Study & Research Education

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Study & Research Education

This Study Guide consists of approximately 176 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Education.
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1. Christina Hoff Sommers maintains that educators should use literature and philosophy to teach uncontroversial ethical values such as integrity, self-control, and sacrifice. How do you think David R. Carlin would respond to Sommers’s suggestions? Whose argument do you agree with, and why"

2. Compare the viewpoint of Ann Donnelly with the one written by Tom Peters, Jim Allison, and Susan Batte. For each viewpoint, list the arguments that are based on logical reasoning and those that contain appeals to emotion. In your opinion, which of these authors’ arguments is more grounded in logic and which uses more emotional appeals? Defend your answer, using examples from the viewpoints.

3. Robert E. Kofahl contends that creationism should be given “equal time” with evolutionary theory in science curricula. Eugenie Scott argues that creationism has no place in science courses. Kofahl is on the staff of the...

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