Francis Wayland Parker was one of the earliest American educators of national prominence to advocate what has come to be known today as progressive education. He was in total support of the common school concept, helped from the earliest, formal child study association in America, promoted the institution of kindergartens, and stressed the need for a child-centered, correlated curriculum organized around the natural and physical sciences. Through his work in the Quincy, Massachusetts, public schools and at the Cook County (Chicago) Normal School, Parker also made strong contributions to early language arts/reading instruction and methodology. Despite his influences on his contemporaries and on American education, few studies of any nature have been available to illuminate factors influencing Parker himself. There has been no historical study defining influences on Francis Wayland Parker’s philosophy of education as it relates to language arts reading instruction.

A large proportion of the human population, their settlements and socioeconomic activities occur on land directly adjacent to the coastline. The increased demand for coastal leisure and tourism has interfered with natural landscape features and their associated processes. The Cape St Francis/St Francis Bay peninsula located on the southeast coast of South Africa was rapidly developed and transformed from a little fishing village into an urban coastal developed area over a 50-year period (1961-2014). A system that once existed in a state of dynamic or non-equilibrium was interfered with through anthropogenic disturbances, resulting in more frequent and intense natural events, which ranged from floods to debris flows, decreased sand supply and resulting beach erosion. The aim of the project was to identify and map landscape features and changes on the peninsula using an interdisciplinary approach. The triangulated methods of a desktop study using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and media reviews, a crowdsourcing/participatory approach based on interviews, and a one year land surveying period of measurable field based surveys of physical features gave a well balanced view. The research showed that the natural landscape has been altered dramatically by settlement and associated infrastructure development. In particular, the loss of dunefields and the artificial modification of river paths were major impact areas. Beach erosion is a continual issue for the peninsula residents, particularly in St Francis Bay.

An empirical study was undertaken in the basin of the Saint-Francois River, southern Quebec, to determine whether surface water quality could be predicted from watershed parameters. Five water quality variables--nitrate (NO$ sb3$), dissolved, particulate and total phosphorus (DP, PP and TP respectively) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC)--were statistically associated with physiographical and landuse/cover parameters. / Using water quality data collected by MENVIQ from 26 large (26 km$ sp2$-9436 km$ sp2$), forested and agricultural watersheds in summers 1988-91, median concentrations of NO$ sb3$, DP, PP, TP and DOC were found to be significantly correlated with several watershed parameters. Linear regression analyses and scatter plots however, showed little evidence of predictive relationships, owing primarily to gaps in data ranges, influence points and outliers. / Sampling of 24 small headwater catchments (0.3 km$ sp2$-9.5 km$ sp2$) in late summer 1992, 16 of which having no upstream sampling, revealed that median DOC concentration was correlated with both forest cover and agricultural land. No significant correlations were found between the median concentrations of NO$ sb3$, DP, PP and TP and any of the catchment parameters. Linear regression analyses and scatter plots of the DOC relationships with forest cover, then agricultural land were performed but were not found to be suitable for prediction.

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The philosophy of Francis Bacon has an important and often overlooked place in the development of American political thought. John Dewey cites Bacon as the forefather of his own highly influential philosophical school, American pragmatism. I argue that, though Dewey is in many ways correct to look to Bacon as his predecessor, he overlooks or collapses certain crucial tensions in Bacon’s philosophical project. This causes Dewey to misinterpret the political implications of the philosophic project to which he himself is an heir. By exploring the tensions that Bacon maintains, and Dewey collapses, between human knowledge and human power, science and democracy, and progress in the sciences and progress within states, I hope to shed light on the true implications of Bacon’s philosophical project for American political thought. / text

Thesis advisor: Kenneth R. Himes / This project constructs a public theology of Laudato Si' with which Catholics in the United States might shape climate change discourse, policy, and action. Chapter 1 outlines anthropogenic climate change and reviews magisterial Catholic teaching about this issue. Chapter 2 argues that the Christian church should engage with the world through both secular and faith-based language in the forms of public philosophy and public theology. Chapter 3 considers Catholic public theology in the contemporary U.S. Chapter 4 considers LS as a document of public theology and demonstrates how this document both develops Catholic public theology in the social encyclical tradition and is organized according to a modified Pastoral Circle. Chapter 5 analyzes a nationally representative public opinion survey of American adults to discern the likelihood that messages based on LS might move Americans’ climate change opinions more in line with Pope Francis’s ecological vision. Chapter 6 combines these insights with the reflections in Chapter 3 to construct an American Catholic public theology of LS that might help accordingly shape American climate change discourse, policy and action. The project thus combines theological ethics and social science to engage in applied ecological theological ethics and constructively suggest the contents of an evidence-based American Catholic public theology of LS with which the church might advance Pope Francis’s ecological vision. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

Thesis advisor: R. Shep Melnick / This paper analyzes Pope Francis’s view of politics, particularly politics in the United States. Beginning with his speech before a special joint session of Congress on September 24, 2015, this paper explores many of the themes the Pope introduces in this speech, and compares those themes to those in other works he has published since being elected Pontiff in 2013. Then, this paper applies what he has said about contemporary American politics with the analysis of other scholars of American politics. Ultimately, I find that the Pope is very aware of problems in the United States, but hopes to present a positive alternative to address what he identifies as the contemporary world’s ills. / Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science.

John Amos Comenius, the seventeenth century realist, and Francis Wayland Parker, the nineteenth century pragmatic idealist, presented new educational theories and practices. Both men, products of their own times, through their wide learning, great imagination and sympathy with the intellectual and social climate of their day, offered to the world a new outlook on education -- an education focused on the needs and the interests of children. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1967. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Education.

by Chan Yue Shan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-133). / ABSTRACT --- p.i-ii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iii / INTRODUCTION --- p.1-8 / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- THE CONDITIONS OF HONG KONG / Chapter I. --- The Establishment of the Colonial Government --- p.9-13 / Chapter II. --- Nature of the Population --- p.13-16 / Chapter III. --- Lawless Situation --- p.16-24 / Chapter IV. --- Measures Taken to Fight Crime Prior to the Governorship of Davis --- p.24-31 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS --- p.32-38 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- DAVIS' DETERMINATION TO IMPROVE THE STATE OF THE COLONY --- p.39-46 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- DEVICES OF SOCIAL CONTROL / Chapter 1. --- Reforms on the Police Force --- p.47-51 / Chapter 2. --- The Appointment of Chinese Peace Officers: Paouchong and Paoukea --- p.52-59 / Chapter 3. --- Establishment of the Supreme Court --- p.60-63 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- PUNISHMENTS FOR CRIMINALS / Chapter 1. --- Prison Reform --- p.64-68 / Chapter 2. --- Expatriation of Convicts --- p.69-73 / Chapter 3. --- The Enforcement of Capital Punishment --- p.74-77 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX --- MEASURES AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME / Chapter 1. --- suppression of the Triad Society --- p.78-86 / Chapter 2. --- Suppression of Piracy --- p.87-93 / Chapter CHAPTER SEVEN --- REGULATION OF THE MOVEMENTS OF INHABITANTS / Chapter 1. --- The Continuation of Curfew --- p.94-95 / Chapter 2. --- Implementation of Registration as a Police Measure --- p.96-104 / Chapter CHAPTER EIGHT --- DISCUSSION ON DAVIS' MEASURES IN THE MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER --- p.105-113 / CONCLUSION --- p.114-116 / APPENDICES / Appendix 1 --- p.117 / Appendix 2 --- p.118-119 / Appendix 3 --- p.120 / Appendix 4 --- p.121-124 / Appendix 5 --- p.125 / GLOSSARY --- p.126-127 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.128-133

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