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Reverential language in American education: why we started calling teachers heroes and how language is at the root of broken school systems
Get PDFWith teachers leaving the profession in greater numbers over the last ten years, many organizations have turned to assess the reasons behind the growing national teacher shortage. My thesis examines how specific language with origins in Christianity, mythology, and folklore, used to describe teachers in educational and political spaces, as well as public media, is deeply detrimental to progressive initiatives in public school systems across the United States. Through an examination of the history of our modern public school system in the United States, I argue that the use of this language, which I will call reverential language throughout this paper, was intentional, creating a willing public teaching workforce that was white, Christian, underpaid, and female, in order to assimilate or erase growing immigrant and Native American communities in the United States. Few realize the problematic origins of the language that has become so commonplace in education, or connect this language to an overwhelmingly white and female teacher workforce and expectations of student conduct. Reverential language, still prevalent today, sculpts an identity out of what should be a profession, normalizing low pay in education, causing high teacher turnover, higher rates of teacher burnout, and harming student growth and development as a result. In the last portion of my paper, I propose various ways to combat the effects of reverential language within the framework of our existing public education system
Nietzsche\u27s Ariadne: a new perspective on the eternal recurrence
No full textIt is my contention that Nietzsche undertakes Ariadne as a solution to the inadequacies of Dionysus (the loneliness of what assimilates in the enaction of its values, what negates in alignment towards itself) precisely because she is a woman—and hence most capable of inverting the philosophical concept Woman as a synecdoche of all marginalized groups within structures of dominant thought: the disabled, the stateless, the queer, the dispossessed. In order to fully explore the potential capacities of this perspective, I piece together Nietzsche\u27s sense of Ariadne through his every extant reference to her—from his Empedocles outline to Ariadne\u27s Lament and his January 1889 letters—unfolding her as a critique of Woman and as a parodic rejection of Wagnerian Romantic nationalism (as a counter-Brünhilde) in order to arrive, finally, at the point of constructing an Ariadneac perspective and set of questions, principally a reevaluation of the Übermensch and the Wille zur Macht (Will to Power) away from their conceptual baggage as piled on by generations of Nietzschean commentators, in order to arrive at a position where language itself can be approached non-conceptually, non-metaphysically, and non-representationally, so that we can undertake a new poetr
Outdated, Archaic, and Stereotypical: Current Medicaid Income and Asset Limits Discriminate Against Working Individuals with Disabilities
Get PDFIn the Shadow of Supply Chains: The EU Draft Due Diligence Directive, Corporate Enslavement, and the Case for the Inclusion of Corporate Reparations
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Full Issue: Spring 2022
Get PDFIn this issue of DePaul Magazine we celebrate the legacy and contributions of A. Gabriel Esteban, PhD, 12th president of DePaul University, as he steps down from his position at the end of the academic year. Also: Casting director and alumna Brittani Ward brings her Hollywood career home to Chicago, two faculty members mine pop culture to discover keys to our changing social landscape, and an alumna and her family think big picture with a gift supporting the community-engagement efforts of DePaul\u27s Visual Art Education program
Full Issue: Spring 2017
Get PDFIn this issue of DePaul Magazine we review the evolution of DePaul as a leader in higher education and, specifically, the university’s accomplishments during the presidency of the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M