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Research paper thumbnail of Cultivation of Character for Ethical Leadership: The Department of Leadership Education at Culver Academies

Journal of character & leadership integration, Mar 12, 2024

Since 1894, Culver Academies has aimed to develop leaders of character. Rooted in the military ac... more Since 1894, Culver Academies has aimed to develop leaders of character. Rooted in the military academy and boarding school traditions, Culver has centered leadership development around central virtues and values. In 1986, recognizing the need to provide integrated, successive leadership learning experiences for students across 4 years, Culver instituted a standalone academic Department of Leadership Education. The Department of Leadership Education, housed in the Schrage Leadership Center, is unique among secondary boarding schools in offering four successive academic leadership education classroom experiences alongside Student Life curricula. Each year's curriculum is centered in a transformational leadership framework, utilizing evidence-based tools to guide students' leadership and character growth at each level. Ultimately, students' growth is assessed by faculty (and students themselves) according to core leadership and character competencies developed by the Academies. Continual improvement of the department is ensured through a comprehensive triennial review process. The aim of this article is to illustrate a successful, iterative character and leadership education experience in a 4-year secondary school context.

Research paper thumbnail of Sicut Sol Inter Astra: Timely Latin in the Aftermath of the Fire at Notre-Dame

The journal of classics teaching, 2020

This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 31 May 2019 and has been updated for the ... more This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 31 May 2019 and has been updated for the Journal of Classics Teaching. The author would like to acknowledge the helpful feedback from the editors at In Medias Res and The Journal of Classics Teaching on earlier drafts of this essay. Their suggestions helped produce a superior piece. On April 15 2019, about a month ago, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame burned in Paris. I had just finished teaching for the day when I heard the news. I opened my phone and saw a text from my dad: 'Notre Dame (Cathedral) is burning down. ' I was in a daze. In my Latin III class, we had just finished reading from Ovid's opening invocation in the Metamorphoses 1.1-2: in nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora (Or in Arthur Golding's sonorous sixteenth-century rendering: 'Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge, I purpose to entreate' (Golding 21).

Research paper thumbnail of To Form More than to Inform

American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy

In this paper we argue that God and the Good Life, a prominent philosophy as a way of life (PWOL)... more In this paper we argue that God and the Good Life, a prominent philosophy as a way of life (PWOL) undergraduate course, serves the needs of novices in philosophy classrooms, whether they plan to continue in the study of philosophy or not. We draw from both philosophy and educational psychology in making our case and highlight four distinctive components of God and the Good Life pedagogy at the University of Notre Dame: 1) transformative learning goals, 2) immersive experiences, 3) deep personal connections to students’ everyday lives, and 4) cooperative relationships of mutual support in a community of dialogue. We end with a coda on even wider relevance for PWOL pedagogies in bringing about the pluralistic society we hope for, even in our deeply polarized societal moment.

Research paper thumbnail of Imagination and the Genealogy of Morals in the Appendix to Spinoza’s Ethics 1 in advance

International Philosophical Quarterly

Research paper thumbnail of Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom (F.G.) Henshaw, (M.D.) Hawkins Pp. xii + 198. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2022. Paper, US$23.95. ISBN: 978-1-64793-006-6

