This presentation was made at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology conference in Norfolk, VA in 2018. It provides an introduction to a course designed to reduce violence in the lives of children. It also explores the roots of a pedagogy designed to link student experiences as children with their learning of social science of child maltreatment following the… Read more →
Category: Human Dignity and Childhood
Enlightened Witness: Reasserting Humanity in the Face of Violence at the Beginning of the 21st Century – 2004 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Abstract This paper builds on the foundational work of two great humanists who provide transformative lessons from confrontations with violence: Elie Wiesel who confronts the death camps of Nazi Germany and Alice Miller who confronts the ‘poisonous pedagogy’ of childhood discipline. On this foundation, we explore ways to incorporate these humanizing processes and transformative lessons for our students into three… Read more →
Peace Education and Childhood: Helping Adults Connect with their Childhoods to Connect with Children – 2015 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Peace studies and peace education are multifaceted processes focusing on diverse audiences from children in elementary grades to those involved in political negotiations at the highest levels. This paper addresses the foundational importance of including conflict embedded in adult-child relationships in peace education.It conceptually grounds assignments for university level courses designed to teach concepts linked to peace education through the… Read more →
Comparative Analysis of US and Human Rights Approach to Corporal Punishment Law – 2005 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Human Dignity and Childhood: Operationalizing a Human Rights Concept (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko) 2005
This is an exploratory study of perceptions of human dignity in childhood as recalled by young adults. Our goal is to discover the range of dimensions, sources and experiences, both those that supported and violated, of the concept of human dignity. This research, drawing on responses from over two hundred university students, may help to develop a language with which… Read more →
Raising Public Awareness through Discussions of Childhood Experiences with Human Dignity – 2019
This Workshop was presented at the Prevent Child Abuse American Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 18, 2019. THe workshop was designed to help participants see the importance of discussions of their own childhood experiences where they felt their human dignity was supported and violated by adults in their lives. Read more →
Adults Remember Childhood Experiences with Human Dignity
Stories of Human Dignity Read at 2019 Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Workshop December 5-6 New York City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th81Bih41PU&feature=youtu.be Preplanned Dignilogue 2 Can we Teach Human Dignity? Lucien X. Lombardo Helping Adults Becoming Better Ancestors through Discussions of Human Dignity and Childhood: Connecting with our Families and Our Past! Human Dignity is “inherent” (something we all have), but our sense of… Read more →
Call for Submissions:
Adults Remember Childhood Experiences with Human Dignity FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE THIS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to students, friends and everyone who had a childhood! As children we all experience many positive and negative feelings from our interactions with the adult world. Somehow when we become adults and we interact with children we often forget the feelings and meanings… Read more →