FOSTERING A PROVINCIAL IDENTITY: TWO ERAS IN ALBERTA SCHOOLING

In this article, I analyse how schools in Alberta have defined the province’s identity and its role in Confederation. During two eras, the 1930s and the 1980s, social studies curriculum and teaching resources contained assertions of provincial uniqueness. In the late 1930s, the progressive curriculum implemented in Alberta’s schools represented the first time a strong provincial consciousness was evident. The resurgence of Western regionalism was reflected in reforms introduced in 1981. I note that schools have played a critical role in shaping a provincial, as well as national, identity. Key words: citizenship, curriculum history, history, regionalism Dans cet article, l’auteure analyse comment les écoles albertaines ont défini l’identité de la province et son rôle au sein de la Confédération. A deux époques, durant les années 1930 et les années 1980, les programmes de sciences humaines et les ressources pédagogiques complémentaires affirmaient le caractère unique de la province. En fait, on trouve dans le programme d’études novateur implanté à la fin des années 30 dans les écoles de l’Alberta le premier témoignage de l’affirmation d’une forte conscience provinciale. La résurgence du régionalisme de l’Ouest s’est reflétée dans des réformes annoncées en 1981. L’auteure note que les écoles jouent un rôle crucial dans la formation d’une identité à la fois provinciale et nationale. Mots clés : citoyenneté, histoire des programmes scolaires, histoire, régionalisme

The Figure of Socrates and its Significance for Liberal Education in Asia

Permission to archive final published version granted by EditorThis essay contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the value of liberal education in East Asia, and how well Western models of liberal education fit with East Asian cultures. It addresses the inadequacy of the two main arguments presented in these debates: 1) utility, whether liberal education provides critical thinking skills to help East Asian countries “catch up” to the West and 2) whether Western liberal education carries with it individualism that is incompatible with East Asian culture. In response to these arguments, this essay considers the figure of Socrates as a transpolitical figure, and a way of considering the place of liberal education in East Asia. Socratic freedom as the ideal of liberal education presents intractable challenges to all political regimes and cultures because it aims higher than their goals and aims. Therefore those interested in liberal education and those responsible for administering institutions where liberal education gets taught need to be attentive to the difference between Socratic freedom and the varying degrees of freedom their respective political societies permit.Ye

Civil religion and human rights in Canada

One of the reasons why religious pluralism flourishes to the degree it does in Canada and the United States is because, as immigrants, we have inherited a cultural attitude of healthy skepticism toward what politics can achieve. We have a cultural inheritance of recognizing that religious persecution is frequently the result of attempts by political rulers to establish political uniformity with dubious and overreaching civic ideals. Wehave a cultural inheritance of recognizing that human happiness is better achieved within religious communities, through education, than in larger political communities where those ideals are enforced with the sword. In short, we have a cultural inheritance of recognizing the limits of state power and laws to promote public morality, which sustains a public understanding of the limits of what politics can achieve in promoting human happiness and virtue.Sponsored by The Expert Council for the Ombudsman of the Russian Federation, of Sverdlovsk Region, the “Znanie” Society of Russia, and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University.N

Friendship: the horizon of our common life

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Why exclude Oedipus? On the incoherent statism of same sex marriage

Permission granted by Paul TunsWhen Canadian parliamentarians reconvene the same-sex marriage debate this fall, they may wish to ponder the enormity of changing a law whose simple change affects the basic functioning of society. The political battle to redefine marriage to include same-sex marriage (SSM) carries numerous implications about which no partisan can predict.N

Anhang zu den Beilagen des Diariums vom 2. Dezember 1793

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The charter and civil religion

Permission granted by John Young. "The edited book where the paper was first published lists copyright as belonging to Dr. von Heyking (author) and the editors of the book.""Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, along with the Supreme Court, is the focal point for an evocation of civil religion ... The manner in which important constitencies speak of the Charter ... reveals an attempt ... to create a civil religion based upon the language of rights found in the Charter that postulates Canada participates in the unfolding of a progressive history toward a more democratic and egalitarian future in which individuals are thought to be unencumberedby history, nature, religion, tradition, or community."N

Religious education and the Canadian regime: some considerations remarks prepared for roundtable on religious education

Respecting Religion in Public Education: International Experience and Current Russian Debates, March 31-April 1. Russian State Humanities University Moscow, RussiaCanadians struggle with 2 questions concerning education & political order. The meaning of secular & meaning of civic education. The civilizational question & its place in the particularities of the Canadian regimeSponsored by International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young UniversityN

From a wooded summit : learning to love through augustinian meditation in Ascona

Permission granted by Matthias Riedl.This paper focuses on the way ... Eranos scholars used Augustinian symbols to explicate the tensional relationship between time and eternity, finitude and infinity, creation and God, and human being and God that Eranos scholars have theorized about, and that thinkers have been grappling with since Plato characterized human existence as a cave and wondered how to convince philosophers to reenter it.N