Guest Editor\u27s Foreword

Almost five years ago we at Educational Considerations had an issue largely devoted to the social and philosophical foundations of education

Mentoring Working and Novice ASL/English Interpreter

abstract: The purpose of the research conducted and presented in this thesis is to explore mentoring programs for ASL/English Interpreters, with a focus on the question "Is a Peer Mentoring Program a successful approach to mentoring working and novice interpreter?" The method of qualitative data collection was done via questionnaires and interviews with past participants of a Peer Mentoring Program and questionnaires to identified persons who have experience creating and running mentoring programs. The results of the data collection show that a Peer Mentoring Program is a successful approach to mentoring working and novice interpreters. This research provides valued information in regard to the experience of persons in a Peer Mentoring Program as well as successful aspects of such a mentoring approach.Dissertation/ThesisM.A. Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education 201

Florida’s Leaders Wrong About Liberal Arts

Once again, a prominent politician from Florida has provided an excellent opportunity to talk about the value of a liberal arts education. In 2011, Florida Gov. Rick Scott commented about not needing any more anthropology majors. Around the same time, Florida State Sen. Don Gaetz referred to psychology and political science majors as “degrees that don’t mean much.” [excerpt

Unwrapping the Comfort of Sameness With Spanish Immersion Elementary School

I watched my 6-year-old hover around the periphery of the table, unable to find somewhere to sit. The cafeteria was a cacophony of little voices, Spanish and English, tumbling over each other, her classmates sitting close and waiting to be dismissed to homeroom. I couldn’t help but notice how different Noelle looked from most of the children, with her liquid blond hair and saucerlike blue eyes. [excerpt

Funding the Arts and Humanities is Worth Fighting For

There’s an old story about Winston Churchill that is not true but is worth repeating. When approached about cutting funding for the arts so the money could go to the war effort during World War II, Churchill supposedly replied: “Then what are we fighting for?” As far as we can tell Churchill never actually said this, but you can be forgiven for being taken by the sentiment. This apocryphal quote still makes the rounds because it suggests that even in times of war art can help us realize what it is, exactly, that’s worth defending. [excerpt

MS-006: Papers of the Philomathaean and Phrenakosmian Societies

The bulk of the collection consists of the official record books of the two societies and their libraries. Constitutions, minute books, account books and library circulation records cover the period 1831-1924 (with gaps). There are several library catalogues, arranged both alphabetically and numerically. Also included are correspondence spanning the societies’ years of existence in the form of letters received and copies of letters sent, and evidence of society activities including event programs, debating topics, and copies of essays, poems and addresses delivered before the societies. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our websitehttp://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1005/thumbnail.jp

Ralph Barton Perry, the Moralist as Critic

Ralph Barton Perry took his undergraduate work at Princeton and his graduate work at Harvard, where he was awarded the doctorate in the field of philosophy in 1899. During the first decade of the present century, he gained recognition as a leader of the New Realism, perhaps the most significant product of which was his Ego-centric Predicament, published in the Journal of Philosophy in 1910. His most prominent publications were Present Philosophical Tendencies, 1912; General Theory of Value, 1926; The Thought and Character of William James, two volumes, 1935, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize; Puritanism and Democracy, 1944; and Realms of Value, 1954. Throughout his career he was concerned, as a philosopher and as a member of the faculty at Harvard, with the criticism and development of educational policy and practice. The author of this article, Professor Ira S. Steinberg, earned his doctorate from Harvard. He is a member of the faculty of Oberlin College and is primarily interested in the area of social and philosophical foundations of education

The Patriarchy’s Role in Gender Inequality in the Caribbean

While gender equality in the Caribbean is improving, with women’s growing social, economic, and political participation, literacy rates comparable to those in Europe, and greater female participation in higher education, deeply rooted inequalities are still present and are demonstrated in the types of jobs women are in and the limited number of women in decision-making positions. Sexism, racism, and classism are systemic inequalities being perpetuated in schools, through the types of education offered for individuals and the content in textbooks. Ironically, the patriarchy is coexisting within a system of matrifocal and matrilocal families, with a long tradition of female economic autonomy due to the Caribbean’s history with colonialism. This irony demonstrates the complexity and difficulty to change the dominant ideology and break the vicious cycles creating gender inequalities throughout many sectors of society in the Caribbean. [excerpt

Adam Smith and the Stages of Moral Development

The writer explores Adam Smith\u27s Theory of Moral Sentiments, where Smith presents a rich and provocative account of morality. The writer offers an explication of Smith\u27s moral psychology as a stage theory of moral development, with the intention of generating critical points on both mattes of detail and larger implications

Friends, Foes, and Nel Noddings on Liberal Education

The author analyzes the debate over liberal education, focusing on critic Nel Noddings, who advocates alternative education. The author cites Noddings\u27 article Conversation as Moral Education, where Noddings identifies traditional education as studying the canon of Great Books, and another article in which Noddings discusses the theory of curricula