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Southwest Sunrise
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Frieze Symmetry Patterns of Pennsylvania German Fraktur
Full text linkFraktur is an American folk art developed by German-speaking communities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina during the 18th and 19th centuries. This art form features ornate calligraphy combined with illustrations of flowers, birds, angels, and geometric border designs. It was often used for birth and baptismal certificates, religious texts, educational materials, and public notices. Fraktur commonly incorporates frieze pattern designs. Artistic designs based on frieze patterns appear across a wide range of cultures, and research has shown that cultural groups tend to favor certain types of frieze patterns. This paper investigates which types of frieze symmetries appear most frequently in a sample of print and hand-drawn fraktur works and compares these distributions to those found in other traditions
Black saturation: selected works of Stephen E. Henderson
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I\u27m in Charge of Celebrations
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2024 Mendham Group
No full textPeter Shea with other participants in the August 2024 IAPC Residential Summer Course in Philosophy for Children at St. Marguerite\u27s Retreat House in Mendham, New Jersey.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_pshea_gallery/1004/thumbnail.jp
Jackson, Thomas E. Interview May 2024
Full text linkIn this interview, Dr. Thomas E. Jackson talks about philosophical wonder he experienced as a child around the experience of suffering, and how that followed him into his university studies. He describes his undergraduate and masters studies in medicine, psychology, and philosophy at the University of Toledo, and his formative encounter with Professor Ramakrishna Puligandla, who introduced him to Hindu and Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practices. Jackson took his PhD in comparative Asian and Western philosophy at the University of Hawai’i, after which he co-founded the Hawaiian international film festival. After meeting Dr. Barry Curtis, who had introduced philosophy for children on Hawai’i’s “Big Island,” from the University of Hawai’i’s Hilo campus in 1978, Jackson attended the three-week summer seminar in philosophy for children in Mendham, New Jersey, run by the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC) at Montclair State College. There he met and was mentored by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp. Jackson brought “small-p” philosophy to schools in and around Honolulu as a faculty specialist in the philosophy department at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. He discovered commonalities between philosophy for children and Hawaiian culture and found ways to adapt the former to the latter. He created a unique philosophy in the schools program, “P4C Hawai’i,” which was funded by the Hawaiian Department of Education for many years. In the program, teachers facilitated philosophy sessions once each week on their own, and another time with a visiting philosopher or philosophy graduate student. Teachers also met together once a week for a “Philosophy for Teachers” session and received university credit. Jackson created a university course to prepare philosophy graduate students to work in the program and invented several innovations to the Montclair model, including “magic words” like IDUS (I don’t understand), the WRAITEC: The Good Thinker’s Toolkit, and a Philosophy in Schools Startup Kit. https://p4chawaii.org/wp-content/uploads/colvin.pdf”\u3e In 1995 Jackson conducted the first philosophy for children workshop in China. He mentored the first doctoral dissertations on philosophy for children to come from the University of Hawai’i’s philosophy department. In 2005 Jackson met Mr. Eiji Uehiro, founder of the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education in Tokyo, Japan, who offered support for P4C Hawai’i and in 2012 the Foundation gifted $1.25 million to fund https://p4chawaii.org/”\u3eThe University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_oral_histories/1008/thumbnail.jp
\u3cem\u3eI’m in Charge of Celebrations\u3c/em\u3e (1986) by Byrd Baylor
Full text linkThe young woman speaking to us from this beautiful book shows us a way of honoring and celebrating singular experiences we have in the natural world, and how doing this could enrich the meaning of our lives. She describes them in a notebook, marks their dates, and gives them names. Think of this as what ancient Greek philosophers called a “spiritual exercise”— something we do to strengthen our ability to pay attention, to heighten our sense of the beauty and dignity of the natural world, and to better understand our place in it. Of course, moments worth celebrating can happen in any natural setting, or in human spaces, and each of us should be in charge of our own celebrations. Some of us create works of art; some write stories or poems; some invent dances or songs. In any case, we should take this friend’s example of finding a way to give something back in appreciation.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_picturebooks/1040/thumbnail.jp