Re: Their Wars Left Behind: Education for Action -- Upcoming

[aburke5054@aol.com]

 I think a clue to the greatness of the conference comes from the last entry, "What to do? Organizing and proposals for action. (Room to be determined)".
 
 Yup. They're really the ones to organize and lead us to action, all right. That is, if they agree on a room.
 
 Art 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: rougeforum@pipeline.com
 To: arn-l@interversity.org
 Sent: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 9:06 AM
 Subject: [arn-l] Their Wars Left Behind: Education for Action -- Upcoming Conference in Detroit MARCH 1-4, 2007
 
  This promises to be a great conference. Please join us if you can. More information available at RougeForum.org. Contact rougeforum@pipeline.com or rgibson2@pipeline.com with questions or for additional information.
 
 
 Tentative schedule:
 
 
 The Rouge Forum presents
 
 Their Wars Left Behind: Education for Action
 
 (National Conference on How to Be Anti-War & Pro-Learning)
 
 
 
 THURSDAY, MARCH 1 – SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007
 
  
 
 Wayne State University, Manoogian Hall (map) 
 
 NW corner of Warren & Third Street, Detroit
 
  
 
 Thursday Night (3-1-07)
 
  
 
 8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at the Zeitgeist. Discussion to follow.
 
 
 
 Friday (3-2-07)
 
  
 
 9:00-9:30…….… Meet and Greet
 
 9:30- 10:30….…. Susan Ohanian- Authored Why Is Corporate America Bashing
 
 Our Schools? and co-authored What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children 
 
 Struggling in Kindergarten? (Room 91)
 
 10:45-12:00…….. Steve Fleury and Eugenio Basualdo Toward Liberalizing Vocational Education 
 
 Joseph Cronin, The Knowledge Based Economy, Educational Debt, and Class Reproduction (Room 43)
 
 Susan Newel- FAME: Finding Alternative to Military Enlistment 
 
 Nancy Patterson, Free Speech in the Balance (Room 54)
 
 Scott Craig FLEX  Education, (Room 91)
 
 12:00-1:30……... Lunch
 
 1:30-2:45………. Elizabeth Jaegar, The Downer 5 and 
 
 Susan Harman, (Room 43)
 
 Steve Strauss, Global Transformation of Public Education under Neoliberal Influence 
 
 Tim Cashman, The United States and Its Wars; Mexican Teachers’ Perspective (Room 54)
 
 Rich Gibson Why Have Schools 
 
  Eric Ferris, Social Class: America’s Well Kept Dirty Little Secret (Room 91)
 
 3:00-3:30…….…George Schmidt (Room 91)
 
 3:30-4:00………. M.L. Liebler Poetry and Music (Room 91)
 
 
 
 8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at the Zeitgeist. Discussion to follow.
 
 
 
 Saturday (3-3-07)
 
  
 
 9:00-9:30…….… Meet and Greet
 
 9:30-10:30…….. Patrick Shannon (Room 91)
 
 10:45-12:00……. Fran Shor Bush League Spectacles (Room 43)
 
 Adam Renner The Achievement Gap in Mathematics 
 
 Carolyn Stirling, Burqas, Bombs and Bleeding Hearts: The Role(s) of Antiracist/Culturally Inclusive Education (Room 54)
 
  Peter Werbe (Room 91)
 
 12:00-1:30……... Lunch
 
 1:30-2:45………. Dave Hill, Class, Capital and Education in this Neoliberal NeoConservative Period 
 
 Faith Wilson , Downsized Discourse: Classroom Management, Corporate Talk, and the Shaping of Correct Workplace Attitudes (Room 43)
 
 Michael Peterson 
 
 Wayne Ross (Room 54)
 
 Nancye McCrary 
 
 Richard Kamler Artist as Citizen in Contemporary Society (Room 91)
 
 3:00-3:30…….… Rich Gibson (Room 91)
 
 3:30-4:00…….… Alan Franklin, Music (Room 91)
 
 
 
 8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at the Zeitgeist. Discussion to follow.
 
 
 
 Sunday (3-4-07) What to do? Organizing and proposals for action. (Room to be determined)
 
 
 
 
 
 Schedule subject to change. See RougeForum.org for any changes.
 
 
 
 
 
   
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