The document discusses concepts from philosophers like Foucault, Rorty, and Watts regarding critically examining assumptions and values about schools. It emphasizes developing an "ironic sensibility" by problematizing one's perspectives and engaging in open-minded conversation over establishing certainties. Rorty believes communities should define themselves through a shared curriculum to facilitate common conversations, rather than relying solely on individual preferences or external authorities. The document poses questions about how taking these ideas seriously could impact schooling practices and approaches to knowledge.
Sources of my IdentityIntroduction My personal identity deal.docxrafbolet0
Sources of my Identity
Introduction
My personal identity deals with the philosophical questions that arise about humans by the virtue of being individuals or people. However, this argument contrasts with any questions that entail the virtues of human beings as conscious beings or material objects. Many people will seek to understand their identity by asking the questions of what am I? When did I come to being? What will happen when I die? It is such questions that probe possible other questions that seek to have several answers regarding the indemnity of an individual. The sources of identity will mostly differ differently from one person to another, as they are influenced by a wide range of external factors throughout one’s period of growth(Payne 17).
Human beings have an unchanging need for uniqueness, and quite often, the search for this happens through the use of meaning and symbolism with the help of products and brands such as surroundings, time, and exposure to other variables. The mentioned meanings and symbolisms are at times not necessary as the brands of products, and wares may be inherent making one person to be completely different from the other in terms of behavior, thinking, or reasoning. This augment concedes with that of McCrae and Costa, which suggests that one’s cultural meanings take part in making up for one’s identity, which is the personality (Payne 17). Culture anticipates for use of symbols for identity working outwardly to construct the social world and inwardly to construct self-identity. In this way, personal identity plays a vital role when it comes to dictating one’s inner and outer circumstances. Every human is different from the others as anticipated his or her personality. This can be justified by the way people communicate socially.
The study of the psychology of personal identity has existed as organized entity since 1940s. There have been two major theories of human personality; one was dispositional or trait theory and the other one is person-situational theory. The trait theory did account for the centralist approach and internal constructs with governed behavior in a given or a particular situation derived mainly from internal characteristics of personality. In the west that is the western world, a layman’s understanding of personality is related tothe trait approach, and this laid its basis or roots from the 19th-century liberalism
The trait theory posted broad stable factors, traits, or behavioral dispositions as its fundamental units. Its primary goal was to characterize individuals in terms of a comprehensive nevertheless, preferably and finite small set of stable dispositions that have always remained invariant across situations and that were distinctive for a person determining a wide range of important behavior. In the recent years, the trait theory has been personified in the big five-model of human personality. This model reduced the large numbers of adjectives that described personal ident.
In this presentation, Dr. Avon Hart-Johnson presents strategies and considerations on how to transform a dissertation to a book. Presented 12/29/17 at National Harbor, Walden PhD Residency
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Studying In America
Each pursuit for a dream starts with a conviction that there is a tall tale holding up toward the end. On one day when the daylight filtered through the green leaves on the trees, in my high school years, my American classmate told me tales about his family in the United States, tales about the great house with a swimming pool, and a vineyards that was trotted on with gallant horses back in California. My friend’s depictions of America painted an imaginary wonderland in my head, more like a promised land of orts. At that tender age, my fantasies about America marked the epitome of my brimming dreams about the invaluable opportunity it would be to study in America. Fantasies from my classmate’s depiction of America highlighted the height of my aspirations to attain an education in a foreign culture.
Being the first child among five siblings, my father, a man who held foreign culture at high esteem, made it his sole endeavor to make sure that I secured an American scholarship in one of the American Learning Institutions. My father was particularly interested in learning about foreign culture, considering the fact that he actually studied in England. I grew up, gaining my father’s zeal of learning foreign cultures such as Japanese, Spanish, Italian particularly American, all by myself.
As fate would have it, I got a scholarship in mechanical engineering. This was particularly an added advantage for me, towards a successful stay in the United States. I had a particular interest in the fields of science such as, chemistry, physics, math, anything identified with science. Also, I had general education classes, which was mostly about sociology, psychology and history. I particularly appreciate learning dialects, and truth be told, I contemplate fitting in perfectly in the American Culture.
However, my perspective of the American culture and people seemed to have been inaccurate. What I had once believed to be the land of plenty, was not what it seemed to be from the outside. From the frequent walks I took down the streets on my weekend when I did not have any classes, I realized that not everybody was living a good life here in America, the land of dreams. As time progressed, the occasional sight of a homeless man sitting by the alley corner next to a trolley of junk was not as surprising as it was in the first days. I was at first struck with utter dismay having seen these were American citizens who had no roof and shelter over their heads. Days in the General Studies classes only helped me to understand the American Culture even more. Both at school and in the streets, I saw adult individuals who did not give the slightest care about their parents and their family relations. These observations only made my heart quiver in disappointment, as what I had long considered to be the land of free, was like any other country in the world. It is such distressed feelings ...
