1. TEACHING ARGUMENT
Texas Community College Teachers’ Association Conference
March 1-3, 2018
Frisco, TX
Dr. Jodie Nicotra, University of Idaho
at the edge of an abyss
2. “…for always the Eternal Enigma
is there, right on the edges of
our metropolitan bickering,
stretching outward to
interstellar infinity and inward to
the depths of the mind. And in
this staggering disproportion
between man and no-man,
there is no place for purely
human boasts of grandeur, or
for forgetting that men build
their cultures by huddling
together, nervously loquacious,
at the edge of an abyss.”
-Kenneth Burke, Permanence and
Change
10. "I have five children, and have been a pro-active parent for two
decades. The issue of giving immunizations to one's children is a
serious one. I have seen adequate and expansive information
both in favor of and in opposition to, vaccinations. I am fully
aware that common belief is that vaccines do not cause autism.
But that is only one of my concerns. I have chosen not to
vaccinate, even though there is adequate documentation of the
efficacy of the vaccine system. However, because ultimately I do
not trust: the medical industry, the pharmaceutical industry and
really the government at large, I do not immunize. I tolerate the
flack I get for my choices, because of my conviction towards
certain political and (non)religious ideologies. Ultimately, those
things are more fully integrated into my psychology and psyche
and they carry more weight than any article or journal
publication I might read, regardless of its source.”
-(very smart) Science Writing student
11. Two Forms of Reasoning
collective-knowledge-acquisition cultural-identity-protective
12. “Far from increasing the likelihood that
individuals will agree that human activity is
causing climate change, higher science
comprehension just makes the response that a
person gives to a ‘global-warming belief’ item an
even more reliable indicator of who he or she is.”
”Dan Kahan, “Climate-Science Communication and the ‘Measurement Problem’” 12.