Journal of Classics Teaching

Second Language Acquisition Goes to the Classroom will become, in this reviewer's estimation, the... more Second Language Acquisition Goes to the Classroom will become, in this reviewer's estimation, the go-to resource for language educators looking to ground their practice in the evidence currently available in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. Thus, it not only fills an important gap for world language educators looking for an accessible, practical introduction to the findings of SLA. As the authors note, too often pedagogy texts err either on not introducing enough of the contemporary learning science to be evidence-based or lack sufficient discussion of classroom implementation to be truly useful-but does so in an exemplary way. Accordingly, in this review I aim to outline and emphasise its merits and encourage its use among educators of Greek and Latin rather than point to its (few) shortcomings. I have every expectation that it will become a standard resource for Latin and Greek teachers who wish to start (and deepen) their engagement with SLA. First, I'll say a bit about the form of the text, as it is a particular strength. The authors, Florencia Henshaw (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maris Hawkins (Capitol Hill Day School), helpfully divide each chapter according to the needs of the practising language educator. Each chapter has three sections. The first, What do I need to know?, distills the current SLA research on important key research areas (for example, on acquisition, input, output, communicative modes, etc.) into summarised findings. These findings, in turn, motivate a practical, hands-on description of several tasks, routines, and assessments in world language classrooms informed by these findings. This section is referred to as What does it look like in the classroom? Last, building on nearly a century of educational psychology, the authors ask us to actively reflect on our learning in each chapter using action prompts in sections entitled Now that you know…

Research paper thumbnail of The Miracle of Mosaic Prophecy in The Guide of the Perplexed

Journal of Religious & Theological Information

Research paper thumbnail of A Model for a Practiced, Global, Liberatory Virtue Ethics Curriculum in advance

Research paper thumbnail of Pindar's Odes (A). Miller University of California Press: Oakland, 2019. Pp. 376 £16.99 ISBN 978-0-52030-000-2

Journal of Classics Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine's Political Thought ed. by Richard J. Dougherty

Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The Way to Learn and the Way to Teach Joseph de Jouvancy, S.J. Eds. Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur. 2020. Boston: Boston College Institute of Jesuit Sources. Pages: 270. ISBN: 978-1-947617-04-9. $39.95

Journal of Classics Teaching, 2021

The Boston College Institute of Jesuit Sources has published a new side-by-side English-Latin edi... more The Boston College Institute of Jesuit Sources has published a new side-by-side English-Latin edition of the 1703 classic of Jesuit education, the De discendi et docendi ratione (On the Way to Learn and the Way to Teach), by the 17th century classical humanist and pedagogue Joseph de Jouvancy, S.J. For reasons I shall outline here, this is a most welcome development not only for scholars of Jesuit and Church educational history, but for Classics teachers as well. More than a fascinating historical document, the book is brimming with valuable pedagogical reflections and practices for the Latin and Greek teacher. Most important, the book reminds teachers of the importance of inspiration and encouraging the heart in educating students, in keeping with the Jesuit value of cura personalis (care of the whole person) in teaching. Jouvancy’s De discendi et docendi ratione (hereafter, De ratione) is, in important respects, a follow-up to the monumental 1599 Ratio studiorum, the foundational ...

Research paper thumbnail of Cicero Philosophico-Politicus: Glory, Friendship, Utopia

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Conserere Sapientiam’, To Engage in Wisdom: The Rhetoric of Philosophical Debate and the Speech of Caecilius in Minucius Felix’s Octavius

New England Classical Journal

Here I will elucidate both the rhetorical and philosophical significance of the introduction to M... more Here I will elucidate both the rhetorical and philosophical significance of the introduction to Minucius Felix’s Octavius—in effect, to give voice to what Minucius Felix hoped to do in having Caecilius and Octavius conserere sapientiam (‘engage in wisdom’). I draw special attention to the introduction to the dialogue because (i) Minucius’ rhetorical care in establishing an appropriate otium (in other words, a locus amoenus) for his dialogue participants has been underappreciated (ii) because Caecilius’ arguments have, in general, been given short-shrift, and, (iii) because the view that the introductory parts should, instead, be read with suspicion has found a recent prominent voice in an influential recent article (Powell 2007).