1Introduction The Multicultural PersonBoth the nature of what.docxdrennanmicah
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Introduction: The Multicultural Person
Both the nature of what we take to be a self and its expression are inherently cultural (Bhatia & Stam, 2005, p. 419).
Each individual’s many aspects are not fragmented and distanced from one another or hierarchically ordered on behalf of a ruling center but remain in full interconnectedness and communication (Sampson, 1985, p. 1209).
There are a great variety of categories to which we simultaneously belong … Belonging to each one of the membership groups can be quite important, depending on the particular context … the importance of one identity need not obliterate the importance of others (Sen, 2006, p. 19).
Each of us is a multicultural human being. This simple and basic proposition, most descriptive of those of us who live in contemporary heterogeneous societies, constitutes the basic (though complex) theme of this book. Within its pages the reader will find attempts to explain, illustrate and argue for the value of this assertion. A major stimulus for pursuit of this is the belief that the study and understanding of behavior, when guided by the premise of individual multiculturalism, will increase the authenticity of our knowledge and the reliability of our predictions. This, in turn, should enhance the relevance and efficacy of the applications of our work to significant life situations – in the interest of advancing human welfare.
Multicultural Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology
This book needs to be distinguished from those that are in the tradition of cross-cultural psychology or mainstream multicultural psychology. The latter, as defined by Mio, Barker-Hackett, and Tumambing (2006, p. 32) “is the systematic study of all aspects of human behavior as it occurs in settings where people of different backgrounds encounter one another.” Multicultural psychologists prefer a salad bowl rather than a melting pot as metaphorical image, viewing the United States, for example, as a society in which groups maintain their distinctiveness (Moodley & Curling, 2006). They stress and argue for the necessary development of multicultural competence by psychologists and others. Such competence includes understanding of your own culture, respect for other cultures, and acquiring appropriate culturally sensitive interpersonal skills. To this end, professional guidelines have been proposed (and adopted) for education, training, and practice. Such guidelines are approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) for practice with persons of color (APA, 2003), practice with sexual minorities (APA, 2000), and practice with girls and women (APA, 2007).
The emphases in cross-cultural psychology are two-fold: first, to understand and appreciate the relationships among cultural factors and human functioning (Wallace, 2006); and second, to compare world cultures as well as subcultures within a single society. Cultures are compared on values, world-views, dominant practices, beliefs, and structures in order to re.
This tediously sourced and highly detailed work argues for a large-scale change in human culture, specifically in the context of economic practice. The dominant theme is that the current socioeconomic system governing the world at this time has severe structural flaws, born out of primitive economic and sociological assumptions originating in our early history, where the inherent severity of these flaws went largely unnoticed.
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Sources of my IdentityIntroduction My personal identity deal.docxrafbolet0
Sources of my Identity
Introduction
My personal identity deals with the philosophical questions that arise about humans by the virtue of being individuals or people. However, this argument contrasts with any questions that entail the virtues of human beings as conscious beings or material objects. Many people will seek to understand their identity by asking the questions of what am I? When did I come to being? What will happen when I die? It is such questions that probe possible other questions that seek to have several answers regarding the indemnity of an individual. The sources of identity will mostly differ differently from one person to another, as they are influenced by a wide range of external factors throughout one’s period of growth(Payne 17).
Human beings have an unchanging need for uniqueness, and quite often, the search for this happens through the use of meaning and symbolism with the help of products and brands such as surroundings, time, and exposure to other variables. The mentioned meanings and symbolisms are at times not necessary as the brands of products, and wares may be inherent making one person to be completely different from the other in terms of behavior, thinking, or reasoning. This augment concedes with that of McCrae and Costa, which suggests that one’s cultural meanings take part in making up for one’s identity, which is the personality (Payne 17). Culture anticipates for use of symbols for identity working outwardly to construct the social world and inwardly to construct self-identity. In this way, personal identity plays a vital role when it comes to dictating one’s inner and outer circumstances. Every human is different from the others as anticipated his or her personality. This can be justified by the way people communicate socially.
The study of the psychology of personal identity has existed as organized entity since 1940s. There have been two major theories of human personality; one was dispositional or trait theory and the other one is person-situational theory. The trait theory did account for the centralist approach and internal constructs with governed behavior in a given or a particular situation derived mainly from internal characteristics of personality. In the west that is the western world, a layman’s understanding of personality is related tothe trait approach, and this laid its basis or roots from the 19th-century liberalism
The trait theory posted broad stable factors, traits, or behavioral dispositions as its fundamental units. Its primary goal was to characterize individuals in terms of a comprehensive nevertheless, preferably and finite small set of stable dispositions that have always remained invariant across situations and that were distinctive for a person determining a wide range of important behavior. In the recent years, the trait theory has been personified in the big five-model of human personality. This model reduced the large numbers of adjectives that described personal ident.
