Homeward Bound: The Current Rise of Homeschooling and the Need for Regulation

With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of American homeschoolers has drastically increased. While all fifty states have passed legislation allowing for homeschooling, regulations of homeschooling vary from state-to-state, with some states having virtually no regulation at all. In this essay, Mary Fletcher examines homeschooling laws and discusses the need for consistent federal regulation to ensure that homeschooled students receive an adequate education.https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lawjournalonline/1069/thumbnail.jp

Twentieth Century Organ Works as Pedagogical Devices: Using Select Compositions by Hermann Schroeder, Jean Langlais, and Daniel Pinkham as Teaching Tools for the Beginning Organ Student

Countless teaching methods, articles, and books have been written about organ pedagogy. But even with so many options from which to choose, a few of these have emerged as some of the most frequently used teaching materials for beginning organ students

Watchwords: The Names of Christ

Watchwords: The Names of Christ Almighty Babe Bread Bride Groom Branch Captain Consolation Christ Cornerstone Covert Counsellor Creditor Dew Desire of all the Nations Door Eternal Life Express Image of His Father Emmanuel Ensign Eagle Foundation Feeder Faithful Witness Fountain Flesh Friend of Sinners Gift Guide Glorious God Manifested in the Flesh Head Holy Child Husband Horn Highest Habitation Help Jesus Jah Judge King Leader Life Lion Ladder of Jacob Lovely Long Suffering Love Lamb Merciful Messenger Messiah Melchisedec Nazarene Ointment Prophet Purifier Propitiation Priest Passover Prince of Life Physician Rose of Sharon Rock Refuge Sun Shepherd Tree of Life Vine Christ the Wisdom of Go

Women survivors of childhood sexual abuse : narratives of relationships with their mothers

This study is a narrative inquiry of the daughter – mother relationship of survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Interviews were conducted and narratives of the co-researcher’s experiences written. Understanding the role of the daughter – mother relationship in the healing journey of women survivors was gained as the relationship was considered over time. This study makes a unique contribution to the field of narrative research in childhood sexual abuse as well as a valuable contribution to research in daughter – mother relationships. Two significant understandings have been gained through this work. First, the effects of child sexual abuse on the girl/woman were experienced as lasting and have demanded years of counselling and therapy to bring freedom to the psyche and autonomy to the woman. Second, and of particular note is the way childhood sexual abuse provoked a change of enormous magnitude to the daughter – mother relationship, irrevocably altering it. This study may enlighten issues of attachment, autonomy and independence within survivors of childhood sexual abuse. This study may have implications for the work of therapists and counsellors working with survivors