Journal of Thought articles

Recent articles from Journal of Thought

Editor's introduction: questioning the questions.
December 22, 2006... Do you ever wonder why some scholars ask so many questions and others ask so few? Are some brighter, better educated, more reflective and inquisitive than others? Are some scholars simply more dogmatic and less well informed about epistemological issues? Do those who bypass a lot of questions...

Freedom of speech, American public education, and standardized tests: a critical enquiry (1).
December 22, 2006... When you have [thus] formed the chain of ideas in the heads of your citizens, you will then be able to pride yourselves on guiding them and being their masters. The stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains, but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of...

University speaker censorship in 1951 and today: new McCarthyism and community relations.
December 22, 2006... More than a half-century after the McCarthy era, allegations of witch-hunts, blacklists, and indoctrination have returned to academia. Politicians, student groups, and David Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights campaign have sought legislative control of university curricula and policy. (1)...

Social studies methodology viewed as in a hermeneutic perspective.
December 22, 2006... Introduction Many argue that Social Studies has "gone wrong" (Leming, Ellington, & Porter-Magee, 2003) because student engagement with the subject often remains either nothing more than an encounter with the discipline of history or a nebulous, content-light, and morally shaky curriculum...

Wright-ing White: the construction of race in women's 19th century didactic texts.(Julia McNair Wright)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... "... until very recently, and regardless of the race of the author, the readers of virtually all of American fiction have been positioned as White. I am interested to know what that assumption has meant to the literary imagination."--Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the...