numerous factors coming together to form their social perspective. In the centuries before Constantine came to the throne in the Roman Empire, the realm was pagan and held pagan beliefs. Constantine elevated Christianity—or rather Roman Catholicism. When Rome fell, the monks and missionaries of the Roman Catholic faith provided some degree of stability and a cogent doctrine that had social implications as well as educational implications for the various tribes and peoples of Europe. Charlemagne unified the warring factions for a time and was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in the year 800… Continue Reading...
2016). The problem has been compounded by the fragmentation of political and social perspectives in the modern era, with relativism taking a larger and larger portion of the pie of perspectives so that there is little uniformity or universality in terms of how people approach the concept of discipline in the classroom.
In nearly every case, it appears that discipline and classroom management are topics that are commonly left up to the individual whim of the instructor—some of whom might prefer a preventive strategy while others might prefer a corrective disciplinary strategy while still others might prefer a liberal strategy that is… Continue Reading...
costs/benefits?
The use of ADR has both short-term and long-term costs and benefits from a financial and social perspective. One of the key advantages of ADR… Continue Reading...
social perspectives—how points of view were formed. Weber (1904) stated that “all knowledge of cultural reality... is always knowledge from particular points of view.” By this he meant that one cannot understand “social facts” because they are entirely predicated by subjective experiences that have to be understood as personal subjective experiences—not as objective realities like fossils in the earth. He argued that “an ‘objective’ analysis of cultural events, which proceeds according to the thesis that the ideal of science is the reduction of empirical reality to ‘laws’, is meaningless.” Weber… Continue Reading...
