Teaching and Review Essays

Immediately beneath each topic is a brief summary of how Susan and jeanne see that topic as conceptually linked to peace and issues of social justice.

Abortion

In the interest of understanding one of the most controversial social, philosophical, moral, and medical issues of our day.

• Abortion On a Canadian Religious Tolerance Site.
• The Ultimate ProLife Resource List
• Planned Parenthood Site

Academic Resources

In the interest of providing study aids on the site.
See Scholastic Resources.

Adversarialism and Mutuality

In the interest of understanding that specific paradigms of world views are not inevitable and not mutually exclusive, and that shifts in these paradigms are possible.

• Rambo and the Dalai Lama
  by Gordon Fellman
  • Introduction to Fellman's Text
  • Tolerance of Ambiguity in Fellman's Paradigms
  • Empathy in Fellman's Paradigms and "In Good Faith"
  • Definition of Adversarialism: Fellman
  • Conceptual Linking: Linking Fellman to our several classes

  Transformative Discourse on Adversarialism

  In the interest of recognizing alternative responses that can aid in the shifting of the paradigm of adversarialism towards the paradigm of mutuality.

  • Transforming Discourse Through the Practice of Love The Teacher Who Practiced Loving

Art As Expanding the Imaginary

In the interest of recognizing the spiritual and the imaginary in a "rational" world.

• Art, Dramaturgy, and Social Psychology after TR Young.

• Bertoldt Brecht: On Art as a Commodity Link first to life, then to readings, then to Bertoldt Brecht. Link added in October 2000. checked on July 14, 2001.

Artists on Peace and Social Justice

Sculpture

• Mobiles / Kinetic Sculpture
  by Matthew Brand. Link added August 28, 1999. Checked August 5, 2001.
• Mobiles / Kinetic Sculpture: Artificial Artists
  by Matthew Brand. Link added August 28, 1999. Checked August 5, 2001.

Painting

• Jacob Lawrence
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Romare Bearden
• Damien Hirst
• Chris Ofili

Art and Artists We Should Know

In the interest of recognition of artists and art work as part of our global culture.
• Cappella Sistina The Sistine Chapel. Christus Rex Site. In English. Provides a tour of the chapel and good explanation. The pictures are linked to larger versions, which provide a good view. Link added August 2, 2001.
• The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996 Chris Ofili. This is the painting from the Saatchi Collection that caused such a hullabaloo in Brooklyn last year. Uses elephant dung as a social statement in his paintings. He won the Turner Prize in 1998. Link added in July 2001. backup.
• Jacob Lawrence
• Graffiti Art

Attitude and Persuasion Change: Theory

In the interest of understanding instrumental as well as communicative speech, this section addresses our attempts to persuade and/or control others according to our own ends.
• Levels of Affect in Persuasion and Learning
  Teaching essay on Edward T. Hall's The Silent Language.
• Knowingness Teaching essay on Jonathan Lear's concept of knowingness, our "need to know."