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Oedipus Redeemed (Hardcover)
Kalman J. Kaplan; Foreword by Matthew B. Schwartz
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Former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker claims that
secondary education has become a five-year programme with a single,
narrow aim: to prepare pupils for high-stakes GCSE exams at 16.
From 2015, all young people will be legally required to stay in
education or training until they are 18. Kenneth Baker sees this as
a historic opportunity to re-think the aims and structure of
English education. He argues that the National Curriculum should
extend only to the age of 14 and that there should be four distinct
pathways from 14-18 to take account of young people's emerging
interests talents and ambitions: Liberal Arts; Technical; Sports
and Creative Arts; and Career. All pathways will provide a broad
education, but each will have a distinctive character matched to
the talents and ambitions of individual students. In 14-18 - A New
Vision for Secondary Education, Kenneth Baker builds a compelling
case for reform, with contributions from a range of educationalists
who draw on the history of English education, practice elsewhere in
the world, and their experiences. An essential read for anyone
interested in the future of secondary education.
Asia's 'Memory Problem' is unique. Chinese, Japanese and Koreans
assign great significance to their national pasts; disagreements
about one another's history and commemorative practices are heated
and affect diplomatic and economic relationships. Honour and shame
societies teach their members to think about the past differently
than do societies of dignity and guilt. In Northeast Asia, the
events judged most negative reveal weakness or incompetence, and
they induce shame. For this reason, the Western 'politics of
regret', which include practices based on violations of dignity and
a sense of collective guilt, cannot be directly generalized to
Northeast Asian cultures. These cultures are, thus, privileged
sites for the study of memory. In no other regional setting is the
interdependence of history, commemoration and belief so significant
and problematic. In no other setting is the Memory Problem so
acute.
Five in-depth case studies reveal the innovative practices that
position U.S. community colleges as pathways to quality
employment.   In America’s Hidden Economic
Engines, editors Robert B. Schwartz and Rachel Lipson spotlight
community and technical colleges as institutions uniquely equipped
to foster more equitable economic growth across America’s
regions. As Schwartz and Lipson show, these colleges are the
best-placed institutions to reverse the decades-long rise in US
economic inequality by race, class, and geography.Â
  In the book, Harvard Project on Workforce
researchers introduce detailed case studies of five
institutions—Lorain County Community College in Ohio, Mississippi
Gulf Coast Community College, Northern Virginia Community College,
Pima Community College in Arizona, and San Jacinto Community
College in Texas—that show what is possible when governments,
employers, and communities invest in their community colleges’
economic and workforce development mission. Â Â These
case studies reveal key institutional policies and practices,
leadership behaviors, and organizational structures of successful
collaborations between colleges and their regional partners in the
public and private sector. Each case underscores how, although
community colleges face distinct challenges based on local context,
successful schools demonstrate a consistent focus on economic
mobility and good jobs across all their programs and activities. In
a concluding chapter, the editors champion community colleges as
the most critical institutions for the future of US workforce
development policy.Â
Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the
Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the
modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of
peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants,
microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and as far
away as Asia. It examines first the arrival of Native American to
the region and the environmental transformations that followed. It
then turns to the even more dramatic changes that accompanied the
arrival of Europeans and Africans in the fifteenth century.
Throughout it argues that the constant arrival, dispersal, and
mingling of new plants and animals gave rise to a creole ecology.
Particular attention is given to the emergence of Black slavery,
sugarcane, and the plantation system, an unholy trinity that
thoroughly transformed the region's demographic and physical
landscapes and made the Caribbean a vital site in the creation of
the modern western world. Increased attention to issues concerning
natural resources, conservation, epidemiology, and climate have now
made the environment and ecology of the Caribbean a central
historical concern. Sea and Land is an effort to integrate that
research in a new general environmental history of the region.
