TEFS 20th Anniversary at SOPHE

The Educational Foundations Society (a SIG of SOPHE) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at this year's meeting at the Menger Hotel where the Society was founded 20 years ago. The first William E. Drake Lecture was given by Dr. Drake with a response from one of his former students, Dr. Jack Willers. A list is below of the Drake Lecturers in following years.

This year Martha May Tevis of The University of Texas-Pan American will give the 20th William E. Drake Lecture at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio at 10:00 AM on Thursday morning, September 28. The title of her lecture will be “George I. Sanchez: The Pioneer in Mexican American Rights.” Please plan your travel to include the William E. Drake Lecture. Member, friends, and interested persons are invited to attend. No registration fee is required to attend the lecture. The lecture is at the end of The Educational Foundations Society meeting and just before the beginning of the Society of Philosophy and History of Education meeting. The two professional organizations have met together for twenty years.

The Educational Foundations Society will host a reception in celebration of its 20th anniversary on Friday evening for all attending the TEFS/SOPHE meetings, their friends and spouses.

WILLIAM E. DRAKE LECTURES (In Order)

William E. Drake, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin. "The Authority of Law and the Freedom of the Individual." Response: “Freedom and Authority in the Educational Philosophy of William E. Drake,” by Jack Willers, Professor, Peabody College and Vanderbilt University.”

James E. McClellan, Jr., Professor, University of New York at Albany and Corpus Christi State University. "Our Historical Duty and How to Do It."

John Pulliam, Dean, University of Montana. "The Right Stuff for Education in The Twentieth Century: Futures Philosophy and Educational Reform.”

Jack Willers, Professor, Peabody College and Vanderbilt University. “Creative Thought in Human Relations: A Critical Overview of the Thought of William E. Drake.”

James W. Wagener, Professor, University of Texas-San Antonio. "Reframing Leadership:The Study of Educational Philosophy as Preparation for Administrative Practice."

William H. Fisher, Professor, University of Montana. “Was Bill Drake A Religious Person?”

James Van Patten, Professor, University of Arkansas. “Some Reflections on the Future of Society and Education.”

Mario Benitez, Professor, University of Texas at Austin. “The Origin of Prejudice in Children.”

Billy F. Cowart, Professor Emeritus, Western Oregon State College. “A Profession Out of Focus and the Realignment of Responsibility.”

Joe Green, Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University-Shreveport, and Visiting Professor, Texas Tech University, “Two Dogmas of Excellence: Dissonance in the Discourse on Education.”

Douglas J. Simpson, Dean, School of Education, Texas Christian university. “John Dewey’s Concept of the Dogmatic Thinker.”

Joan K. Smith, Dean, University of Oklahoma, “Gender, Professionalism and the Development of Teacher Education: A Postmodern Perspective."

Donna Younker, Professor Emeritus, University of Central Oklahoma, “The Transformation of Eleanor Roosevelt.”

David Snelgrove, "Copernican Revolutions in Philosophy: the Kant-Dewey Dialectic"

Charles Fazzaro. "American Public Education and the Tyranny of Modern Thought.

Karen McKellips, Cameron University. "Am I a Hedgehog or a Fox?"

Dalton Curtis, Southeast Missouri State University, “Against the Grain: Michael Oakeshott on the Idea of a Liberal Education.”

Sam F. Stack Jr., West Virginia University, "An Intellectual Journey for Community ."

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