Sponsored by: 

The Rouge Forum           and  Warner Graduate School of Education  University of Rochester

 

Where:  Hoyt Hall, University of Rochester 

Featured speakers:  
 

Roy Rosenzweig  (Center for History and New Media at George Mason University) 
          
          and
  
K-12 teachers and students and university students and faculty.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: 
 

9:00 a.m.: Registration and coffee 

9:15 a.m. Welcome and overview of day, David Hursh 

9:30 a.m.: Keynote address by Roy Rosenzweig 

10:30 : Break 

10:45: Democratic teaching, teaching democracy (Small group sessions): 
 

John Dewey, democracy and education (Robert Westbrook) 
Democracy and teaching about work (Doug Noble)  
Democratic schooling (Lin Lin, Severine Yagaza, Ellen Boesenberg) 
Teaching social justice 

12:00: Lunch 

12:30 p.m.: Democratic teaching, teaching democracy (Small group sessions): 
 

Democracy in the classroom (Aggie Seneway and her fourth grade students) 
Democracy and social studies education (Rich Gibson, Steve Fleury & Wayne Ross) 
The arts, social studies and democracy (Sonia James-Wilson) 
Democracy and high school social studies 

1:45 p.m.: Using media to teach social history (Rosenzweig) 

3:00 p.m.: Summing up and moving on, (Hursh and Rosenzweig) 

3:15 p.m.: Adjourn

CONFERENCE FEES: 

Keynote address only: Free 
Conference (including lunch and articles): $10.00 
    (without lunch): $5.00 

For more information contact: 
 

David Hursh 
WGSEHD, University of Rochester 
PO Box 270425 
Rochester, NY 14627-0425 

email:< dhrh@troi.cc.rochester.edu> 

To register for the conference contact: 

Michelle Erklenze 
Dewey Hall, WGSEHD 
University of Rochester 
Rochester, NY 14627 
716-275-0048 
email: <milesw@frontiernet.com>