Intended for scholars and students alike, it aims to foster both a
fuller appreciation of the extent to which environmental factors
shaped historical developments in the Caribbean, and the extent to
which human actions have transformed the biophysical environment of
the region over time. The combined work of eminent authors of
environment and Latin American and Caribbean history, Sea and Land
offers a unique approach to a region characterized by Edenic nature
and paradisiacal qualities, as well as dangers, diseases, and
disasters.
The Institute for Amorphous Studies was founded in 1982 as the
international center for the investigation of amorphous mate rials.
It has since played an important role in promoting the und er
standing of disordered matter in general. An Institute lecture
series on "Fundamentals of Amorphous Materials and Devices" was
held during 1982-83 with distinguished speakers from universities
and industry. These events were free and open to the public, and
were attended by many representatives of the scientific community.
The lectures themselves were highly successful inasmuch as they
provided not only formal instruction but also an opportunity for
vigorous and stimulating debate. That last element could not be
captured within the pages of a book I but the lectures concentrated
on the latest advances in the field I which is why their essential
contents are he re reproduced in collective form. Together they
constitute an interdisciplinary status report of the field. The
speakers brought many different viewpoints and a variety of back
ground experiences io bear on the problems involved I but though
language and conventions vary I the essential unity of the concerns
is very clear I as indeed are the ultimate benefits of the
many-sided approach."
Originally compiled and published in 1979, this volume contains six
plays of Arthur Murphy: The Apprentice; The Upholsterer; The Old
Maid; The Citizen; No One's Enemy but His Own; Three Weeks After
Marriage.
A wonderfully engaging and accessible book, Who Cares? emphasizes
finding humane responses to developmentally and physically disabled
individuals that are community driven rather than solely reliant on
problem-solution oriented social service organizations. David
Schwartz examines the roles of both informal communities and
sectarian communities for
Originally compiled and published in 1979, this volume contains six
plays of Arthur Murphy: The Apprentice; The Upholsterer; The Old
Maid; The Citizen; No One's Enemy but His Own; Three Weeks After
Marriage.
The twenty million students now pursuing higher education in
America are paying more than history, culture and the consumer
price index can possibly justify, while the product they are
purchasing is one that has become systematically debased. General
education has been depreciated, core curricula eroded, expectations
(at all levels) reduced. Slightly above half of the
currently-enrolled students are graduating and only half of those
are finding employment commensurate with what was once understood
to be an authentic college education. Many are saddled with
crippling debt, a particularly cruel reality for those who are
unemployed or underemployed and unable to remove their debts via
bankruptcy. Commentators now refer to the college campus as a
country club or a daycare facility, one that is populated by a host
of counselors, tutors and hand-holders who serve an often
unprepared or underprepared student body. Remedial courses are
commonplace, even with the systematic reduction of expectations.
Among competing nations, international tests place our 15 year-olds
no higher than 19th in three critical categories. Many now speak of
"K-16 education" as our colleges replicate the atmosphere and
behaviors of our grammar and high schools. How did we reach this
point? How did the erosion of faculty and curricular authority
occur within our institutions of higher learning? What roles were
played by the radical students of the 1960s? How did our colleges
of education contribute to the problem? How did corporatist
administrators replace academic leaders and leverage ideologies to
extend bureaucracy, attract and secure tuition dollars at any
intellectual cost and create self-serving career paths for
individuals running across the cracking ice of ineptitude and a
lack of personal commitment? Most important, how can we reverse
this process, recapture the relevant strengths of past practices,
escape the gray vocationalism we now encounter at every turn and
return to principles and standards that can legitimately be termed
authentic? How can we save the previously-marginalized students who
suffer the most within the current system? These are the questions
posed by this book.