Research paper thumbnail of Scipio’s Rome and Critias’ Athens: Utopian Mythmaking in Cicero’s De Republica and Plato’s Timaeus

Scholarly debate on the relationship between Cicero’s De republica (On the Republic) and De Legib... more Scholarly debate on the relationship between Cicero’s De republica (On the Republic) and De Legibus (On the Laws) and the thought of Plato tends to focus on the supposed congruities or incongruities of the De republica and De legibus with Plato’s own Republic and Laws. Still, Plato’s discussion of ideal constitutions is not constrained to the Republic and Laws. In this essay I propose that we look to another of Plato’s dialogues for fruitful comparison: the Timaeus-Critias duology. In this essay I bring these two texts into substantive dialogue to illuminate mysterious features of both. Sketched in these complementary passages, I think, is an outline for a particular kind of approach to political theory, one proposed as novel by Cicero’s Laelius, but, as this essay hopes to show, with an interesting forerunner in Plato. I’ve called this approach ‘retrospective ideal political philosophy’ (RIPP). I end my essay with a few prospective theoretical notes on how this approach binds these...

Research paper thumbnail of Cicero Pro Milone (T.J) Keeline. Pp. 381. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Paper £24.99. ISBN: 9781107179738

Journal of Classics Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of Cicero's Catilinarians. D.H. Berry Pp. 288. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Paper £16.99. ISBN: 9780195326475

Journal of Classics Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of Eusebius of Caesarea: The History of the Church. Eusebius (J) Schott (trans). University of California Press: Oakland, CA. 2019. Pp. 552 £14.99 ISBN 978-0-52029-110-2

Journal of Classics Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of Distance-learning with Seneca

Journal of Classics Teaching

On April 6th 2020 Steven Hunt wrote in Ad Familiares about the relative preparedness of Classics ... more On April 6th 2020 Steven Hunt wrote in Ad Familiares about the relative preparedness of Classics for distance-learning in a time of coronavirus (Hunt 2020). He wrote, ‘Classics continues to thrive online, buzzing up and down the wires, zapping through the air, and into countless homes through computer screen, laptop, ipad and smartphone.’ (Hunt 2020). Pointing to over two decades of intentional investment in an online, digital world for Classics and Classics learning in the UK and US, Hunt concludes: ‘So now, with the challenges before us of having to teach remotely using the internet, Latinists are already digital natives: students know how to find the materials, use them efficiently, and learn.’

Research paper thumbnail of Teletherapeia: Ancient Consolation in the Distance Latin Classroom

Journal of Classics Teaching

This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 29 May 2020 and has been updated for the ... more This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 29 May 2020 and has been updated for the Journal of Classics Teaching. The author would like to acknowledge the helpful feedback from the editors at In Medias Res and The Journal of Classics Teaching on earlier drafts of this essay. Their suggestions helped produce a superior piece.

Research paper thumbnail of Sicut Sol Inter Astra: Timely Latin in the Aftermath of the Fire at Notre-Dame

Journal of Classics Teaching

This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 31 May 2019 and has been updated for the ... more This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 31 May 2019 and has been updated for the Journal of Classics Teaching. The author would like to acknowledge the helpful feedback from the editors at In Medias Res and The Journal of Classics Teaching on earlier drafts of this essay. Their suggestions helped produce a superior piece.

Research paper thumbnail of Aristotle’s Methodology for Natural Science in Physics 1-2: a New Interpretation

Journal of Ancient Philosophy

In this essay I will argue for an interpretation of the remarks of Physics 1.1 that both resolves... more In this essay I will argue for an interpretation of the remarks of Physics 1.1 that both resolves some of the confusion surrounding the precise nature of methodology described there and shows how those remarks at 184a15-25 serve as important programmatic remarks besides, as they help in the structuring of books 1 and 2 of the Physics. I will argue that “what is clearer and more knowable to us” is what Aristotle goes on to describe in 1.2—namely, that nature exists and that natural things change—his basic starting-point for natural science. This, I shall hope to show, is the kind of “immediate” sense datum which Aristotle thinks must be further analyzed in terms of principles (archai) and then causes (aitia) over the course of Physics books 1 and 2 to lead to knowledge about the natural world.[1] Such an analysis arrives at, as I shall show, a definition (horismos) of nature not initially available from the starting-point just mentioned (i.e., it is in need of further analysis), and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Cultivation of Character for Ethical Leadership: The Department of Leadership Education at Culver Academies

