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Program

Wednesday 30th November:

10.00-11.00

Registration 

11.00-13.30

Opening session with Norbert Wiley, Mark Johnson and Andrea English: Views on pragmatism today and dialogue with and amongst conference participants  

13.30-14.30

Lunch

14.30-16.30

Antje Gimmler, Aalborg University: “Pragmatism as applied philosophy”

Tibor Solymosi, Mercyhurst University: “Recipes for Experience: Democracy, Education, Art and the Brain” 

Anders Buch, Aalborg University: “Doing the right thing”

Stine Ejsing-Duun and Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Aalborg University: ”Three Modes of Inquiry in Design-Pedagogy”

16.30-17.00

Walk to the city

17.00-19.00

Aros Museum/Art-exhibition

19.00

Dinner at Godsbanen/the Old Train Freight Yards 

Thursday 1st December: 

9.00-10.30

Key note 1:

Andrea English, University of Edinburgh: "Learning the Loss of Imagination: What Dewey offers in times of educational crisis"

Discussion 

10.30-11.00

Coffee break  

11.00-13.00

Laura Karttunen, University of Eastern Finland: “Dewey Meets Narrative Theory in a Literature and Medicine Class”  

Matthew Crippen, American University in Cairo: “Dewey’s Democracy and Education: Merging Sciences, Arts and Greek Concepts of Experience”   

Sune Frølund: Dewey on the precarious man-nature-relation

Ulf Dalvad Berthelsen, Aarhus University, ”Dewey on 21st Century Education”

13.00-14.00

Lunch 

14.00-15.30

Key note 2:

Norbert Wiley, Paradox and Doubt: Two sources of Derrida’s anomie

Discussion

15.30-16.00

Coffee Break

16.00-18.00

Shannon Sullivan via Phillip McReynolds, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA): “Dewey on Race, Colonialism, and Education” 

Phillip McReynolds, The University of North Carolina: “Education as Evolutionary Growth: Democracy, Pragmatism, and Autopoiesis”

Christina Matthiesen, Aarhus University: “Teachers’ Reflections on Role Modelling and Pragmatism”

Morten Tannert: “Social Engineering in Subject Matter Didactics”

19.00

Conference dinner 

Friday 2nd December: 

9.00-10.30

Key note 3:

Mark Johnson, University of Oregon: "Pragmatism and Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Thought”.

Discussion

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-12.30

Deli Salini, IUFFP Istituto Universitario Federale per la Formazione Professionale: “Advice in Validation of Prior Learning and Anticipation Of Experience”  

Carsten Fogh Nielsen, Aarhus University: “Imitation, Education and Pragmatism – a contemporary view”  

Anders Kruse Ljungdalh, Aarhus University: “The Epistemological Potential of the Pathological”

12.30-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

Closing plenary