Stories Of Hope Research Articles

Stories of Hope: a response to the ‘psychology of despair’

Summary This paper begins by considering some of the dilemmas and complexities of living in post‐modern times and the particular problems that this poses for those teaching about environmental and global issues. It then identifies the crucial importance of hope in periods of turbulent change and describes a research project designed to investigate the sources of hope and inspiration that such educators draw on. In this the natural environment emerges both as a cause for concern and also as one of many vital sources of hope. Finally, comments are made on some of the implications of this research for teaching and learning and the need for educators themselves to identify a pedagogy of hope.

After 1989: Morals, Revolution and Civil Society

Preface - OPENING WALLS - Must Revolutions Fail? - The Open Society and its Fears - Citizens in Search of Meaning - THE GOOD SOCIETY - The Good Society - Morality, Institutions and Civil Society - Why Excellence Matters - Prosperity, Civility and Liberty. Can We Square the Circle? - UNDERSTANDING CHANGE - The Democratic Revolution, or the Uses of the Science of Politics - Who Makes History? On the Entanglements of Economics and Politics - Whither Social Sciences? - The Public Responsibility of Intellectuals - BRITAIN, GERMANY AND EUROPE - Berlin for Example: From Zero Hour to Civil Society - Democracy in Germany: An Anglo-German Perspective - Europe, Unity and Diversity - From Europe to Europe. A Story of Hope, Trial and Error - Acknowledgements - Index

The Least of These My Brethren: A Doctor's Story of Hope and Miracles on an Inner-City AIDS Ward

As I read this memoir of a doctor's work on an AIDS ward in an inner-city Catholic hospital, I was reminded of a recent newspaper article about a 46-year-old physician who had given up his practice to become a Roman Catholic priest. When asked why, he replied that the spiritual needs of his patients required his attention more than their medical problems. Perhaps so. David Loxterkamp, a family physician in rural Maine, writes about a patient who came to his office to tell him, in the midst of a hectic day, about her unhappy childhood at the hand of an unloving mother. "Is there something you want from me, Mirabelle?" the doctor asked. "Why did you tell me this today?" "Because the priest is out of town and somebody needed to know," she answered.¹ As its title suggests, Daniel Baxter's story invites comparison to the spiritual and medical

EPA's atmospheric P2 division succeeds with voluntary programs

Skeptics charge that voluntary P2 programs are just “feel good” exercises. But the pollution reductions being chalked up by EPA's voluntary atmospheric P2 programs tell a more hopeful story.

EPA's atmospheric P2 division succeeds with voluntary programs

Skeptics charge that voluntary P2 programs are just “feel good” exercises. But the pollution reductions being chalked up by EPA's voluntary atmospheric P2 programs tell a more hopeful story.

Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture

In the 1960s, the cooperative networks of food stores, restaurants, bakeries, bookstores, and housing alternatives were part counterculture, part social experiment, part economic utopia, and part revolutionary political statement. The co-ops gave activists a place where they could both express themselves and accomplish at least some small-scale changes. By the mid-1970s, dozens of food co-ops and other consumer- and worker-owned enterprises were operating throughout the Twin Cities, and an alternative economic network--with a Peoples' Warehouse at its hub--was beginning to transform the economic landscape of the metropolitan Minneapolis-St. Paul area. However, these co-op activists could not always agree among themselves on their goals. Craig Cox, a journalist who was active in the co-op movement, here provides the first book to look at food co-ops during the 1960s and 1970s. He presents a dramatic story of hope and conflict within the Minneapolis network, one of the largest co-op structures in the country. His view from the front of the Co-op War that ensued between those who wanted personal liberation through the movement and those who wanted a working-class revolution challenges us to re-think possibilities for social and political change. Cox provides not a cynical portrait of sixties idealism, but a moving insight into an era when anything seemed possible. Craig Cox is editor of Business Ethics, a national bimonthly magazine that covers socially responsible business. He has written for a variety of local, regional, and national publications.

The health left in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

To go back to a period more than five decades ago to talk about the health left is to enter not just another time, but another world. Between the Great Depression and the postwar period, challenging and contradictory social, political, and professional developments were brought to the surface in U.S. life. The health left shared in the opportunities and confusion, enriching the American spirit and participating in both the pleasures and the pain. The 1930s saw economic depression, wars, the birth of fascism, and fears of social collapse. In medicine, despite sporadic scientific advances, the social response was remote and narrow. But social activism motivated medical students and medical practitioners. The 1940s marked a change in both attitudes and values. The left was divided, and bitter factionalism stymied cooperative action. Participation in the war against fascism promoted solidarity, despite the sadness of the evidence of brutality and lack of humanity. The 1950s are sometimes considered regressive, but seeds germinated as the complexity of medical life engendered new approaches to meeting sociomedical needs. As we entered the 1960s a different and more hopeful story unfolded as the rebellions of the poor, blacks, and women brought about a new era of social action.

Book Reviews: KARNES, F. A., & MARQUARDT, R. G. (1991). Gifted Children and The Law: Mediation, Due Process and Court Cases. Dayton, OH: Ohio Psychology Publishing Company, $15.00, 206 pp. KARNES, F. A., & MARQUARDT, R. G. (1991). Gifted Children and Legal Issues in Education: Parents' Stories of Hope. Dayton, OH: Ohio Psychology Publishing Company, $15.00, 191 pp

Book Reviews: KARNES, F. A., & MARQUARDT, R. G. (1991). Gifted Children and The Law: Mediation, Due Process and Court Cases. Dayton, OH: Ohio Psychology Publishing Company, $15.00, 206 pp. KARNES, F. A., & MARQUARDT, R. G. (1991). Gifted Children and Legal Issues in Education: Parents' Stories of Hope. Dayton, OH: Ohio Psychology Publishing Company, $15.00, 191 pp

Book Review: My journey into Alzheimer's disease: A story of hope

Book Review: My journey into Alzheimer's disease: A story of hope

Yanqui, Come Back! The Story of HOPE in Peru

Yanqui, Come Back! The Story of HOPE in Peru

Ridgely Torrence, The Story of John Hope

Ridgely Torrence, <i>The Story of John Hope</i>