APPE - SFF CALL FOR PAPERS
Best Formal Paper on Pre-College Ethics - $1,000 prize
The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, with support of the Squire Family Foundation, will sponsor a competition to advance the work of those interested in pre-college ethics. The Squire Family Foundation Award, along with a check for $1000, will be presented for the best paper submitted on approaches to teaching pre-college ethics and involving precollege students in ethics education.
IAPC Summer Courses
The Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at Montclair State University offers online summer courses that prepare teachers and philosophers to facilitate philosophical dialogue with children and adolescents, in classroom settings and elsewhere. To register or for further information contact the IAPC Programs Coordinator, Joe Oyler at
oylerj@mail.montclair.edu.
Bethpage High School: Most Philosophical School in America
June 2010 The Kids Philosophy Slam has announced its 2010 winners. Bethpage High School, which hosted the Long Island High School Ethics Bowl, has been chosen as the Most Philosophical School in America.
In addition, SherShah Atif, a student in Dr. Gerol Petruzella's philosophy class at Mt. Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown, MA (a 2009 SFF grantee), was selected as the fifth most philosophical student in America. Read his prize-winning essay, "Is the pen mightier than the sword?"
SFF Announces 2010 Grants
- Columbia University Philosophy Outreach Program
- Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children
- Yale University Philosophy Outreach Program
- New York University – EXCEL Academy
All of this year's grantees will focus on developing philosophy outreach programs; two will sponsor conferences.
APA & SFF Launch PLATO Network
The American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy in conjunction with the Squire Family Foundation has launched the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) Network, a national network for teachers interested in pre-college philosophy.
2010 APPE - Squire Family Foundation Award
In March 2010 Dr. Randall Curren, chair of the philosophy department and professor of education at Rochester University, won the 2010 Squire Family Foundation APPE award for best paper. In his essay, "Governing Classrooms Well" Dr. Curren argues that the ethics of teaching and the teaching of ethics are always intertwined. Read Dr. Curren's paper.
Congratulations, Dr. Curren!
Keeping the Child in Mind —
University of Memphis Conference on Philosophy for Children
September 11, 2009:
Memphis, Tennessee
The University of Memphis Department of Philosophy hosted a conference for children on Sept. 11, 2009. Gareth Matthews, philosophy professor at the University of Massachusetts and author of Philosophy and the Young Child, Dialogues with Children, and The Philosophy of Childhood, was the keynote speaker.
Papers Presented:
SQUIRE GRANT AWARDS
August 2009: The Squire Family Foundation announced its 2009 grants.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE
PEIG MEETS AT 2009 APPE CONFERENCE
In March 2009 The Pre-college Ethics Interest Group (PEIG) held its initial business meeting in conjunction with the APPE Annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. PEIG members include those developing pre-college ethics bowls, those teaching ethics in pre-college curriculum, and those developing pre-college ethics curricula.
If you are interested in joining PEIG , please contact Roberta Israeloff, director of the Squire Family Foundation or Professor Deni Elliot at Graduate Studies, Department of Journalism & Media Studies, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Phone: (727) 873-4857; elliott@stpt.usf.edu.
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