Monthly Archives: April 2009

Loving my Neighbor: Respecting the Diversity of Viewpoints

9 Apr Filed under Doctorate Program, Education.

IN CONCLUSION This course, Education for Social and Cultural Change,  strengthened my conviction that reality is comprised of a wonderful diversity that amazingly provides a coherence to human experiences. The discussions especially affirmed my understanding that humans everywhere intuitively recognize that each person has inherent … Read More →

Human Love is first a Response

9 Apr Filed under Education.

One of the benefits of the postmodern era is that spirituality is being re-evaluated. We are recognizing that material alone, the skin, the bones, the cells, the synapses, the atoms, all of matter, fails to give an adequate explanation for relationships that add value to … Read More →

Love, but Not the Love of God

9 Apr Filed under Course Work.

Michael Lerner’s book, The Left Hand of God, has a great deal to say about worldviews. And his assessment of Modernism has much in common with my own. Lerner attributes Scientism as the root of our social ills.(130) Scientism, is granting naturalistic facts of “might … Read More →

Idolizing Democracy

9 Apr Filed under Education.

The philosopher Richard Rorty believes “the word ‘Postmodernism’ has been rendered virtually meaningless by being used to mean some many different things.” (262) But at a minimum, he understands it to signify “a perceived loss of unity.” Rorty’s use of the world “perception” is important. … Read More →

On Affluenza

9 Apr Filed under Education.

Affluenza is the negative consequences of over-consumption. Our society is one which is experiencing a sickness over our obsession with materials. I agree with the vast majority of what the authors of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic wrote. However, I wonder if they do not quite … Read More →

Worldview Dialog

9 Apr Filed under Education.

PREFACE In the Fall of 2008, I enrolled in Education for Social and Cultural Change (ELC 721), a graduate course in the UNCG Education Leadership and Cultural Foundations program.  The course was taught by H. Svi Shapiro.  The curriculum included reading and discussing the following … Read More →

David with Bathsheba and Solomon

Literary Merit of Biblical Narratives

6 Apr Filed under Education.

Tod Linafelt, associate professor of biblical literature at Georgetown University and a humanities professor in the English department at Loyola College in Baltimore, has a great piece in the Chronicle (of Higher Ed) Review about the literary merit of Biblical narratives.

Postmodernity and the future of Student Affairs

6 Apr Filed under Education.

Yesterday was the deadline to submit a proposal to the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) conference in November (in Pittsburgh, my hometown!). I barely made it. I offered to expand on a theme I discovered in my Foundations of Student Personal class last Fall.  We … Read More →

Principles of Charlotte Mason’s Educational Theory

1 Apr Filed under Education.

Through my undergraduate and graduate educational training, I have yet to have read about or met a classmate who has heard of the educational philosophy of Charlotte Mason. It is a shame. Children are born persons. They are made in the image of God. Authority … Read More →