Background and Purpose: Anger is implicated in nearly every social pathology, from war to bullying to child abuse. Yet, it is also the spark of reform for nearly every positive social movement, from civil rights to labor rights to handicapped rights. This article examines how anger has been understood and misunderstood across different discursive…

This essay is a reflection on ideas explored within the symposium on "queeruptions," the spaces and places they point us toward, and the ways they reveal our world. My remarks are multi-layered. First, I revisit several of the queer of color epistemologies described in the articles. Second, I discuss spaces--that exist and are shaped or…

In this article we argue for the need to rethink the crisis of democracy both within and beyond education (Toft and Rüsselbaek Hansen, 2017). This crisis can be explained variously, depending on how it is understood and on what basis. From our point of view, and with inspiration from thinkers as Nietzsche, Arendt, Agamben and Rancière, we argue…

Civic studies in Israel and elsewhere are unlike any other school subject. This course of study has a higher purpose--to transform students into good citizens. In contrast to other core subjects, civics, in essence, strives to realize ethical goals. While other subjects perceive the instilling of values as a secondary outcome, in civics the…

Rather than using literary texts to evidence an analytic argument, within this piece we read Julia McNair Wright's (US, 1840-1902), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's (France, 1873-1954), and Willa Cather's (US, 1873-1947) texts through theoretical lenses that expose their educational meaning and value and that create conversation among them concerning…

Argues that the thought of Mahatma Gandhi, as revealed in his social activism, is relevant to social work ethics and a resource for its ethical enrichment. Proposes that principles such as seeking truth through service to others, individual self-development, nonviolent social action, and material simplicity could enhance the current National…

Asks organized viewers to support quality programs rather than to condemn objectionable programs. Deplores the lack of adolescent-oriented programs. Examines "The White Shadow," a program popular with adolescent viewers which also mirrors television's new humane collectivity, a concept explored in previous analysis. (See EJ 240 151.) (PD)

Gallaudet University's newly appointed president who deferred to student demands for a deaf executive views that moment in history as unique and revolutionary, marking the students' emerging need to be recognized as able and powerful, while regretting the damage done to academic freedom and integrity. (MSE)