Inaloosiak's Dilemma: Every Woman's Heritage

Inaloosiak's Dilemma: Every Woman's Heritag

Dominance and Affiliation: Paradigms in Conflict

Gender patterns in speech styles provide us with models of both the dominant confrontational style (male) and the affiliative nurturant style (female). In this paper, I argue that dominant confrontational styles are seriously problematic, in speech as well as in behaviour generally, whereas affiliative nurturant styles offer us a model which can be generalized without contradiction. I distinguish confrontation from competition and address briefly how our classrooms might be used to teach affiliative nurturant styles of talking and living

Dewey and Peirce on Curriculum and the Three R 's

This paper explores Dewey's identification of education and growth, examining his analysis of growth as social, moral, and intellectual. Implications of this analysis for the compulsory and hierarchical curriculum are drawn out.It is argued that Dewey's position contains several serious difficulties: his thesis identifying growth for its own sake as the end of education is particularly problematic. A Peircean perspective on these issues is presented and defended, followed by a brief defence of Dewey