In this presentation, Dr. Avon Hart-Johnson presents strategies and considerations on how to transform a dissertation to a book. Presented 12/29/17 at National Harbor, Walden PhD Residency
Surname 2
Name
Instructor’s Name
Class information
June 5, 2015
Studying In America
Each pursuit for a dream starts with a conviction that there is a tall tale holding up toward the end. On one day when the daylight filtered through the green leaves on the trees, in my high school years, my American classmate told me tales about his family in the United States, tales about the great house with a swimming pool, and a vineyards that was trotted on with gallant horses back in California. My friend’s depictions of America painted an imaginary wonderland in my head, more like a promised land of orts. At that tender age, my fantasies about America marked the epitome of my brimming dreams about the invaluable opportunity it would be to study in America. Fantasies from my classmate’s depiction of America highlighted the height of my aspirations to attain an education in a foreign culture.
Being the first child among five siblings, my father, a man who held foreign culture at high esteem, made it his sole endeavor to make sure that I secured an American scholarship in one of the American Learning Institutions. My father was particularly interested in learning about foreign culture, considering the fact that he actually studied in England. I grew up, gaining my father’s zeal of learning foreign cultures such as Japanese, Spanish, Italian particularly American, all by myself.
As fate would have it, I got a scholarship in mechanical engineering. This was particularly an added advantage for me, towards a successful stay in the United States. I had a particular interest in the fields of science such as, chemistry, physics, math, anything identified with science. Also, I had general education classes, which was mostly about sociology, psychology and history. I particularly appreciate learning dialects, and truth be told, I contemplate fitting in perfectly in the American Culture.
However, my perspective of the American culture and people seemed to have been inaccurate. What I had once believed to be the land of plenty, was not what it seemed to be from the outside. From the frequent walks I took down the streets on my weekend when I did not have any classes, I realized that not everybody was living a good life here in America, the land of dreams. As time progressed, the occasional sight of a homeless man sitting by the alley corner next to a trolley of junk was not as surprising as it was in the first days. I was at first struck with utter dismay having seen these were American citizens who had no roof and shelter over their heads. Days in the General Studies classes only helped me to understand the American Culture even more. Both at school and in the streets, I saw adult individuals who did not give the slightest care about their parents and their family relations. These observations only made my heart quiver in disappointment, as what I had long considered to be the land of free, was like any other country in the world. It is such distressed feelings ...
1Introduction The Multicultural PersonBoth the nature of what.docxdrennanmicah
1
Introduction: The Multicultural Person
Both the nature of what we take to be a self and its expression are inherently cultural (Bhatia & Stam, 2005, p. 419).
Each individual’s many aspects are not fragmented and distanced from one another or hierarchically ordered on behalf of a ruling center but remain in full interconnectedness and communication (Sampson, 1985, p. 1209).
There are a great variety of categories to which we simultaneously belong … Belonging to each one of the membership groups can be quite important, depending on the particular context … the importance of one identity need not obliterate the importance of others (Sen, 2006, p. 19).
Each of us is a multicultural human being. This simple and basic proposition, most descriptive of those of us who live in contemporary heterogeneous societies, constitutes the basic (though complex) theme of this book. Within its pages the reader will find attempts to explain, illustrate and argue for the value of this assertion. A major stimulus for pursuit of this is the belief that the study and understanding of behavior, when guided by the premise of individual multiculturalism, will increase the authenticity of our knowledge and the reliability of our predictions. This, in turn, should enhance the relevance and efficacy of the applications of our work to significant life situations – in the interest of advancing human welfare.
Multicultural Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology
This book needs to be distinguished from those that are in the tradition of cross-cultural psychology or mainstream multicultural psychology. The latter, as defined by Mio, Barker-Hackett, and Tumambing (2006, p. 32) “is the systematic study of all aspects of human behavior as it occurs in settings where people of different backgrounds encounter one another.” Multicultural psychologists prefer a salad bowl rather than a melting pot as metaphorical image, viewing the United States, for example, as a society in which groups maintain their distinctiveness (Moodley & Curling, 2006). They stress and argue for the necessary development of multicultural competence by psychologists and others. Such competence includes understanding of your own culture, respect for other cultures, and acquiring appropriate culturally sensitive interpersonal skills. To this end, professional guidelines have been proposed (and adopted) for education, training, and practice. Such guidelines are approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) for practice with persons of color (APA, 2003), practice with sexual minorities (APA, 2000), and practice with girls and women (APA, 2007).
