Wagma Mommandi, PhD student in educational foundations, policy and practice, has been selected for the new Graduate Institute in Philosophy of Education, which begins this month with a 10-day intensive summer course held June 13-24 in Chicago.
Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Madison鈥檚 , the Graduate Institute in Philosophy of Education aims to support the cultivation of new scholars with the knowledge and skills for future philosophical engagement with education.
A competitive program, Mommandi is one of only 15 graduate students involved in the institute. All participants are graduate students from schools of education or philosophy departments who are interested in pursuing normative questions of policy and practice in education.
The summer course is led by the directors of the Center for Ethics and Education, and the program also includes multi-day sessions with invited scholars Daniel Weinstock, from McGill University, and our own Michele Moses, professor of educational foundations, policy and practice.
The course focuses on two themes: 1) justice and higher education and 2) the democratic aims of education. Participants will examine a variety of philosophic work on these themes and consider relevant social science research that helps identify questions of philosophic interest. At the end of the course, students will be expected to develop an abstract for a future paper that will be submitted to the American Educational Research Association鈥檚 (AERA) annual meeting.
Participants will regroup again in the winter and spring to discuss their papers during a workshop to be held prior to the American Philosophical Association鈥檚 Central Division Conference and a second workshop to review final drafts held just prior to AERA鈥檚 Annual Meeting in April.
The Center for Ethics and Education will support the graduate students鈥� involvement in the summer course and workshops and registration for both conferences.
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