Recently added articles from Journal of Thought:
Editor's introduction: questioning the questions.
Dec 22, 2006; ... Do you ever wonder why some scholars ask so many questions and others ask so few? Are some brighter, better educated, more reflective and inquisitive than others? Are some scholars simply more dogmatic and less well informed about epistemological issues? Do those who bypass a lot of ...
Freedom of speech, American public education, and standardized tests: a critical enquiry (1).
Dec 22, 2006; ... When you have [thus] formed the chain of ideas in the heads of your citizens, you will then be able to pride yourselves on guiding them and being their masters. The stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains, but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of ...
University speaker censorship in 1951 and today: new McCarthyism and community relations.
Dec 22, 2006; ... More than a half-century after the McCarthy era, allegations of witch-hunts, blacklists, and indoctrination have returned to academia. Politicians, student groups, and David Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights campaign have sought legislative control of university curricula and policy. (1) ...
Social studies methodology viewed as in a hermeneutic perspective.
Dec 22, 2006; ... Introduction Many argue that Social Studies has "gone wrong" (Leming, Ellington, & Porter-Magee, 2003) because student engagement with the subject often remains either nothing more than an encounter with the discipline of history or a nebulous, content-light, and morally shaky ...
Wright-ing White: the construction of race in women's 19th century didactic texts.(Julia McNair Wright)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2006; ... " ... until very recently, and regardless of the race of the author, the readers of virtually all of American fiction have been positioned as White. I am interested to know what that assumption has meant to the literary imagination."--Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the ...
An historical analysis of the United States Supreme Court and its adjudication of Gong Lum v. Rice (1927) and Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1 (1973).
Dec 22, 2006; ... The landmark case Brown v. Board of Education helped dismantle de jure segregation in the South and for a time the dream of creating racially integrated schools via mandatory busing became a reality. Now we find that segregation is making a come-back (Orfield, 2001). Currently, there are ...
Learning disabilities, schools, and neurological dysfunction.
Dec 22, 2006; ... The field of learning disabilities (LDs) appears to many to be in a state of flux. Perhaps the best evidence in support of this position is the current discussion about how best to identify students with LDa--a summary of which can be found in the proposed rules and regulations for the ...
The legacy of William James.
Dec 22, 2006; ... Introduction As nearly all of us know, William James (1842-1910) was a pioneer thinker whose life and work spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and whose thought has reached into the twenty-first century. Although the nineteenth century was greatly influenced by German ...
Is Socrates the ideal democratic citizen?(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2006; ... In extremis, radical reflection and civic reverence might indeed appear to be irreconcilable, yet the founder of all inquiry reconciled them precisely in his death: He was condemned to die because he refused to cease asking questions, and he was executed because he declined to flout his ...
For Novice and Informed Readers: A Review of Key Questions for Educators.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2006; ... For Novice and Informed Readers: A Review of Key Questions for Educators. Edited by William Hare and John Portelli Halifax, Nova Scotia: Edphil Books and San Francisco: Caddo Gap Press (1) In Key Questions for Educators Hare and Portelli have garnered forty essays from prominent ...
A Re-Thinking of Critical Pedagogy: A Review of Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy Today: Toward a New Critical Language in Education.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2006; ... A Re-Thinking of Critical Pedagogy: A Review of Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy Today: Toward a New Critical Language in Education Edited by Ilan Gur-Ze'ev Haifa, Israel: University of Haifa Press, 2005 As the wheels of change are moving in so many aspects of ...
Editors' introduction: does it really matter what we mean by the word or concept education?(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Within his editorial introduction written for this issue's authors--all of whom were participants in both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) Symposium and the 10th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Educational ...
Symposium introduction and history: the background.
Sep 22, 2006; ... The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of fifteen education departments nationwide selected to participate in the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID)--a five-year research and action project to examine the character of doctoral education, ...
The maddening road toward meaning: questioning the word-concept that is education.(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... To say the least, education is certainly a curious thing. On one hand it is a word with which seemingly everybody has great familiarity and facility; a word so mundane that it doesn't require much thought in its use; however it is also a word that, once spoken, provokes a variety of ...
Not to be taken lightly: education in moral and sacred terms.(Part I: Does Meaning Matter? Considering Dewey and Cremin)(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... The Moral Implications of "Doing" Education Clearly I "do" education: the word is on the diploma in my office; it is in the title of my Department; it is in the names of all the courses I teach; it is a word I think every day, and have for nearly two decades. However, there is ...
Rethinking aims in education.(Part I: Does Meaning Matter? Considering Dewey and Cremin)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Objectives, Goals, and Aims Talk in Education In her recent book Happiness and Education, Nel Noddings (2003) argues that one of the missing dimensions of contemporary educational discussion and policy making is talk about the broad purposes and aims of education. While we talk ...
The meaning of the concept of education: searching for the lost arc.
Sep 22, 2006; ... A Brief History into Definition and Meaning Since at least the times of Plato, there have been many attempts by educators, bureaucrats, ideologues and philosophers to define the concept of education. For example, early in the 20th century in North America there were attempts to ...
Meaning matters: education and the nihilism of the neocons.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Nihilist Maneuvering in Relation to Meaning His observations on the prevalence of nihilism and its consequences will surely stand as one of the most enduring legacies of Cornel West's still vibrant career as a public intellectual. West first began addressing nihilism as it ...
The gig is up: combatting the meanings of education proffered by science, technology, and global capitalism.(Part I: Does Meaning Matter? Considering Dewey and Cremin)(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... It's Too Late, or Is It? Colleagues in the academy seem to have a fascination with conceptual analysis and the term education. Debates are held, papers are written, and symposia take place within which definitions are articulated, modified, and offered again. Whether the point ...
Education: transmission and tranformation.(Part II: Unique Meanings of Education)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Preliminary Comments on Education and Meaning As with all institutions and human practices the meaning of education depends on the context and perspective. Education to some (Ravitch, 1993; Hirsch, 1987; Herrnstein, 1973) is mis-education to others (Banks et al., 2001; Delpit, ...