it took till 1996 before the Constitution was passed. Terry became Convenor of the Steering Committee (this Officer’s position was later renamed President) till his untimely death in March 2006.
For further information:
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240600874711
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Terence-H-McLaughlin-2021406184
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Past _INPEvent
Online Conference 2020 'Education, the environment and sustainability'
by Kai Horsthemke (Programme Chair)
Due to the omnipresent pandemic, the 17th Biennial Meeting of INPE took place as an online event on 6 and 7 November 2020. Scheduling a total of 23 presentations from 13 different countries, from Japan via India, Europe and South Africa to Brazil, Colombia and the Pacific Northwest proved a major challenge, given the huge discrepancy in time zones. Keynote speakers were Vanessa De Oliveira Andreotti and Helena Pedersen. With a total of 298 registered participants, the event was a resounding success, made especially memorable by the gradual transpiring of the US election results.
Visit INPE’s Facebook page to access the video recording of all sessions!
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Next_INPEvent
Online Roundtable Discussion “Academic freedom and the fallacy of a post-truth era”
with Nuraan Davids from University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Paul Smeyers INPE’s past-president and editor of Ethics and Education.
When: 9 February, 2021 12h30-13h30 UTC
What? The belief that we are living in a post-truth age raises a number of complex, paradoxical questions. Does it suggest, for example, that truth no longer matters? Or, that the idea of truth no longer exists? The university, of course, has long been associated with the interests of truth – not only in searching for truth, but in telling the truth. This is made evident in its emphasis on logic, rationality, deliberation, debate, reason, contemplation, reflection, and academic freedom. Truth, and its ensuing perspectives, perceptions, agreements, and conflicts, are what makes a university what it is.
How to register? Become an INPE member and you will get access to this and all future events.
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INPEworld
INPE aims at the promotion of conversations across worldviews in the field of education and the facilitation of better understanding between different experiences and schools of thought. In forthcoming newsletters, we will be sharing initiatives and activities that reflect the various ways we are doing philosophy of education around the world.
Share yours!
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'Educación: otros lenguajes', book collection edited by Jorge Larrosa and Carlos Skliar (@cskliar)
Since its inception in 2004, the collection has published 21 titles. The first volume, Entre Pedagogía y Literatura, coordinated by the editors of the collection, was already a declaration: to open the language of education, of pedagogy, alter it, pluralize it, modifying the pedagogical library, welcoming and promoting other ways of reading, and writing in education. Since then the collection has incorporated cinema, philosophy, the arts, and literature, trying to constitute, from there, a pedagogical language sensitive to experience and difference, thoughtful and capable of giving thought. Something like a “poetic” of Education, in the Greek sense of the word, that is, as bringing the world of education into existence without canceling its uniqueness and mystery.
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Philosophy of Education Reading Network, coordinated by Elizabeth O’Brien (@ElizM_OBrien) and Victoria Jamieson (@VickyKJamieson)
 Since July 2020, The Philosophy of Education Reading Network has met virtually on the 3rd Tuesday of each month to discuss a text chosen by the group. The session is opened with a brief overview and some questions or provocations posed by someone familiar with the text. The group connects people from across the globe in their philosophy of education reading interests, and as a community. Details on how to join, books we have read and questions which have been raised during their discussion, as well as the books which have been suggested for future reading, are on http://philofed.com and @philofed.
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