Recently added articles from Journal of Thought:
Editor's introduction: questioning the questions.
Dec 22, 2006; Simpson, Douglas J. ... 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; Fazzaro, Charles J. ... 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; Moyer, Diana ... 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; Berci, Margaret E. ... 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; Bailey, Lucy E. ... " ... 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; Casas, Matha ... 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; Neufeld, Paul ... 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; Ivie, Stanley D. ... 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; Simpson, Timothy L. ... 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; Fives, Helenrose ... 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; Ya'akovy, Tova ... 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 ...