Category Archives: Education

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

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 →

Dr. Harold Franz

In Memoriam Dr. Franz

21 Mar Filed under Education.

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 →

Neo-Tolerance

19 Mar Filed under Education. 1 Comment.

Too many Christians, not enough lions. — Richard G.    Mar 18, 08:55 PM

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Are you Religious?

24 Feb Filed under Education.

Religion on the decline or on the redefine?

Rorty on Education

30 Jan Filed under Education.

Richard Rorty’s Philosophy and Social Hope articulates his philosophical framework, his personal story and philosophical quest, and finally his vision of an educational system worthy of American Democracy. In the Introduction, Relativism: Finding and Making, Rorty seeks to call the reader out from the history … Read More →