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The author draws upon his background in the economics of education along with his experiences as an administrator with responsibilities for teacher preparation programs to offer insights into contemporary and emerging issues for the field of teacher education.
The nature of life in the 21st century suggests that schools must prepare students to be thinkers, problemsolvers, collaborators, wise consumers of information, and confident producers of knowledge. The nature of 21st century student populations suggests that schools will have to become more responsive to the broadening array of cultures, languages, experiences, economics, and interests represented...
The literary critic, Edward Said (1935–2003), examined literature in light of social and cultural politics. He analyzed in his words the close connection between history and literature, and exile and history, a subject that occupied much of his life of the mind. Ironically, Said was totally silent about the force, the passion, the drive to write and invest texts with history in his approach to the...
Based on the perspectives of our symposium contributors, certain twenty-first century themes have become increasingly important in a global economy: 1) individuality; 2) connectedness; and 3) non-cognitive attributes. Individuals are asserting their influence in ways never seen before, thanks in part to technology and democracy. The innovators aren’t doing it alone ironically; they are collaborating,...
The text aims at exploring the pressing issue of how to approach the problematic relation between youth and the future. It examines two common public discourses on youth; then it lays the question in view of the crisis of contemporary representative democracies. Finally, it makes suggestions for using normative foresight techniques in the effort to address the difficulty of engaging the youth with...
With new international challenges facing the globe from the Ukraine to the Middle East to the South China Sea, two of the West’s most respected authors on international relations argue that the principles of Westphalia are still as relevant as ever. While the context may be different, and the roles of an ambivalent United States and Europe may be uncertain, the balance of power and the nation-state...
Growing ethnic and economic diversity exacerbates a longstanding tendency for members of a modern, liberal democracy to disassociate from each other. On the other hand, a wide range of organizations and communities actively bring together members across societal cleavages. The dynamic of inclusion is exemplified among communities that expect a high degree of obedience to a set of beliefs and practices,...
This article discusses how change in our economy after mid 20th century made the acquisition of social capital an important factor in school succes and future life functioning. Because traditional education was not using a relationship and development based approach, groups without adequate mainstream social capital were not faring well in school. The article describes how the Yale School Development...
Erich Fromm was a highly successful popular author and psychoanalyst who played an important role as a twentieth-century social activist and public intellectual. Friedman’s biography reveals Fromm’s fascinating “lives” as a psychoanalyst, social theorist, cosmopolitan activist, and “prophet” of love who significantly influenced American thought and politics.
Can the scale and diversity of American life be captured in American letters? This is the qustion that literary scholar Lawrence Buell seeks to answer through the classification of four ways of writing the Great American Novel.
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