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 →
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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 →
Globalization and Identity Sacrifice
How are we to assuage those who react violently to the perception that the core of their identity is at risk?
Eagleton on Rorty
In an interesting article on Commonweal, Terry Eagleton has a wonderful summation of Richard Rorty’s view of Western Civilization: Rorty’s kind of argument allows you to acknowledge that Western civilization is indeed a “culture” in the sense of being local and contingent-even as you claim … Read More →