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Home: Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Education: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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. Email This Article Educating in Virtue - JAMES STENSONChildren growing up today are headed toward some formidable challenges. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article Education reform - David WarrenI am luckier than most North Americans, having benefited at formative moments in my childhood from attending backward private schools. Email This Article Enough Already with Kid Gloves - Christina Hoff SommersPurple is replacing red as the color of choice for teachers. Why, you may ask? It seems that educators worry that emphatic red corrections on a homework assignment or test can be stressful, demeaning — even "frightening" for a young person. Email This Article Faculty Clubs and Church Pews - William J. StuntzThe past few months have seen a lot of talk about red and blue America, mostly by people on one side of the partisan divide who find the other side a mystery. It isn't a mystery to me, because I live on both sides. Email This Article Faith and Therapy - WILLIAM KILPATRICKThe therapeutic mode of understanding society and identity is now so integral to modern life that some psychologists predict it will eventually triumph over all other modes, that psychology is destined to provide the frame of reference by which all other beliefs and commitments will be judged. Email This Article Faith for the Next Generation - Donald DeMarco"If there is one thing you could tell your parents, what would that be?" This question was directed by a TV hostess to a teenage girl. The girl’s face gleamed at the chance of being a parent to her parents and being given permission to tell them exactly what they needed to be told. Email This Article Pages: [<<] ... 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 04-Jul-2008 - 17:02:45
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