Journal of character & leadership integration, Mar 12, 2024

Since 1894, Culver Academies has aimed to develop leaders of character. Rooted in the military ac... more Since 1894, Culver Academies has aimed to develop leaders of character. Rooted in the military academy and boarding school traditions, Culver has centered leadership development around central virtues and values. In 1986, recognizing the need to provide integrated, successive leadership learning experiences for students across 4 years, Culver instituted a standalone academic Department of Leadership Education. The Department of Leadership Education, housed in the Schrage Leadership Center, is unique among secondary boarding schools in offering four successive academic leadership education classroom experiences alongside Student Life curricula. Each year's curriculum is centered in a transformational leadership framework, utilizing evidence-based tools to guide students' leadership and character growth at each level. Ultimately, students' growth is assessed by faculty (and students themselves) according to core leadership and character competencies developed by the Academies. Continual improvement of the department is ensured through a comprehensive triennial review process. The aim of this article is to illustrate a successful, iterative character and leadership education experience in a 4-year secondary school context.

Research paper thumbnail of Sicut Sol Inter Astra: Timely Latin in the Aftermath of the Fire at Notre-Dame

The journal of classics teaching, 2020

This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 31 May 2019 and has been updated for the ... more This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 31 May 2019 and has been updated for the Journal of Classics Teaching. The author would like to acknowledge the helpful feedback from the editors at In Medias Res and The Journal of Classics Teaching on earlier drafts of this essay. Their suggestions helped produce a superior piece. On April 15 2019, about a month ago, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame burned in Paris. I had just finished teaching for the day when I heard the news. I opened my phone and saw a text from my dad: 'Notre Dame (Cathedral) is burning down. ' I was in a daze. In my Latin III class, we had just finished reading from Ovid's opening invocation in the Metamorphoses 1.1-2: in nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora (Or in Arthur Golding's sonorous sixteenth-century rendering: 'Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge, I purpose to entreate' (Golding 21).

Research paper thumbnail of To Form More than to Inform

American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy

In this paper we argue that God and the Good Life, a prominent philosophy as a way of life (PWOL)... more In this paper we argue that God and the Good Life, a prominent philosophy as a way of life (PWOL) undergraduate course, serves the needs of novices in philosophy classrooms, whether they plan to continue in the study of philosophy or not. We draw from both philosophy and educational psychology in making our case and highlight four distinctive components of God and the Good Life pedagogy at the University of Notre Dame: 1) transformative learning goals, 2) immersive experiences, 3) deep personal connections to students’ everyday lives, and 4) cooperative relationships of mutual support in a community of dialogue. We end with a coda on even wider relevance for PWOL pedagogies in bringing about the pluralistic society we hope for, even in our deeply polarized societal moment.

Research paper thumbnail of Imagination and the Genealogy of Morals in the Appendix to Spinoza’s Ethics 1 in advance

International Philosophical Quarterly

Research paper thumbnail of Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom (F.G.) Henshaw, (M.D.) Hawkins Pp. xii + 198. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2022. Paper, US$23.95. ISBN: 978-1-64793-006-6

Journal of Classics Teaching

Second Language Acquisition Goes to the Classroom will become, in this reviewer's estimation, the... more Second Language Acquisition Goes to the Classroom will become, in this reviewer's estimation, the go-to resource for language educators looking to ground their practice in the evidence currently available in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. Thus, it not only fills an important gap for world language educators looking for an accessible, practical introduction to the findings of SLA. As the authors note, too often pedagogy texts err either on not introducing enough of the contemporary learning science to be evidence-based or lack sufficient discussion of classroom implementation to be truly useful-but does so in an exemplary way. Accordingly, in this review I aim to outline and emphasise its merits and encourage its use among educators of Greek and Latin rather than point to its (few) shortcomings. I have every expectation that it will become a standard resource for Latin and Greek teachers who wish to start (and deepen) their engagement with SLA. First, I'll say a bit about the form of the text, as it is a particular strength. The authors, Florencia Henshaw (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maris Hawkins (Capitol Hill Day School), helpfully divide each chapter according to the needs of the practising language educator. Each chapter has three sections. The first, What do I need to know?, distills the current SLA research on important key research areas (for example, on acquisition, input, output, communicative modes, etc.) into summarised findings. These findings, in turn, motivate a practical, hands-on description of several tasks, routines, and assessments in world language classrooms informed by these findings. This section is referred to as What does it look like in the classroom? Last, building on nearly a century of educational psychology, the authors ask us to actively reflect on our learning in each chapter using action prompts in sections entitled Now that you know…

