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For A Moment I Feel Free: Homeless Women And A Garden-Based Learning Program, Catherine Ann Pierce
For A Moment I Feel Free: Homeless Women And A Garden-Based Learning Program, Catherine Ann Pierce
Doctoral Dissertations
A recent study conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2007) concluded that in January 2005 at least 754,147 people were homeless on an average day. Families with children are the fastest-growing sector of the homeless population and comprise 40% of the homeless population. Most of these families are headed by single women and reside in shelters rather than on the streets. Loss of one’s home, the conditions of shelter life, and the physical and sexual abuse that often precipitate homelessness result in diminished self-efficacy and hope. There is an urgent need to mitigate the psychological traumas …
A Conversation Between Confucius And Dewey On Individual And Community — A Hope For Human Unity, Hongmei Peng
A Conversation Between Confucius And Dewey On Individual And Community — A Hope For Human Unity, Hongmei Peng
Doctoral Dissertations
The relationship between 'individual' and 'community', or others, is a focal concern in philosophy both in China and in the Euro-western world. Individualism and collectivism, the two entirely different traditions of philosophy that describe a different relationship between 'individual' and 'community', have a long polemic history and are still practiced in our everyday lives. They play an essential role in schools in terms of the way teachers teach our children and relationships children develop with their classmates. This dissertation is a philosophical comparative effort to explore the conceptions of individual and community, and the relationship between the two in Confucian …