Edmund Burke University: The Quest for Community
Introduction Higher education institutions need to house their students and provide shelter for them while enrolled in school. This is known as residential life. Residential life is…
Introduction Higher education institutions need to house their students and provide shelter for them while enrolled in school. This is known as residential life. Residential life is…
This short, informal bit of writing is inspired by a former high school student of mine who has, for the last number of years, devoted her working…
Stating the Problem Academic research in the field of assessment is replete with thoughtful analysis designed to offer us a multitude of ways to improve both our…
The Trend towards Marginalizing Philosophy “Philosophy of Education” or “Education Foundations” is not regularly offered as a core course in most B. Ed. Programs today. The eradication…
I What I offer in these pages is not an “introduction to the reading of Voegelin” à la Alexandre Kojève with Hegel. Nor am I undertaking a…
In the preface to The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet explained the theme of his work: “I have chosen to deal with the political cause of the…
The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career. Jeffrey L. Buller. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. When one enters academia as a professor, what…
The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era. Martin J. Finkelstein, Valerie Martin Conley, Jack H. Schuster. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2016. …
A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present. Rens Bod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. A New…
Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom: A Practical Guide for Education Philosophy Courses. Sean Steel. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. Teacher Education and the Pursuit…
My first encounter with Nietzsche I cannot recall. The story I like to tell myself, or at least would like to tell you, is that it happened…
Anyone who has set foot and paid some small amount of attention in a college classroom knows one thing: the true moments of learning are often indefinable,…
For I saw it was impossible to do anything without friends and loyal followers; and to find such men ready to hand would be a piece of…
Perhaps the definition for freedom most commonly held in the West is some variation of the liberal ideal: “the ability to do what you want, so long…
Thank-you Professor Cheng, the Lingnan University Office of Global Education, and the sponsors of this conference for inviting me to join you at this crucially important conference…