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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Cynicism, Justice, and the Teaching Profession - Doug McManamanCynicism has become more widespread over the years. The causes of this encroaching cynicism among Catholic teachers in particular are complex and cannot easily be reduced to a single one. Read more... Don’t Know Much About Liturgy, Don’t Know Much Theology - Marian E. CroweAlmost every year since 1989, I have been teaching the Arts and Letters Core Course at the University of Notre Dame, an introduction to the liberal arts curriculum that is required of all undergraduates in the College of Arts and Letters. What I have discovered suggests something pretty surprising: Although 85 percent of Notre Dame undergraduates identify themselves as Catholics, very few of them either know much about or understand even the most basic Catholic teachings. Read more... Dorm Brothel - Vigen GuroianNineteen sixty-six, the year in which Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman was published, is also the year I entered as a first-yearman at the University of Virginia. We did not stoop to the State U level of referring to ourselves as freshmen, sophomores, and such — not at "The University." We were all men at U.Va. — "gentlemen," we were told. Read more... Drug Education - William KilpatrickLike so many other drug education programs, Quest is a feelings-based program operating on the dubious assumption that morality is a by-product of "feeling good about yourself." Critics of the feelings based therapeutic approach claim that while it may be useful in therapy, it has no place in drug education. Read more... E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy - Sol SternA content-rich pedagogy makes better citizens and smarter kids. Read more... Educate the Educators; Catechize the Catechists - Vancouver Synod Study Commission on Teaching the FaithEducating in the Jesuit Tradition - Robert Spitzer, S.J.Frequently our students come into the university domain thinking that all opinions are equally valid. This view has threatened the intellectual development of students since the time of Socrates because it allows students to think that incomplete, illogical, and nonsystematic thought is “good enough.” Unfortunately, it never is. Read more... Educating in Virtue - JAMES STENSONChildren growing up today are headed toward some formidable challenges. Read more... Education after the culture wars - Diane RavitchDiane Ravitch's blockbuster expose and best selling book, “The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn”, originated with this essay for the Summer 2002 issue of Dædalus. Read more... Education language: a lesson in confusion - Julie Smyth‘Edspeak’ baffles parents. One example, “Engage in the process of reflection” — translation: think. Jeffrey Mirel, education historian at the University of Michigan’s education faculty, says Edspeak is a language that, similar to the code among doctors or lawyers, is meant to be exclusive. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 20-Nov-2009 - 09:53:10
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