Category Archives: Education

The relationships involving and practices of educational institutions: schools and universities.

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“On Teaching”

2 Jun Filed under Education.

It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull school is. The learning by memory all the basic things one must know is the most incredible and unending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to … Read More →

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City Journal on Freire

15 May Filed under Education.

Sol Stern at City Journal fingers Paulo Freire as the source of much of what ails today’s teacher education: Pedagogy of the Oppressor. Is education neutral?   Christian educators agree with Freire and say no, however, they reject the notion that all teacher-directed education is indoctrination, … Read More →

Bauman on the Moral Encounter

27 Apr Filed under Doctorate Program, Education.

Zygmunt Bauman’s collection of essays, Life in Fragments, is a description of the fragmentary nature of postmodern life.  The fragmentation of the postmodern life manifests itself in two different ways of Being, each a encounter with the Other in which Ethics takes precedence over the … Read More →

Incorporating Worldview into Science Education: A Teachable Moment

27 Apr Filed under Education.

Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Commentary argues for the incorporation of Worldview into Science Education: Considering science in light of alternative worldviews also often leads to a more thorough analysis of that science and those worldviews — and so, inevitably, people learn the science … Read More →

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 →

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 →

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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.