Draft program |
Day 1 – Saturday
1 September |
| 8.30-9.00 |
Registration |
| 9.00-9.05 |
Housekeeping and introduction of the Vice Chancellor
of the Australian National University by Kevin White |
| 9.05-9.20 |
Welcome by Professor Ian Chubb, AO, Vice Chancellor,
Australian National University |
| 9.20-10.30 |
Educating for Autonomy: More on the Case of God
v John Rawls
Keynote address: Professor Susan Mendus |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Morning tea |
| 11.00-12.30 |
Religious schools and the promotion of civic
virtue
Andrew Long |
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Religion, education and civil society: A sociological
perspective
Lawrence J. Saha |
| 12.30-1.30 |
Lunch |
| 1.30-3.00 |
Faith based schools and social capital: Catholic
schools and the aspirational middle class
Margaret Freund |
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What knowledge for understanding? Addressing
ignorance of Islam in Australian schools
Joel Windle |
| 3.00-3.30 |
Afternoon tea |
| 3.30-5.30 |
Moral Education: can a ‘common values’
approach halt the slide from tolerance to relativism?
Carol Collins and Sue Knight |
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Should the state instil the virtue of tolerance?
Peter Balint |
Day 2 – Sunday
2 September |
| 9.15-10.30 |
Religious values in public education in America:
A continuing battleground
Keynote address: Professor James T. Richardson |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Morning tea |
| 11.00-12.30 |
The value-ladenness of educational epistemology
– How can we come to know the world disconnect us from the
world we come to know?
Ronald S. Laura and Amy K. Chapman |
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Tolerance and empathy: Exploring contemplative
methods in the class-room
Padmasiri de Silva |
| 12.30-1.30 |
Lunch |
| 1.30-3.00 |
Tolerance, relativism and dogmatism
Sarah Lublink Daley |
| 3.00-3.30 |
Afternoon tea |
| 3.30-4.45 |
Educating for tolerance
Keynote address: Professor Philip Cam |
| 4.45-5.00 |
Thanks and farewell, Elizabeth Burns Coleman |
