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 →
Category Archives: Education
Human Love is first a Response
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
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
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
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 →
Literary Merit of Biblical Narratives
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
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
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 →
In Memoriam Dr. Franz
I met Dr. Harold Franz and his wife Wilma at our church, New Covenant Presbyterian, Aiken SC. He was an elder, and well into his seventies. I was a young, troubled man, not quite twenty. They loved traditional hymns; she was the organist. I was … Read More →
Incorporating Worldview into Science Education: A Teachable Moment
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 →