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Featured Piece: Ukraine is Suffering
Get PDFThis year’s featured piece was written by William D. Bowman, a professor in the History and International & Global Studies Departments. Prof. Bowman’s research focuses on modern European history, with an interest in German/Austrian history and cultural in particular
Learning By Doing: The Archaeology Education Program for Middle School
Get PDFApproached through the disciplinary and theoretical frameworks of public archaeology, the Archaeology Education Program for Middle School was created to better understand how an archaeology education program might be integrated into an existing curriculum and become nationally applicable to middle school settings. Research was conducted at St. Teresa of Calcutta Catholic School, where seventh grade students, teachers, and administration were involved in the investigation of the program\u27s feasibility and design. It was determined that the objectives of this archaeology education program are to inform students about archaeology through educational tools and exercises that are tailored to different classroom settings, in addition to establishing an interest in the discipline. The students are immersed in a tactile learning experience that makes history come alive and the program demonstrates the ways in which archaeology seeks to create a continuum between past and present human timelines. Through hands-on experiences and a focus on critical thinking skills, the program enhances students’ orientation to the career options of historical studies and the importance of material culture. Through this pedological approach, the outcome of the week-long program lays the foundation for the public’s understanding of archaeology in an accurate and effective manner
State Capitalism’s Inability to Alter the Global Power Structure
Get PDFIn the modern day, many nations have instituted State Capitalist policies to grow their economies and increase their international influence. To evaluate the efficacy of this strategy, this paper analyzes the historical impacts of State Capitalism, as well as its effects upon economic concepts, including competition and innovation. This work also analyzes the ways in which State Capitalist policies have negatively impacted the international reputations of nations such as Russia and China and explores the specific national characteristics and circumstances that are required to truly alter the global power structure. Ultimately, the work concludes that state capitalism is unlikely to lead to large-scale changes in the international system, as it diminishes a nation’s reputation, provides no avenue for enhanced influence in international institutions, and is not impactful enough to open up the opportunity for global change
How Do You Vote? Breaking Down Party Identification by Racial Resentment
Get PDFRacial resentment has long existed in the United States, with the idea that Black people receive unfair advantages by exploiting their race thus negatively affecting White people. In a time in which politics is drastically polarized, a focus is put onto an individual\u27s political identity. The purpose of this research is to determine under what conditions does race influence vote choice by examining how racial bias influences political affiliation. Using data from the 2012 and 2016 National Election Study, the results revealed that ideological thoughts do have an impact on a person’s political party identity as individuals with a higher rate of racial resentment are more likely to support the Republican Party
Precarity, Dignity, and Well-Being
No full textOur modern economy is filled with precarious working conditions. From gig work to last minute scheduling, workers must navigate complex, uncertain, and inequitable workplaces. According to Dr. Ram Mahalingam, that precarity undermines dignity in the workplace and harms the well-being of workers. In order to restore dignity to the workplace, he argues, we must recognize, intervene, preserve, and cherish the very core of what makes us human
Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel
No full textSince time immemorial, Indigenous Dene Peoples have traveled ancestral routes throughout what is currently northern Canada and interior Alaska. Tłįchǫ Dene have continued to cultivate an identity as travelers throughout a history of ecological change and the settler ideology of Canadian colonialism. In this article, I aim to contribute to scholarship on Tłįchǫ travel and history by focusing on an additional dimension of movement: materiality. I have previously written about Tłįchǫ ecological ontologies relating to Indigenous conceptions of personhood in a more-than-human-world. In this article I apply my understanding of Tłįchǫ ontologies to the material dimensions of movement on the land, past and present, revealing an ontological, ecological, and spiritual continuity despite—although adapted in response to—settler-colonialism and climate change
The Anti-Bullying Myth: Bullying and Aggression in an Inhabited Institution
No full textUsing ethnographic data from two elementary schools, this chapter addresses the question of why, given the widespread focus of bullying and aggression researchers on social contexts, teachers and school staff members would continue to approach these problems from an individualistic standpoint, resulting in individualistic attempts at solutions. To answer this question, the author draws on inhabited institutionalism and school culture approaches to examine the interactive processes by which students and adults in these schools dealt with the cultural myth of bullying, contributing to school cultures in which aggressive behaviors were normalized and individualistic definitions of bullying were preferred. These processes allowed both students and adults to define their own behaviors in more favorable ways, with aggressive students defining themselves as non-bullies and adults claiming the effectiveness of their anti-bullying efforts
On Campus and Online: Evaluating Student Engagement in the Covid-19 Era
No full textThis chapter discusses how student engagement in my classes changed in spring 2020 semester as a result of transitioning to remote learning in three undergraduate courses when the pandemic struck. As an experienced teacher at a liberal arts college, I drew on my past online work to engage some of the best practices during this important period, and both direct and indirect assessment results from my classes suggest that online platforms helped to improve or sustain learning process in the short term. While students prefer to learn in-person, they reported positively on some aspects of their virtual experience. Although the nature of the transition limits our ability to generalize these findings, the pandemic has given us a chance to think about our courses in a way that we have never done before. More specifically, it has presented an opportunity to ask whether traditional approaches are optimal choices for a given student-learning outcome and what are some of the complexities and potential side effects of online learning
Reclaiming the Wicked Son: Finding Judaism in Secular Jewish Philosophers
No full textReclaiming the Wicked Son: Finding Judaism in Secular Jewish Philosophers takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers—Karl Marx, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ayn Rand, Peter Singer, Noam Chomsky, and Judith Butler—and views them through a wide range of Jewish lenses from the Talmudic tradition and prophetic Judaism to Kabbalist approaches, thereby understanding the 20th-century secular thinkers as on-going elements of a living Jewish intellectual tradition.
Jewish Studies as a field focuses on Judaism, but Jewishness is broader than Judaism, and as a result, a number of thinkers who come from Jewish backgrounds are excluded from the discourse in Jewish Studies. The goal of this volume is to act as a bridge between the religious and secular Jewish discourse communities, allowing a more inclusive and more comprehensive account of Jewish thought.
While the philosophers who discussed may not have considered themselves to be Jewish philosophers. But, by reading them Judaically, they can be understood in terms of a more robust historical and intellectual context in which they partake of a tradition to which they are not often connected.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1182/thumbnail.jp
The Faculty Notebook, September 2022
Get PDFThe Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost