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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (4): 675–691.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and as reconceptualizations of the practice of philosophy. In particular, Foucault’s late work is read as the attempt to construct or reconstruct a sense of the vocation of philosophy. The philosophical vocation developed by Foucault is one concerned with the intensification of experience within the subject, conceived...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 January 1980
...Peter W. Graham George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation . By Mintz Alan . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1978 . Pp. 193 . $11.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 118 The South Atlantic Quarterly of Faulkner have known that from the beginning; so...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (4): 701–719.
Published: 01 October 2012
...T. E. Woronov Working-class youth enrolled in China’s urban vocational schools spend years hanging out and sleeping through their classes. Rather than condemning this as a failure of the students’ ability or the schools’ pedagogy, this essay argues that attending vocational school is a form...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1920) 19 (3): 249–257.
Published: 01 July 1920
...Ezekiel J. Londow Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 Advantages of Cooperative Education Ezekiel J. Londow Federal Board for Vocational Education. What industrial education is and why it is necessary are not academic questions today. The money which has been appropriated out...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (4): 779–788.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of postcritique, including surface reading and thin description. This essay suggests that postcritique, and all that it involves, contributes to the radical dismantling of higher education caused by rampant neoliberalism. The vocation of ideology critique and of Marxist criticism is, this essay contends, the most...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1942) 41 (4): 425–436.
Published: 01 October 1942
... for military service, and emphasis on the military aspects of culture, fit into the foregoing pattern regarding sex status. Hence from the general standpoint of Democracy and the Employment of Women status, without regard to vocations, much in the history and tradition of Western society carries...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1994) 93 (3): 711–715.
Published: 01 July 1994
... into stories, wrote in my notebook about my hatred and my love. That my father seemed to support me in my vocation and my mother seemed to think of my vocation as secondary to living didn t occur to me. When my poems and stories appeared in the literary magazine of the college I attended, the Jesuit Boston...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1918) 17 (4): 265–289.
Published: 01 October 1918
... training. This point is of great im­ portance. In the early months of the war in Great Britain it was not made clear, and many disabled men refused to take vocational training fearing that it would result in a decrease of the amount of their pension. On the administrative side it has been found advisable...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 January 1980
... detailed analysis) or the literary subgenre he identifies, Mr. Mintz centers his study on the Victorian idea of vocation. Work, for the nineteenth century, had no single, simple meaning. Variously offering self-real­ ization, self-negation, and self-transcendence, it was both man s way of making...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1912) 11 (2): 116–127.
Published: 01 April 1912
... of the South. Anomalous as it may seem, this educational renascence which has swept the southern states bids fair to cripple seriously south­ ern colleges. The emphasis excellent in its way now being placed upon vocational training in the schools is threatening in a threefold way the efficiency of the college...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1939) 38 (4): 403–415.
Published: 01 October 1939
... of Instruction in Commercial Skill Subjects, Principles and Practices in Vocational Guidance, The Teaching of Mathematics. The University of Chicago is even more deeply impregnated 406 The South Atlantic Quarterly with vocationalism. It has a whole professional school devoted to library science and another...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 July 1989
..., more than what he writes about himself and these artistic acquaintances, Hemingway s act of vocational reassertion constitutes the primary subject of A Moveable Feast. If nothing else, his work unconsciously tracks his literary as well as physical and psychological decline, and expresses his nostal­...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1912) 11 (2): 158–169.
Published: 01 April 1912
..., secondary, and college, be rewritten so as to vocationalize and socialize education. In the high school it is rapidly placing domestic economy, manual training, commer­ cial subjects, normal training, and agriculture. In addition sepa­ rate trades and agricultural high schools are being established. Union...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1916) 15 (2): 129–141.
Published: 01 April 1916
... of vocational training. Then, instead of appointing an assist­ ant superintendent for that field alone, as the Association urg­ ed, the Board invited, for a year, the experiment and advice of two visiting experts. Their recommendations were discounted in advance, their experiments were hampered in various ways...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1943) 42 (1): 72–77.
Published: 01 January 1943
..., dean, or professor gave a chance word of advice to a student which of course rarely went to the real source of his difficulty. Recently in many colleges vocational and personality advice has been given, in varying degrees, to all the students. But, on the one hand, such service has not been integrated...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1966) 65 (4): 471–490.
Published: 01 October 1966
.... The Germans had left education largely to the missionaries, who were primarily concerned with evangelization, and much of the schooling was purely catechetical. Two other types had developed, however. The missionaries had devoted very considerable energy to vocational or craft education,3 and the sons...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1921) 20 (4): 323–329.
Published: 01 October 1921
... are asking that the colleges become but prepara­ tory institutions, relating their curricula specifically to the practical matters of medicine, law, business, and theology, and thus become more or less vocational in their main intention. This invasion of the college by the professional schools...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1952) 51 (2): 316–318.
Published: 01 April 1952
... seems to be the best method of preventing such rebellion. The desire for independence in an adolescent is usually accompanied by fear of the very independence which he seeks, thus resulting in wilful and sometimes foolish behavior. An adolescent ought to be concerned about his choice of vocation. He...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (3): 340–347.
Published: 01 July 1951
... catastrophes as economic depressions, which no one very well understands and which no one person can forestall. In a society that reaches a high level of social and vocational complexity many simple discoveries have already been made. Fur­ ther discoveries become increasingly difficult, involving the mastery...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 1980
... gether, possibly not shared a bed indoors. And so on. In short, Mr. Kinney s book makes Faulkner more difficult even than he is, and, like a great many other works about Faulkner, be­ comes as much a stumbling block as an aid. EMORY UNIVERSITY FLOYD C. WATKINS George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation...