GC&SU

Opening Plenary Session

A Chicken in Every Pot or a Piano in Every Parlor: A Fresh Look at the Authentic American Dream by Greg Pepetone

I. Civic Virtue and Traditional Assumptions

Cultivating Pity, Educating Pity by Gonzalo J. Sánchez

II. Cultivating Humanity within the Democratic Community: Teaching Difference and Change

Revisioning Plato's Myth of the Cave: A Postmodern Reading by Ana Victoria (Viki) Soady

III. Narrative Dialogs and Virtue

Stories and Character: Reading as the Performance of Virtue by William Monroe

Applying Dialogic Ethics and Learning for Affirming Character by Stephen L. Payne and Jerry M. Calton

Native American Kitsch: Ethical Aesthetics and Mass Culture by Tina Yarborough

IV. The Role of Performance and Theatre in Presenting Social Issues: A Round Table Discussion

Advocacy in Theater: The Efficacy-Entertainment Braid by Scott Dillard

Performing Humanity by Amy Burt

V. The Role of Religion in Character Education

The Ten Commandments in Moral Perspective by Jeffery Paull Cave

Habitus and the Cultivation of Virtue: Musings on Aristotle, the Western Monastic Tradition and their Critics by Deborah L. Vess

VI. Literature, Humanity, and Learning

Cultivating the Humanistic Study of Criminal Justice by Steven T. Engel

Humanity, Democracy and Imagination by Sam Stack

VII. Caring, Community, and Responsibility

Toward a Pedagogy of Engagement and Response-ability by Roseanne Hoefel

Caring: The Cyclical Model by Mark Seals

VIII. Transformative Learning

Using a Backdrop of Emancipatory Learning in Science Education Courses: Lessons from Undergraduates and Graduates by Karynne L. M. Kleine

Perfect Lore Casts Out Fear: Katherine Anne Porter's "The Fig Tree" by Joy A. Farmer

Discovering a Voice: Freshman Composition and the Memoir by Susan S. Lester