FAITH IN SCHOOLS:

RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

A conference sponsored by the Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS)
* Global Studies, The International Institute, and the Division of International Studies * WISCAPE * UW-Madison School of Education International Education Committee * African Studies Program * Center for European Studies/European Union Center for Excellence * Center for Southeast Asian Studies * Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies
* Middle Eastern Studies Program *

University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 7 and 8, 2008
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison

Thursday, February 7, 2008, Pyle Center (check Events Board for room location; seating is limited)

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7:00 PM

Opening Remarks

Michael Fultz, Chair, Department of Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison

Gilles Bousquet, Dean, Division of International Studies, and Director, International Institute, UW-Madison

Keynote Address

John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Initiative in Pluralism, Politics, and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis.
Does Religion have a Place in the French Republican School?

       Reception to follow, AT&T Lounge, Sponsored by Global Studies Program

 

Friday, February 8, 2008, Pyle Center (check Events Board for room location)

8:00 – 8:30 AM                     Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 AM                     Welcome

8:45 – 10:00 AM          Philosophical Perspectives on Faith in Schools

Dan Pekarsky, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison
‘Faith in Schools’ Redefined: The Americanization of Jewish Education

Harry Brighouse, Professor of Philosophy and Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison 
Why Should Governments Support Religious Schools?

Discussant: Diana Hess, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison

10:00 – 10:15 AM (Break)

10:15 – Noon                Historical Perspectives on Faith in Schools

Parna Sengupta, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton College
Mission Schools, Qu'ran Schools, and the Making of Modern Religious Identity in Colonial India

Adam Nelson, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History, UW-Madison
Evangelical Protestantism, Scientific Rationalism, and American Foreign Mission Schools in the 1830s: A Critical Inquiry?

Tom Popkewitz, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison
Science, Teaching, and Teacher Education Reforms as 'Converting Ordinances': Comparative Perspectives on Secularization and the Soul

Discussant: William J. Reese, Carl F. Kaestle WARF Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History, UW-Madison

Noon – 1:30 PM          LUNCHEON

AT&T Lounge (complementary, but pre-registration is required 8-8:30 am)

1:30 – 3:15 PM             Anthropological Perspectives on Faith in Schools

Ritty Lukose, Assistant Professor of Education and Anthropology, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
From Caste to Community: Producing the ‘Social’ in Kerala, South India

Amy Stambach, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Anthropology, UW-Madison
American Protestantism and the Spirit of Development: New Christian Academies in East Africa

Zolani Ngwane, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College
Religion, Nation-building and the Politics of Higher Education Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Discussant: Stacey Lee, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison

3:15 – 3:30 (Break)

3:30 – 4:45                     Comparative Political and Policy Perspectives on Faith in Schools

Nancy Kendall, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison
Schooling as Social Vaccine and Safe Haven: How Current Efforts to Improve the Lives of Children Affected by AIDS are Shaped by Faith in "Modern" Schools

Michael Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison
On Home Schooling and the Politics of Recognition

Discussant: Larry Nesper, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies, UW-Madison

4:45 – 5:30 PM             Conference Summary, Synthesis, and Further Discussion

Michael Olneck, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology, UW-Madison