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The Uncomfortable Truth about Violence, Entertainment and Violent Crime in Society.
by Lawrence Burke Three weeks after the United States of America was overwhelmed with grief at the murderous rage of a 20 year old man who went on killing spree ending the lives of 26 people, including 20 children in… Continue reading
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Questions arising from the Process of Schooling and Societal Violence
by Lawrence Burke On Tuesday 2nd October 2006, a 32 year old man held hostage a group of young students between the ages of 6 and 13 at a small rural Amish school in Pennsylvania, and later executed 3 girls… Continue reading
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In Defense of Humor in an Age of Blame, Revenge and Scapegoating
by Lawrence Burke Fawlty Towers, the British sitcom, which aired in the United Kingdom and its former dominions between 1975-1979 provides an insight into the psyche of British Humor. Fawlty Towers is essentially class driven, culturally misogynistic and racist as… Continue reading
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Education Technology and Mental & Physical Health Disorders
by Lawrence Burke The relationship between internet usage and learning through a computer or mobile device is elementary. While there may be differentiation in the assignments or tasks undertaken (personal as opposed to specialized) the media interface is identical. For… Continue reading
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Cardinal Carlo Martini: Two Clear Voices of Moral Reasoning in an Age of Deceit and Denial.
by Lawrence Burke The death on August 31st of the Roman Catholic Cardinal Carlo Martini may have passed unnoticed in the largely secular world of quick buy and sell materialism. But, it deserves significant attention because the late Cardinal was… Continue reading
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Is the Death of Neil Armstrong also the Death of Conspiracy Theories claiming the Moon Landings were a Hoax?
by Lawrence Burke I was sorry to hear of the death of Neil Armstrong. I know he was 82; and some would say that’s a good age and innings in life; yet for me anyone’s death while eventually inevitable is a… Continue reading
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Finding a balance in the Science-Religion debate in school curricula.
by Lawrence Burke “I’m a post-modernist”, claimed the graduating high school student in his Theory of Knowledge paper, “and I believe that soon we will be able to teleport ourselves around the universe…and there is no God as science has… Continue reading
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International Education & Change in the Arab World
by Lawrence Burke In his definitive novel about a quest for meaning from within the Arab World, Naguib Mahfouz (Mahfouz, 1992) chronicles the journey of Ibn Fattouma (Qindil Muhammad al-Innabi) as he leaves his home on a search for an… Continue reading
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Spontaneity and Improvisation in the Classroom
by Lawrence Burke In the 1980s film Dead Poets Society an English teacher John Keating (Robin Williams), inspires his students to change their lives of conformity and become spontaneous, creative individuals who should seize the day (carpe diem). It’s a… Continue reading
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Suggestions on how the international education community can prevent school based homophobia and homophobic bullying and harassment.
by Lawrence Burke On February 12, 2008, 15-year-old Lawrence King an eighth grade student at the E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California, was shot in the head for being gay. He died several days later. His assailant, another male student,… Continue reading
The LB Chronicles by Lawrence Burke, Ed.D 