Monthly Archives: June 2013
The instrinsic value of the arts
Professor of Psychology Ellen Winner has co-authored a new book that looks at the impact of arts education and its connection to fostering skills for innovation. In Art for Art’s Sake? The Impact of Arts Education, Winner and co-authors Thalia … Continue reading
Summer on the Cape
Novelist Elizabeth Graver, a professor of English at Boston College, will talk about her new book, The End of The Point, at the Falmouth Public Library on June 25 at 7 p.m. The End of the Point is set in … Continue reading
International teachers in American schools
In her new book, Teachers Without Borders?: The Hidden Consequences of International Teachers in U.S. Schools (Teachers College Press), Boston College alumna Alyssa Hadley Dunn presents a case study of four teachers from India who came to the US to teach … Continue reading
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Tagged education, international, muticultural education, urban schools
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“Blessed are the pure in heart”
Boston College alumna Patricia Sodano Ireland, director of theology programs in the division of Graduate and Professional Studies at Saint Joseph’s College in Maine, is the author of the book, Guardian of a Pure Heart: St. Augustine on the Path … Continue reading
The gangs of Guatemala
Associate Professor of History Deborah T. Levenson writes about how war and politics helped shape the gangs of Guatemala in her new book, Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death. A historical study, Adiós Niño examines … Continue reading
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Tagged Guatemala, History Department, Latin America, violence
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Christianity & politics
Associate Professor of Theology Kenneth Himes, OFM is the author of a new book, titled Christianity and the Political Order (Orbis Books). According to the publisher: “[Fr.] Himes examines the relationship between Christianity and politics from the teachings of the … Continue reading
Homecoming
Alumna Jennifer Close has published a new novel, The Smart One (Knopf Doubleday). It’s the story of Weezy Coffey and what happens when her adult children’s various missteps drive them back to their childhood home. Close recently wrote about the … Continue reading
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