Research paper thumbnail of The Miracle of Mosaic Prophecy in The Guide of the Perplexed

Journal of Religious & Theological Information

Research paper thumbnail of A Model for a Practiced, Global, Liberatory Virtue Ethics Curriculum in advance

Research paper thumbnail of Pindar's Odes (A). Miller University of California Press: Oakland, 2019. Pp. 376 £16.99 ISBN 978-0-52030-000-2

Journal of Classics Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of Augustine's Political Thought ed. by Richard J. Dougherty

Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The Way to Learn and the Way to Teach Joseph de Jouvancy, S.J. Eds. Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur. 2020. Boston: Boston College Institute of Jesuit Sources. Pages: 270. ISBN: 978-1-947617-04-9. $39.95

Journal of Classics Teaching, 2021

The Boston College Institute of Jesuit Sources has published a new side-by-side English-Latin edi... more The Boston College Institute of Jesuit Sources has published a new side-by-side English-Latin edition of the 1703 classic of Jesuit education, the De discendi et docendi ratione (On the Way to Learn and the Way to Teach), by the 17th century classical humanist and pedagogue Joseph de Jouvancy, S.J. For reasons I shall outline here, this is a most welcome development not only for scholars of Jesuit and Church educational history, but for Classics teachers as well. More than a fascinating historical document, the book is brimming with valuable pedagogical reflections and practices for the Latin and Greek teacher. Most important, the book reminds teachers of the importance of inspiration and encouraging the heart in educating students, in keeping with the Jesuit value of cura personalis (care of the whole person) in teaching. Jouvancy’s De discendi et docendi ratione (hereafter, De ratione) is, in important respects, a follow-up to the monumental 1599 Ratio studiorum, the foundational ...

Research paper thumbnail of Cicero Philosophico-Politicus: Glory, Friendship, Utopia

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Conserere Sapientiam’, To Engage in Wisdom: The Rhetoric of Philosophical Debate and the Speech of Caecilius in Minucius Felix’s Octavius

New England Classical Journal

Here I will elucidate both the rhetorical and philosophical significance of the introduction to M... more Here I will elucidate both the rhetorical and philosophical significance of the introduction to Minucius Felix’s Octavius—in effect, to give voice to what Minucius Felix hoped to do in having Caecilius and Octavius conserere sapientiam (‘engage in wisdom’). I draw special attention to the introduction to the dialogue because (i) Minucius’ rhetorical care in establishing an appropriate otium (in other words, a locus amoenus) for his dialogue participants has been underappreciated (ii) because Caecilius’ arguments have, in general, been given short-shrift, and, (iii) because the view that the introductory parts should, instead, be read with suspicion has found a recent prominent voice in an influential recent article (Powell 2007).

