Professional Libraries

Archives, educational Horizons

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Present and past issues of educational Horizons, the journal of Pi Lambda Theta. Contains a variety of catalogued articles on education related topics.

Interrogatories for Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution

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An interrogatory is a set of questions composed and structured to yield consistent and comparable results within a given discipline, field of inquiry or practice. Multiple examples are provided either schematically or embedded in explanatory text.

Chalk and Talk BLOG

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Perspectives on Education by Philadelphia Public School Teachers

BlogLocusTOPICS & ISSUES

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An index of issues and topics introduced on NewFoundations Bloglocus with hyperlinks to articles.

A Library of Model Cases for Analysis

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Learn how to contrast, compare and classify closely related ideas by examining behaviorally described situations for critical characteristics. Instructions, examples, worksheets and data sheets provided.

Hypothesizing Exercises

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A table of anecdotes linked to exercise sheets

Philosophy of Education: readings and related assignments

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Readings and Related Assignments for: Distance Learning Projects , Independent Studies and Advanced Preparation of Intensive Study Seminar

No Biz Like Ed Biz

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The droll, the absurd, the funny, the unbelievable -- and education is supposed to be so dull, so pedestrian, so unexciting!

Second Thoughts -- a blog of less heard perspectives

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A number of short articles that bring up issues often overlooked by the purveyors of the obvious or the unexamined.

Preventing Plagiarism & Cheating

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How widespread is academic cheating? How is it done? What can you do about it?

What is plagiarism? How can you recognize it? What can you do about it?

Writing a Dissertation

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Instructions, suggestions and considerations

NewFoundations Bloglocus

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Alternatives to the drivel usually promulgated about education.

What is Woman?

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Famous and Infamous men, often with foot in mouth, weigh in on the "nature" of the female gender.

Charts, Diagrams, Illustrations and PowerPoint Presentations

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Useful for organizing information in multiple dimensions.

Topic Pathfinders

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Web Sources for Important Issues in Education and Related Fields

Ethical Issues in Education

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Practicing educators reflect on professional concerns

Controversy Analysis

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Introduces a procedure and gives examples of controversies analyzed via a standard interrogatory.

Ethical Argument, Practical Proposal

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In each of the essays below, a proposal is presented. Each author undertakes a. to show that at root there is an issue of ethical import. b. to provide each proposal (the claim) with a supporting structure of justification according to Toulmin: evidence, warrants and bases. c. to provide a cursory cost-benefit analysis probabilized over the short and long run; and d. to address rebuttals related to Cue, Concern and Control.

Ethics in Educational Practice

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Articles Addressing Morality or Ethics in Educational Practice

Gallery of Educational Theorists

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Everyone analyzed in this gallery has had his or her theories investigated in eight areas of concern: What is Worth Knowing? What is Knowledge? What is the Human Being? What is Learning? How is Knowledge to be Transmitted? What is Society? Who is to Have the Opportunity? What is Consensus?

Misgivings & Reconsiderations

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Second thoughts about some "bright ideas" in education.

Organizational Issues and Insights

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Papers examinining various aspects of organizational functioning and culture.

Policy Issues and Analyses

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Articles of critical examination of policy theory and practice.

Program Planning in a Competitive Environment

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Proposals and curriculum developed  for presentation in an adversarial context