Series Archives: Citizenship Education

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Globalization and Identity Sacrifice

25 Mar Filed under Course Work.

How are we to assuage those who react violently to the perception that the core of their identity is at risk?

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 →

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 →