Information technologies used in the workplace, such as videoconferencing and the Internet, have become available to educational institutions as well. When used for distance learning, these technologies can make education more widely available by breaking geographic and time boundaries. But like television and computing before it, distance learning may demand new instructional approaches. Takin…
As a critique of The Bell Curve, this article briefly explores ideas about intelligence, "race," and the relationship of those ideas to the place of Blacks in America's political economy. The analysis examines the role of intellectuals in their respective periods in shaping knowledge about intelligence and race. The eugenics movement, including its leaders, and the relationship of their ideas t…
The globalization of the economy creates new challenges for social work in the arenas of social and economic justice. This article outlines social justice issues related to the debt crisis of the Global South and sweatshops. A presentation of colonial precursors is followed by a detailed examination of these global institutions with an emphasis on the vulnerability, disempowered status, and exp…
Ozan Varol's book, Think Like a Rock Scientist, contends that you can "make giant leaps in work and life" by following his guidance. The rocket scientist, however, has a much easier task than a library manager because rockets follow the laws of gravity while managers must deal with the messy problems of irrational humans. Effective communication is difficult to achieve. Cognitive dissonance and…