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Looking Back and Looking Forward
Get PDFMany of us began our study of educational administration seeking to reflect an objective reality to support equity, as such we sought to examine leadership and decision-making processes that were “neutral and objective.” Critiquing the objectivist reality, Greenfield (1986) described this ensconced approach to educational administration as a process “…whose experts claim that an objective view of the social, world enables them to conduct value-free inquiry. They claim to possess knowledge that enables them to control organizations and to improve them” (p. 47). Outlining what he believed to be the fallacy of neutral objectivity within educational administration he further argued that “…such large claims appear increasingly unsound, for the science that justifies them rests on methods and assumptions that dismiss the central realities of administration as irrelevant. Those realities are values in human action. If administrative science deals with them at all, it does so only in a weakened or spuriously objective form” (p. 47). This ontological approach was supported by the epistemological view of an “objective truth” wherein we are free from “… the anxiety of decision making and remove the administrator’s sense of responsibility for his decisions” (p. 57)
F.W.J. Schelling - On the Relationship of the Plastic Arts to Nature
No full textThis is Schelling’s most notable public address. Its length and difficulty prompt one to wonder how many of his audience were able to follow it, but it remains a seminal text to read and study, one that brings together in dynamic co-illumination two of the great strands of Schelling’s early thought: his Naturphilosophie and Kunstphilosophie. Along with the turn to art in the 1800 System of Transcendental Idealism and the Würzburg lectures on the Philosophy of Art, it is Schelling’s most important and memorable philosophical reflections on art. It is his most concise and unabashed defense of the genetic dynamism of art and its indispensability for human life. Although Schelling’s call for a “revival” of a “thoroughly” and “peculiarly German art” went largely unheeded in Munich until perhaps Der Blaue Reiter collective in the early Twentieth Century, this address’s provocative analysis of the “spiritual in art,” was not only taken up, however indirectly, by Kandinsky in his book (Über das Geistige in der Kunst), but it remains current and worthy of engagement
Gedanken über die Religion: Der “stille” Krieg zwischen Schelling und Schleiermacher (1799–1807), by Ryan Scheerlinck, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K., 2020
No full textThe title of Scheerlinck’s study on the relationship between two of the most important thinkers of Romanticism, the philosopher F.W.J. Schelling and the theologian F.D.E. Schleiermacher, undoubtedly alludes to the latter’s main work from 1799, the popular Speeches On Religion. This text, together with the 1807 dialogue, Christmas Eve Celebration, also written by Schleiermacher, defines the time frame of the investigation, which is understood as a visualization of a dialogue between two great minds, and not as an investigation into their mutual influences and dependencies.1 Another thesis mentioned here is that the “silent war”2 between these two thinkers, as Schleiermacher expressed it, extended over a much longer period of time, namely up to Schelling’s late philosophy.3 The main theme of the discussion, as Scheerlinck puts it, is revealed in the different attitudes of both thinkers to the relationship between theology and philosophy. While Schelling, from the point of view of his efforts towards a positive philosophy, advocates a scientific representation of Christianity, Schleiermacher strictly rejects a rational construction of religion. The presentation of this mutually stimulating exchange is predominantly based on “peripheral texts,”4 i.e. texts that are less well known as they were written anonymously or published by the literary estates of the authors in question. This makes the already complex editorial situation confusing in some cases. The presentation is further limited to Schelling’s perspective, whose following four works are laid out chronologically by Scheerlinck: the parodistic poem, Heinz Widerporst’s Epicurean Confession of Faith (1799), which also contains an early critical reaction to Schleiermacher’s Speeches; the Lectures on the Method of Academic Study (1803), to which Schleiermacher responded with a review; Schelling’s review, Christmas Eve Celebration (1807), which discusses Schleiermacher’s dialogue of the same title; the dialogue Clara or On nature’s connection to the Spirit World, subsequently analysed by Scheerlinck with the greatest attention
Beginnings with Philip McShane: A Progress-Oriented Tribute
Get PDFTerrance Quinn obtained his BSc in 1987, his MSc in 1988 and his PhD in 1992 (all in mathematics). During his early career, he published in pure and applied mathematics, as well as in mathematics pedagogy. He gradually broadened his focus, with the works of Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984) and Philip McShane (1932–2020) becoming significant influences. Quinn has publications in foundations of science and has been making inroads in economics
A Tribute to Phil McShane
Get PDFMeghan Allerton is a doctoral candidate in the Environmental and Life Sciences graduate program at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. She contributed to Seeding Global Collaboration (2016) and has published in the Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis. She holds an M.Env.Sc. and an Honours B.Sc. from the University of Toronto
Introduction and Project Background
Get PDFInitially, this special edition of The Morning Watch was developed to share the results of this research into four case studies within Inuit Nunangat. As such, the writing reflects a research project focused on four schools and communities in Northern Canada: Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories. The research in these four regions responds some gaps in current literature related to Inuit education. As time has moved on, additional writers and materials have been added to round out the journal discussion to better share a Pan-Arctic view of both teacher development for the North as well as Indigeneity within the Arctic region