The emphases in cross-cultural psychology are two-fold: first, to understand and appreciate the relationships among cultural factors and human functioning (Wallace, 2006); and second, to compare world cultures as well as subcultures within a single society. Cultures are compared on values, world-views, dominant practices, beliefs, and structures in order to re.
This tediously sourced and highly detailed work argues for a large-scale change in human culture, specifically in the context of economic practice. The dominant theme is that the current socioeconomic system governing the world at this time has severe structural flaws, born out of primitive economic and sociological assumptions originating in our early history, where the inherent severity of these flaws went largely unnoticed.
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This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
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Rorty and final vocabularies
1. Prespared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa Connecting from last time…PED 3102 in a nutshell “Because schools have the potential to be much better places, for both teachers and students, we regard it as very important for everyone involved with education to understand the way in which our schools are organized and operated so that they can ask questions about, and propose changes to, current practices.” - Jon Young & Benjamin Levin, Understanding Canadian Schools, Reader p.10
2. Prespared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa Focault’s Epistemological Conundrum “People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what they do [their doing] does.” -Michel Foucault, Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Dreyfus & Rabinow (Eds.), p. 187
3. The point of critical understanding In PED 3102 we continuously urge you to first surface and then examine your existing assumptions, beliefs, and values about schools and schooling so that you will not simply reproduce what now exists. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
4. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa Culture and Final Vocabularies “[A]ll vocabularies, even those which contain the words which we take most seriously, the ones most essential to our self-descriptions – are human creations, tools for the creation of such other human artifacts as poems, utopian societies, scientific theories, and future generations.” -Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity, p. 53
5. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa “final vocabularies” “All human beings carry about a set of words which they employ to justify their actions, their beliefs, and their lives…They are the words in which we tell, sometimes prospectively and sometimes retrospectively, the story of our lives. I shall call these words a person’s “final vocabulary.” - Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity, p. 73
6. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa “When we are talking about the order and structure of the world, we are talking about the order of our grids.” -Alan W. Watts, Psychotherapy East and West Grids = Final Vocabularies
7. Seeing beyond our grids Learning to problematize our final vocabularies through the cultivation of the ironic sensibility. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
8. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa “I shall define an ‘ironist’ as someone who fulfills three conditions: (1) She has radical and continuing doubts about the final vocabulary she currently uses, because she has been impressed by other vocabularies, vocabularies taken as final by people or books she has encountered;
9. Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa (2) She realizes that argument phrased in her present vocabulary can neither underwrite nor dissolve these doubts;
10. (3) Insofar as she philosophizes about her situation, she does not think that her vocabulary is closer to reality than others, that it is in touch with a power not herself. “ - Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity, p. 73-5 Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
11. Irony and Agency “[T]he fact that Newton's vocabulary lets us predict the world more easily than Aristotle's does not mean that the world speaks Newtonian. The world does not speak. Only we do.” -Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity, p. 6 Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
12. The Aim of Irony:Conversation Over Certainty Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
13. Michael Oakeshottfrom Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays “In conversation, ’facts’ appear only to be resolved once more into the possibilities from which they were made; ‘certainties’ are shown to be combustible, not by being brought in contact with other ‘certainties’ or with doubts, but by being kindled by the presence of ideas of another order; approximations are revealed between notions normally remote from one another . . . Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
14. Conversation & Diversity “Conversation is not an enterprise designed to yield an extrinsic profit, a contest where a winner gets a prize, nor is it an activity of exegesis; it is an unrehearsed intellectual adventure . . . . Properly speaking, it is impossible in the absence of a diversity of voices: in it different universes of discourse meet, acknowledge each other and enjoy an oblique relationship which neither requires nor forecasts their being assimilated to one another.” (pp. 177-179; emphasis added) Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
15. Knowledge and Community(neither narcissism nor subjugation) “[T]here is a middle way between reliance on a God-surrogate and on one’s individual preferences – namely, reliance on the common sense of the community to which one belongs.” -Richard Rorty, “Hermeneutics, General Studies, and Teaching,” p. 527 Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
16. “[It] does not greatly matter what the core curriculum is as long as there is one – as long as each community defines itself by adopting one…What matters is that there be some things they all have read and can do, some common subject of conversation…To pick a core curriculum is, therefore, to pick a community – or, better, to decide what sort of community one would like to see come into being.” -Rorty, “Hermeneutics, General Studies, and Teaching,” pp. 527 & 532-3 Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
17. Three Questions: Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa 1. What are the implications of Rorty’svalorization of curriculum as a conversation disciplined and enriched by community? 2. If we take Rorty seriously, what would change in our current schooling practices? What might remain the same? Why? 3. How might our approaches to knowing self, other, and world change?
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