This paper examines how the academic study of hate can be understood through Catholic social justice teachings with an emphasis on the Jesuit commitment to faith and justice to allow for a critical reflection on the relationship between theory and practice. To make the connections between social justice and the study of hate, the paper begins with…

The relationship between a parent and their child who has SEN is one that, by necessity, is shared with a larger than usual group of professionals. It is perhaps inevitable, then, that this relationship has been an occasionally precarious one, with a potential for conflict due to differing perspectives and priorities. Although the ideal of…

Background: Support for small schools, and specifically for the creation of small, autonomous schools of choice, has grown considerably in the past decade--particularly in the context of urban schooling. Funded by private and public monies, small-school initiatives have been implemented in most of the nation's city school districts and have become…

Theorists often take a condescending stance when speaking about the educationalization of social problems. Given their confidence with postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives, the educationalization of social problems is easily perceived as a set of questionable interventions by governments into educational practices. In this essay, Bert…

For decades sociologists, criminologists, political scientists and socio-legal scholars alike have focused on the symbolic and instrumental dimensions of law in examinations of the effects of social reform and policy implementation. Following in this tradition, we focus on the relationship between hate crime policy and hate crime reporting to…

Advocacy for child development programs is discussed in this document. Advocacy for child development programs is described as having two main components: (1) convincing the general public of the importance of early childhood development; and (2) persuading lawmakers to allocate funds needed to do the job well. Ten guidelines for effective…

Ways parents can help their children deal with information and emotions associated with the threat of nuclear war are offered in this paper. Also included is a list of actions that children can take to make their opposition to nuclear war known. (RH)

Describes the newly formed British Council for Science and Society, the purpose of which is to identify specific developments in science and technology whose social consequences lie just over the horizon. (BR)

Dorothy Day and the American Catholic Worker Movement are paradoxical in that they are at the same time conservative and radical, liturgical and rebellious, holy and subversive. These apparently paradoxical qualities become clear when translated through the components of the prophetic movement model. Within this model, prophetic movements are…

Advances the hypothesis that competency be defined in terms of mastery of methods of social action that are based on explanation and prediction within the objective context, understanding of social meaning within the human context, and interpretation of both in social action. (Author/IRT)

This paper locates Paulo Freire within the prophetic tradition of the Christian Church and seeks to examine the basis of his thinking from this perspective. The paper includes four parts: (1) the social context of Freire's work; (2) development and modernization; (3) the place of education; and (4) a concluding discussion. (JOW)

Describes the life and work of John Howard, the great English prison reformer, who pioneered in exposing certain inequities of the English social system through his publications, his investigation of prison conditions first hand, and his appearances before Parliament. (CT)

Dazzled by the potential of model housing as a solution to Boston's housing problem after the Civil War, Henry Bowditch founded the Boston Co-operative Building Company. Details of the company's operation provides insight into the nature of the housing problem and the mind of the nineteenth-century housing reformer. (Author/RM)