Unity through Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Aroop Mukharji
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Successes And Failures

Abstract The last four years have not only witnessed the largest domestic protests in U.S. history, but the steady polarization of U.S. politics has been a widening trend for decades. Policymakers eager to heal the country can learn from history. The Progressive Era offers one big idea to reduce division: public education. A robust educational system undergirds progress, stability, and unity, and it enables follow-on opportunities of social reform and equality. The Progressive Era’s laudable expansion of public education also, however, reversed progress on racial equality and neglected to resolve an inflammatory media, mistakes that have contributed to today’s division. Learning from the successes and failures of one of the most ambitious Progressive Era programs presents the United States with one path forward to solving its internal turmoil.

Women’s Rights, Suffrage, and Citizenship, 1789–1920

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Carol DuBois
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Early National Period ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Antebellum Politics ◽  
Early National

The United States was a pioneer in the development of women’s rights ideas and activism. Far-seeing women, determined to find an active and equal place in the nation’s political affairs, pushed long and hard to realize America’s democratic promise. Over three-quarters of a century, women’s rights and suffrage leaders steadily agitated their cause through a shifting American political landscape, from the careful innovations of the early national period, through the expansive involvements of antebellum politics, into the dramatic shifts of revolution and reaction in the post–Civil War years, up to the modernization of the Progressive Era. The meaning and content of “womanhood,” the sign under which these campaigns were conducted, also shifted. Labor, class, and especially race inclusions and exclusions were contentious dimensions of the American women’s rights movement, as they were of American liberal democracy in general.

‘Teaching’ Practicing

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-51
Author(s):  
Jeanne Simonelli ◽  
Bill Roberts
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Successes And Failures

The monthly feature Teaching Practicing provides an opportunity for social scientists and other practitioners to exchange ideas concerning how to deal with particular methodological, theoretical or ethical concerns, since we have much to learn from each other's successes and failures, both obvious and subtle. In this issue practitioners working in the United States have analyzed and reported on their projects and initiatives in towns and cities all over the nation.

Social Work Education in the Federal Republic of Germany

1982 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-13
Author(s):  
Jakob Braun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Work Education

This article describes social work education in the Federal Republic of Germany and how it is implemented in the Fachhochschulen, a type of profes sional school initiated in 1970/71. Following description of the educational system in Germany and the structural location of the Fachhochschulen consideration is given to curriculum and its organization within the Katholische Stiftungsfachho chschule in Munich as an example. Some comparisons are made to social work education in the United States.

Encouraging Coreligionists in the Academy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas K. Rademacher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Home Institution ◽  
John Courtney Murray

Furfey pursued an intellectual apostolate according to which he advanced social justice in theory and practice through his scholarship and correspondence. In the mid-1930’s Furfey concentrated on developing and articulating a specifically Catholic response to social problems. He revised his objective, concentrating on developing a Catholic technique and corresponding foundational Catholic motivation to address social problems. Furfey advanced and defended his position in print, writing several books and many articles on the topic, and through voluminous correspondence with leading Catholic intellectuals in the United States. Il Poverello House and Fides House represented his and his colleagues’ attempt to develop a social reform technique that was both thoroughly Catholic and rigorously scientific. He received support and cooperation from his colleagues at CUA and in the broader Catholic community. A rift emerged at his home institution. Mary Elizabeth Walsh most prominently supported and advanced supernatural sociology while Gladys Sellew wavered, expressing distress and dissatisfaction with respect to the meaning and application of supernatural sociology. The chapter also considers the challenges to Furfey’s theological society levelled by Raymond McGowan, Wilfred Parsons, and John Courtney Murray.

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