We live in an age when it is not uncommon for politicians to invoke
religious doctrine to explain their beliefs and positions on
everything from domestic to foreign policy. And yet, many of us
would be hard pressed to pinpoint the exact source of these
political beliefs in the religious texts that are said to have
spawned them. In Politics in the Hebrew Bible: God, Man, and
Government, Kalman J. Kaplan and Matthew B. Schwartz offer a
genre-straddling examination of the political themes in the Jewish
Bible. By studying the political implications of 42 biblical
stories (organized into the categories Social Order, Government and
Leadership, Domestic Relations, Societal Relations, Morale and
Mission, and Foreign Policy), the authors seek to discern a
cohesive political viewpoint embodied by the Jewish Bible.
Throughout the text, the views put forth in the Jewish Bible are
compared to those put forth by Greco-Roman philosophers in order to
argue that the Bible offers a worldview that fosters a "high degree
of creative individualism within a supportive non-chaotic and
well-functioning society". Kaplan and Schwartz are generous with
their explanations of Greco-Roman philosophical concepts in the
introductory chapters and with giving background information about
the biblical stories engaged in the text.
This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of
history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element
in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it.
Ancient Greek society displays in its literature and the lives of
its people an obsessive interest in suicide and death. Kaplan and
Schwartz have explored the psychodynamic roots of this problem--in
particular, the tragic confusion of the Greek heroic impulse and
its commitment to unsatisfactory choices that are destructively
rigid and harsh. The ancient Hebraic writings speak little of
suicide and approach reality and freedom in vastly different terms:
God is an involved parent, caring for his children. Therefore,
heroism, in the Greek sense, is not needed nor is the individual
compelled to choose between impossible alternatives.
In each of the first three sections, the authors discuss the
issues of suicide from a comparative framework, whether in thought
or myth, then the suicide-inducing effects of the Graeco-Roman
world, and finally, the suicide-preventing effects of the Hebrew
world. The final section draws on this material to present a
suicide prevention therapy. Historical in scope, the book offers a
new psychological model linking culture to the suicidal personality
and suggests an antidote, especially with regard to the treatment
of the suicidal individual.
Theories of human development characteristically include a series
of stages through which individuals are expected to pass if they
are to achieve wholeness and happiness. Whether explicitly or not,
such theories privilege "normalcy." Heroes, on the other hand, are
commonly wounded individuals whose developmental "disabilities" are
ultimately the source of their personal success and heroism. The
Wounds that Heal examines developmental theory in the light of the
heroic narrative and argues that such theory should be adjusted to
accommodate the experience of those who are, in many ways, our
principal role models. Four individuals are examined in depth: Jane
Austen, T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, and George S. Patton,
Jr. The study draws on the experience of a host of other
individuals, both historic and fictional, and includes materials
designed to aid readers in defining their own views of the heroic
as well as to become heroes or heroines in their own lives.
Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B. Schwartz's military
experiences, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame
and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin. In
1959, Vietnam was little more than a word on a map; within ten
years, Americans saw the Tet Offensive and their campuses in
flames. Schwartz was at the ground zeroes of that time, teaching at
the United States Military Academy from 1967-69 and then going to
the University of Wisconsin, Madison, just after the Dow riots and
before the bombing of Sterling Hall. The central portion of the
book focuses upon Schwartz's experience at West Point, its cadets,
officer corps and system of education. A sequel to his
award-winning memoir, The Biggest City in America, Accidental
Soldier reflects upon his military and academic experience through
the perspective of an over forty-year teaching career, twenty-nine
of which were spent as a dean at Wisconsin, Georgetown and the
University of Missouri, Columbia.
In The Seven Habits of the Good Life, the authors highlight seven
biblical gifts_self-esteem, wisdom, righteousness, love, healthy
appetite, prudence, and purpose_and present each one as an
alternative to one of the seven deadly sins. Each gift gives
readers a chance to enrich their lives by integrating concern for
themselves with a healthy concern for others rather than punishing
themselves for bad behavior. Incorporating clinical case studies,
the voices of real people, and biblical stories, this book shows
how the wisdom of the scriptures can provide us concrete ways of
redefining difficult situations and approaching life in a way that
strives for fullness, harmony, and balance.
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