Research paper thumbnail of Scipio’s Rome and Critias’ Athens: Utopian Mythmaking in Cicero’s De Republica and Plato’s Timaeus

Scholarly debate on the relationship between Cicero’s De republica (On the Republic) and De Legib... more Scholarly debate on the relationship between Cicero’s De republica (On the Republic) and De Legibus (On the Laws) and the thought of Plato tends to focus on the supposed congruities or incongruities of the De republica and De legibus with Plato’s own Republic and Laws. Still, Plato’s discussion of ideal constitutions is not constrained to the Republic and Laws. In this essay I propose that we look to another of Plato’s dialogues for fruitful comparison: the Timaeus-Critias duology. In this essay I bring these two texts into substantive dialogue to illuminate mysterious features of both. Sketched in these complementary passages, I think, is an outline for a particular kind of approach to political theory, one proposed as novel by Cicero’s Laelius, but, as this essay hopes to show, with an interesting forerunner in Plato. I’ve called this approach ‘retrospective ideal political philosophy’ (RIPP). I end my essay with a few prospective theoretical notes on how this approach binds these...

Research paper thumbnail of Cicero Pro Milone (T.J) Keeline. Pp. 381. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Paper £24.99. ISBN: 9781107179738

Journal of Classics Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of Cicero's Catilinarians. D.H. Berry Pp. 288. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Paper £16.99. ISBN: 9780195326475

Journal of Classics Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of Eusebius of Caesarea: The History of the Church. Eusebius (J) Schott (trans). University of California Press: Oakland, CA. 2019. Pp. 552 £14.99 ISBN 978-0-52029-110-2

Journal of Classics Teaching

Research paper thumbnail of Distance-learning with Seneca

Journal of Classics Teaching

On April 6th 2020 Steven Hunt wrote in Ad Familiares about the relative preparedness of Classics ... more On April 6th 2020 Steven Hunt wrote in Ad Familiares about the relative preparedness of Classics for distance-learning in a time of coronavirus (Hunt 2020). He wrote, ‘Classics continues to thrive online, buzzing up and down the wires, zapping through the air, and into countless homes through computer screen, laptop, ipad and smartphone.’ (Hunt 2020). Pointing to over two decades of intentional investment in an online, digital world for Classics and Classics learning in the UK and US, Hunt concludes: ‘So now, with the challenges before us of having to teach remotely using the internet, Latinists are already digital natives: students know how to find the materials, use them efficiently, and learn.’

Research paper thumbnail of Teletherapeia: Ancient Consolation in the Distance Latin Classroom

Journal of Classics Teaching

This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 29 May 2020 and has been updated for the ... more This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 29 May 2020 and has been updated for the Journal of Classics Teaching. The author would like to acknowledge the helpful feedback from the editors at In Medias Res and The Journal of Classics Teaching on earlier drafts of this essay. Their suggestions helped produce a superior piece.

Research paper thumbnail of Sicut Sol Inter Astra: Timely Latin in the Aftermath of the Fire at Notre-Dame

Journal of Classics Teaching

This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 31 May 2019 and has been updated for the ... more This piece originated as an article in In Medias Res on 31 May 2019 and has been updated for the Journal of Classics Teaching. The author would like to acknowledge the helpful feedback from the editors at In Medias Res and The Journal of Classics Teaching on earlier drafts of this essay. Their suggestions helped produce a superior piece.

Research paper thumbnail of Aristotle’s Methodology for Natural Science in Physics 1-2: a New Interpretation

Journal of Ancient Philosophy

In this essay I will argue for an interpretation of the remarks of Physics 1.1 that both resolves... more In this essay I will argue for an interpretation of the remarks of Physics 1.1 that both resolves some of the confusion surrounding the precise nature of methodology described there and shows how those remarks at 184a15-25 serve as important programmatic remarks besides, as they help in the structuring of books 1 and 2 of the Physics. I will argue that “what is clearer and more knowable to us” is what Aristotle goes on to describe in 1.2—namely, that nature exists and that natural things change—his basic starting-point for natural science. This, I shall hope to show, is the kind of “immediate” sense datum which Aristotle thinks must be further analyzed in terms of principles (archai) and then causes (aitia) over the course of Physics books 1 and 2 to lead to knowledge about the natural world.[1] Such an analysis arrives at, as I shall show, a definition (horismos) of nature not initially available from the starting-point just mentioned (i.e., it is in need of further analysis), and ...