CFP Tenth International Conference of the International Development Ethics Association on Education, Democracy, and Development

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Call for Papers for the Tenth International Conference of the
International Development Ethics Association
on Education, Democracy, and Development

Bamako, Mali
January 2013

Organized by
The International Development Ethics Association (IDEA)
with
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, the College of
Education, and the Program in Ethics and Development, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI;
and the Institute for Popular Education, Kati, Mali


The goals of the IDEA Conference on Education, Democracy, and
Development are in line with the history of IDEA and its vision of
development ethics and ethical development. The conference aims to

• clarify the moral challenges that education reform faces and the
practical problems the current system of education poses for
individual and social well-being and for democratic governance;
• identify effective responses to these moral challenges and practical
problems;
• further the scholarship on development ethics through the process of
bringing theory to practice.

In Mali (and countries facing similar challenges) the combination of
truncated educational progress, limited cultural tolerance, economic
want, political fragility, rapid demographic change, and the
reorganization of higher education has resulted in a set of practical
problems at the intersection of education and democracy. These are
the practical problems which the IDEA Conference on Education,
Democracy, and Development will address.

Paper proposals are invited in areas such as
A. curricular reform
B. bi-lingual and multi-lingual education
C. indigenous knowledge systems
D. gender and educational opportunity
E. teacher training
F. systematic cheating and plagiarism
G. labor laws, marital laws, tax laws, and property laws
H. moral education
I. democratic citizenship
J. environmental ethics education
K. religion and education
L. interdisciplinary education and research
M. study abroad and international student exchange
N. instructor-student relationships and effective mentoring
O. taxation and the funding of public education.

Papers should examine these issues from diverse theoretical and
conceptual perspectives including philosophical argument, empirical
analysis, examinations of policy, and action strategies. The
conference will engage scholars and practitioners from around the
world and from a wide variety of disciplines and activities (including
philosophy and other humanities, social sciences, policy studies,
development, social work, NGOs, local and global agencies and
organizations, government officials and policy makers). IDEA
particularly welcomes submissions from scholars and practitioners in
South countries.

All papers will be given in plenary sessions (no concurrent sessions),
but then time will be set aside for smaller break-out discussion
sessions in various forms throughout the conference.

The working language of the conference will be French, with
simultaneous translation in English.
Submission of Abstracts. Proposals should be submitted no later than
June 1, 2012 by email to Stephen L. Esquith at esq...@msu.edu and
should include:
1. An abstract of 500 words
2. Name, affiliation, and contact information on a separate page
3. A biography of under 100 words (for the conference program)

Organizing Committee:
• Stephen L. Esquith, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities,
Michigan State University
• Shannon Brown, Fairtrade Canada, Ottawa, ON
• Samantha Noll, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University
• Petra Tschakert, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State
University
• Maria Diarra, Institute for Popular Education, Kati, Mali
• Debbie Fredo, Institute for Popular Education, Kati, Mali
• Jack Schwille, College of Education, Michigan State University