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The Bull, the China Shop, and Forgiveness
Get PDFAlthough empirical data supporting the significance of servant-leadership abounds, in practice it is often an intangible art, a carefully executed dance of persuasion and stewardship, of empathy and healing, woven together with grace and humility. When the steps of this dance fall out of sync with the music of the community, alienation occurs, to the detriment of both the leader and the led
Building Community in Schools: Servant-Leadership, Restorative Justice, and Discipline Reform
Get PDFIn the United States, educational quality varies widely across school districts. For decades, many Americans have questioned education quality (Pulliam and Patten 2007; Urban and Wagoner 2009; Webb 2006). The twentieth century saw over thirty national reports and over 300 state and federal task forces look at how schools could improve (Giroux 2004). Despite these efforts, many remain dissatisfied with education in America (Strauss 2012)
Addressing Racial and Hate-Based Discrimination as Experienced by African Immigrants and Refugees in Waterloo Region, Canada
Get PDFSince the early 1990s, the demographics of Waterloo Region (Ontario, Canada) have changed dramatically. Early settlement patterns reflected “chain migrations” of Mennonite farm families moving to the region from Pennsylvania. Subsequent establishment of three urban clusters with German and British roots resulted in a predominantly White regional and Canadian population. A relaxation of Canadian immigration legislation, together with political unrest in many African countries, led to African immigrants and refugees choosing to settle in the Tri-Cities of Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge. Canada has an international reputation as a welcoming country that celebrates diversity. However, the public view that multiculturalism is entrenched within Canadian society is not reflected in the experiences of African newcomers. New immigrants and refugees continue to face considerable problems and barriers in adjusting to their new country of residence. They are forced to deal with various manifestations of racism, including race-based hatred, as recurring patterns in their daily lives. Using firsthand accounts gathered over the course of two projects, this article explores the problems that African immigrants and refugees face in adjusting to life in Waterloo Region. Community activists and leaders are working together with police, the legal system, social service agencies, and schools to combat racism and hate-based discrimination. The article provides information on new African communities emerging in a predominantly White region. It discusses the challenges and the initiatives being taken by African community leaders and residents working together with institutions including the police, schools, municipal councils, social service providers, and community agencies to address racism and hate-based discrimination. The article also presents the general conclusion drawn by African community member participants within the two projects discussed herein: that “hate” is a pervasive problem, especially as experienced by African immigrant and refugee populations in Canada, and that the Criminal Code of Canada §§ 318 and 319 fail to address due to the restrictive definition and prosecution of hate crimes. The participants’ call for a redefined legal concept of “hate” and an accompanying revision of the Criminal Code seems to align with the aims and insights of critical or radical multiculturalism. These include the need to acknowledge, address, and identify ongoing issues of racial hatred and discrimination, in their multiple manifestations and as continuing structural problems within Canadian society
Baptizing Nazism: An Analysis of the Religious Roots of American Neo-Nazism
Get PDFThe years following the Second World War saw American religious leaders making fervent attempts to bridge the denominational gap and encourage peaceful cooperation among America’s three leading faiths: Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism. While the religious revival movement was largely successful, it was not as complete as historians have previously suggested. Scholars of the postwar religious awakening have neglected the darker, conflictual, and even violent strains of religious revival which developed alongside the optimistic, cooperative, and harmonious efforts that have taken center stage. Simply put, the development and propagation of Christian Identity, as propelled by Dr. Wesley Albert Swift, provided a ready-made system of values and organizational tenets to the various white power and neo-Nazi organizations that emerged across America after World War II ended. This article seeks to bring scholarly attention to this national movement that emerged in direct opposition to the Judeo-Christian tradition, and in so doing, highlight the evolution of the American Neo-Nazi movement as a theologically-based movement that is starkly different from and considerably more malleable than modern American Nazism (which is often referred to as neo-Nazism, albeit, incorrectly)
How Broadcast Journalists Use Twitter To Present The Message Of The State Of The Union: #Sotu
Get PDFWith the social media revolution and the sense of urgency people have, the way people receive their news has altered. Twitter is becoming a more popular platform to receive news because of its ability to spread news faster than any other medium. This study addresses the ability of broadcast journalists to spread their agenda using Twitter. This study is a content analysis and quantitative analysis of the Twitter accounts of broadcast journalists Greta Van Susteren and Chris Matthews during the 2014 State of the Union address. Using the Agenda Setting theory and the Two Step Flow model, this study found that not only do broadcast journalists have the ability to spread their agenda through Twitter, they are actually more popular on Twitter when they do so. The importance of presenting factual information as opposed to opinion lies in the idea that the public may not be able to tell the difference between the two
Me & Mississippi
Get PDFA middle-aged white woman who had not yet been served rose from her seat and came over to us. I\u27d like to stay here with you, she said, but my husband is waiting
Servant-Leadership: A Feminist Perspective
Get PDFAt the heart of this paper is the notion that servant-leadership has potential as a feminism-informed, care-oriented, and gender-integrative approach to organizational leadership. Although there is a significant body of literature on feminist and gender-based interpretations of leadership, the same is not true for servant-leadership. The main contributors to date include Crippen\u27s (2004) narrative inquiry of three women servant-leaders, Eicher-Catt\u27s (2005) feminist critique of servant-leadership, Oner\u27s (2009) and Barbuto and Gifford\u27s (2010) empirical studies of gender differences in servantleadership, and Ngunjiri\u27s (2010) phenomenological study of African women servant-leaders
Do Angry Birds Flock Together? The Effects of the Aggressive Personality Trait on the Development of Mutual Cooperation
Get PDFTwo studies investigated the relationship between aggression and Social Value Orientation (SVO), a trait like predisposition to maximize Cooperative, Individualistic or Competitive goals. In Study 1, which was correlational, participants’ aggression was measured via questionnaire and SVO by a series of decisions in which points are allocated to self and an anonymous other. It was found that participants with a Cooperative SVO scored lower on aggression than those with either an Individualistic or Competitive SVO. In Study 2, using an experimental design, participants were randomly assigned to receive information that their partner was high in aggression, or low in aggression and a third group received no information. Study 2 showed the same relation between participant SVO and aggression found in Study 1. Contrary to predictions, there were no effects for the aggression of the partner. Together these studies provide support for a weak, but replicable relationship between participants’ aggression and their SVO. Future investigations may shed light on the nature of this relationship by testing personality and situational factors that may moderate the relation between SVO and aggressive personality
Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment
No full textIn his 1999 book, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, Shepard Krech III dissects the popular modern image of Native American as environmental prophet, living in special harmony with land, plants, and animals. The idea that Indians, as a whole, are somehow more closely concerned with or aware of ecological stability and sustainability, he writes, is a construct built from outsider perspectives and European perceptions of noble savagery. Yet, in the modern era, many Native American activists and leaders have indeed invoked a language of ecological conscience and consciousness, while encouraging Indian action toward environmental conservation. Despite Krech’s assertion that the stereotype, whether well-intended or not, is ultimately “dehumanizing” (1999, p. 26), it seems that the “Ecological Indian” is no longer merely a construct imposed from the outside, but rather an important rhetorical ethos/identity for Native Americans engaging in political discussions under a Euro-American hegemony