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Restorative Justice Practices as a Framework for Change in Higher Education
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Mrowka, Kaleigh Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation project interrogates the efficacy of restorative justice practices in repairing interconnections, human dignity, and social responsibility. More specifically, I analyze how these practices enable the creation of more relational spaces/relational ecologies in higher education in the United States. Using a collaborative…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Higher Education, Human Dignity, Social Responsibility
Our Purposes: Personal Reflections on Character Development and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
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Chickering, Arthur W. – Liberal Education, 2010
Recognition of the importance of outcomes related to moral and ethical development, other dimensions of personal development, and civic engagement is a result of decades of educational reform. But have colleges and universities succeeded in helping students achieve these outcomes? In this article, the author shares his personal reflections on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Human Dignity, Moral Values
Education and the Humanization of Society
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Proctor, Samuel D. – Educational Record, 1977
Several questions are probed: Can education truly encourage the individual to develop his unique capabilities? Can it be an agent in the humanization of society? Is that humanization dependent on reordering society? Can education really solve society's problems? (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Cultural Context, Educational Responsibility, Higher Education
Technology and the Nature of Man: A View from the Humanities. An Occasional Paper on Man/Society/Technology.
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Stasny, John F. – 1976
The author reflects on the declining appreciation of the humanities in light of the major role which technology plays in our lives today. Three issues related to this problem are identified: what educators should do about the loss of our literary heritage, what values operate in our technological society, and whether faith in man's unconquerable…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Educational Problems, Higher Education
A Woman's College and the Woman's Tradition: A Defense of Female Leadership and Internationalism at Mount Holyoke. ASHE 1983 Annual Meeting Paper.
Drakeman, Lisa – 1983
Views on the importance of the woman's contributions to shaping culture and the role of female leadership at Mount Holyoke College are considered. According to historian Mary Ritter Beard, the "woman's tradition" of imparting a progressive social consciousness to the culture has been an important influence. Beard addressed Mount Holyoke…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Role, Educational History, Females
Teachers and Mentors: Profiles of Distinguished Twentieth-Century Professors of Education.
Kridel, Craig, Ed.; And Others – 1996
This volume contains 22 original essays describing important professors of education and focusing on how their teaching and mentoring inspired and influenced the essays' authors. Following a foreword by Ernest L. Boyer that reflects on the role of teaching in scholarship and the continuity of knowledge, the essays are grouped in four parts under…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Human Dignity
Institute of International Education 1986 Annual Report.
Taylor, Mary Louise – 1986
The 1986 contributions of the Institute of International Education (IIE) through development assistance and educational and cultural exchange are described along with the history of the 40-year-old Fulbright Program which IIE helps to administer. Attention is directied to: IIE in the arts, in efforts to build developing-country institutions, in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Annual Reports, Cultural Exchange, Developing Nations