Recently added articles from The Educational Forum:
The lessons of Don Quixote as viewed from the classroom
Apr 01, 2001; Perrin, Paulette ... Don Quixote is not a man given to extravagance, but rather a diligent pilgrim breaking his journey before all the marks of similitude. He is the hero of the Same. He never manages to escape from the familiar plain stretching out on all sides of the Analogue, any more than he does from his own ...
Protecting teachers' privacy rights
Apr 01, 2001; Spencer, Ray C; Hoffman, Darlene Haffner ... Teachers often feel besieged with social interaction to the point that they crave a snippet of personal solitude. In describing this lack of physical privacy at school, Sadker and Sadker (1997, 5) noted, "There is so much involvement with others that sometimes, perhaps right in the middle of a ...
Temptation #4: Harmony versus productive conflict
Apr 01, 2001; Bowman, Richard F Jr ... All organizations, whether corporate, academic, social, or familial, depend on interpersonal relationships. Success is often measured through achieving consensus, but that effort may entail more conflict than harmony. HARMONY AND CONFLICT Lencioni (1998, 64) has contended that ...
War and conflict: Educators advocating for the protection of children
Apr 01, 2001; Byrnes, Deborah A ... Maputo, at 10 years of age, was forced to kill members of his own family in a civil conflict. He continues to suffer from severe depression. Jasmina lives in an orphanage because her mother, having witnessed war firsthand, is emotionally incapable of caring for her. Pham, separated from his ...
The Parable of the Old and the Young
Apr 01, 2001; Owen, Wilfred ... So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as they sojourned both of them together, Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father, Behold the preparations, fire and iron, But where the lamb, for this burnt-offering? Then Abram bound the youth with ...
Public schooling, the market metaphor, and parental choice
Apr 01, 2001; Robenstine, Clark ... Central to the school choice debate are assertions that public schools are both ineffective and inefficient, that they may be beyond salvation without sweeping institutionalized reform, and that the best educational policy for reform is school choice. On the surface, it appears quite reasonable ...
Religious influences in public education: Political and judicial developments
Apr 01, 2001; McCarthy, Martha M ... Few topics are more fundamentally political than church/state relations involving education. In the United States, devotional activities in public schools and governmental aid to religious schools have generated a steady stream of legislation testing the limits of the Establishment Clause of the ...
Increasing the numbers of teachers of color in K-12 public schools
Apr 01, 2001; Branch, Andre J ... Recently, I attended a college of education graduation ceremony at a large university in the Pacific Northwest. Lined up facing the audience in front of the podium were all of those who had earned the Masters Degree in Teaching. As the audience watched, these 50 students stood in line to receive ...
Lessons from linking community education and social-work philosophies and practices
Apr 01, 2001; Ward, Carolyn M Siemens ... During a three-year process of researching and participating in a community education program operating in the inner-city neighborhood of Hyde Park, St. Louis, I became aware of the interrelatedness and mutual concerns of social work and community education philosophies and practices. "Community ...
Finding universal values in a time of relativism
Apr 01, 2001; Dobrin, Arthur ... Each week in my university class in moral development, I present students with real-life moral issues. During the final week of a recent class, we talked about sports and ethics. Several in the class were athletes. I asked them if there was anything their coach would ask them to do that they ...
Sex, school, and society
Apr 01, 2001; Shuman, R Baird ... Sexual Ideology and Schooling: Toward Democratic Sexuality Education by Alexander McKay. 1999. Albany: State University of New York Press. 224 pages. ISBN 0-7914-4524-0. For decades, the role of public schools in teaching students about sex has presented a prickly problem for school ...
Welcoming the lost students
Apr 01, 2001; Love, Fannye E ... Reclaiming Our Prodigal Sons and Daughters: A Practical Approach for Connecting with Youth in Conflict by Scott Larson and Larry Brendtro. Bloomington, Ind.: National Educational Service, 2000. 222 pages. ISBN 1-879639-69-6. Scott Larson and Larry Brendtro bring an unusual depth and ...
Helping every child succeed
Apr 01, 2001; Wenner, George ... One Million Children: Success for All by Robert E. Slavin and Nancy A. Madden. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press. C 2001. 351 pages. ISBN 0-8039-6802-7 (cloth); ISBN 0-8039-680-5 (paper). Why should some children-usually European American and wealthier-succeed in school while ...
