Taboo articles

Recent articles from Taboo

Editorial.
March 22, 2006... You'll be receiving this issue at the end of the Summer of 2006, and looking towards a healthy and productive remainder of the year. Many passages this year, including several beloved colleagues and friends, along with the scores of service women and men dying in the Middle East and the...

A Dine (Navajo) perspective on self-determination: an exposition of an egalitarian place.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2006... On a sunny July morning, in 2000, high in the plateau country of the Ramah Navajo with pinon trees surrounding us, I sat next to an old man, who had just finished checking the rusty barbed wire and aging wooden fence posts of his small corn field. Even in his eighties the old man, hammer and...

Academic achievement in an age of irresponsibility.(teaching children to accept academic and social responsibilities)
March 22, 2006... My children think I am a terrible mother. You see, I rarely "help" them do their homework. I also rarely "help" them do projects for school, such as the Egyptian project my younger son was required to do last year. The day the Egyptian project was due, I accompanied my son as he carried into...

Thinking philosophically.
March 22, 2006... I am a philosopher of education by training. While well warned by my mentors of the hazards inherent to my trade, I still have been stunned by the magnitude of the loneliness engendered, at least in part, by the disrepute that my trade has acquired. It has taken me only a short time at my...

Talking to foucault: examining marginalization and exclusion in academic science.
March 22, 2006... Although we usually think about writing as a mode of "telling" about the social world, writing is not just a moping-up activity at the end of a research project. Writing is also a way of "knowing"--a method of discovery and analysis. By writing in different ways, we discover new aspects of...