Parkland College

About: Parkland College is a education organization based out in Champaign, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Sinkhole. The organization has 90 authors who have published 114 publications receiving 857 citations.

Roger J. Boscovich and Friedrich Nietzsche: A Re-Examination

Abstract: Though almost entirely overlooked, the influence of Roger Joseph Boscovich1 on Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought began early in Nietzsche’s years at Basel and lasted until his mental eclipse in early 1889. One would certainly include Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, Jacob Burckhardt, Benedict de Spinoza, David Friedrich Strauss, Blaise Pascal, and the French moral psychologist Paul Ree among those most often named as dominant figures in Friedrich Nietzsche’s intellectual development: Roger Joseph Boscovich plays a role of comparable importance to any of them, however, for his theory of natural philosophy supplies the basis for Nietzsche’s theory of the will to power. Nietzsche’s interest in Roger Joseph Boscovich survived the eventful Basel years, even as the former overcame strong influences from Wagner, Schopenhauer and others. Soon Nietzsche discovered another “predecessor,” Benedict de Spinoza. Thus, over the years, Boscovich and Spinoza became increasingly important to Nietzsche as intellectual forerunners.

Work-Based Learning: Finding a New Niche.

Abstract: This article examines some of what is known about work-based learning and describes how one community college has developed a new apprenticeship program in manufacturing technology. The author compares the outcomes of this local initiative with the findings of a national study of work-based learning conducted in 10 vocational programs in eight community colleges in the United States. The research identified a number of success factors in exemplary programs and the case study demonstrates how administrators and faculty have been informed by research as they expand their work-based learning provision.

Women rising in resistance: A direct action network

Abstract: This article describes the actions of the Grassroots Group of Second Class Citizens in the ERA campaign in Illinois in 1982 and the formation and activities of Women Rising in Resistance, a network of feminists engaged in direct action. It discusses some obstacles to women's direct action and the importance of education concerning its history and effectiveness.