requires a normative frame of reference. Democracy, understood as not only a political system but more fundamentally as a way of life grounded in specific values and principles, provides a powerful point of reference. At the heart of democracy is the value of liberty, understood as self-determination. Self-determination requires that there should be careful reflection upon and rational deliberation concerning social values and, in turn, the imperatives of justice that inform the purposes and practices
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deeper understanding of their values, philosophy of life and behaviors, and how these in turn impact social work practice. The course adopts an active-learning and experiential approach. Assessment: 100% coursework. 5. Course Objectives: 1. To increase the reflexivity of the students 2. To enhance the development of self-understanding of the students in relation to their physical sensitivity, perspectives towards intimacy and loss, choices in life, and the value orientation towards broader social issues
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28th, 2014 M2 Linear Reflection & Report When a person looks in the mirror, they see a reflection of themselves. Reflections in math often involve us flipping something over a line called the line of reflection. We can create mirror images of certain figures by reflecting them over a given line. It’s so amazing to use math in a reflection of our everyday lives. As a child, we think that math is pointless and why are we learning it? We think that we’ll never use it in life. But as i have grown
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automatically on events in our personal life that we do or don’t want to happen again yet we find it harder to do it in our professional lives. The idea of the need for reflection goes back to the time of Socrates who claimed that the unexamined life was not worth living. More recently however, the idea of reflection in learning was radical in the times of traditional educational institutions. John Dewey as early as the 1930’s wrote and advocated the need for reflection in learning. Dewey, the father of
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Reflection is a necessary component of everyday life, as well as the growth an individual makes within their profession. This concept remains true for teachers who, due to the particular changes they must make in order to meet the fluctuating needs of both their students and society, are perpetually connected to reflection. Beginning with John Dewey, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, numerous scholars have articulated their viewpoints concerning the positive and negatives
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Reflection Paper 1 Reflection Paper Reflection Paper 2 Overall Impression of Book: I feel that Anne Fadiman narrated the story of Lia Lee’s and her family’s life in intimate and tragic detail. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a poignant depiction of the struggle between loving parents, hard-working medical professionals, and a very precious child caught in the middle of a tug-of-war. Ms. Fadiman very distinctly illustrates how the collision
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Proprioceptive Writing In Writing the Mind Alive, the authors assert that “[i]f you practice Proprioceptive Writing, you’ll develop an awareness of the sound of your thinking. You’ll begin to imagine your thoughts as a persona with a voice” (Metcalf & Simon 16). Although Proprioceptive Writing should provide some benefit to everyone who uses the writing practice as taught in Writing the Mind Alive, the assertion that it will result in your thoughts becoming a persona with a voice is not universal
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hindsight and reflection functions as a narrative technique that helps to highlight the self-discovery made on the journey. Through the text’s subtitle ‘Notes on a Latin American Journey’ and Guevera’s acknowledgement of his limitations ‘This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic’ allows the relationship between the composer and the reader to be truthful and open from the beginning. The catalyst for Che’s discovery is the tyranny and arrangement of his ‘bitch of life’ that was
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Nakai Sinohui Evaluation The difference between appearance and reality plays a huge part of how we evaluate life. Many things take advantage of this difference for survival in the wild, for food, and for domination of new territory. Around World War II era the United Stated sent a battalion of soldiers, tanks and Humvees to breech Hitler’s territory. As his men focused all of their weapons and manpower on this 26th Platoon another battalion snuck around Hitler’s forces and took the town from behind
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“Mr. Ravioli” Summary In “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli,” author Adam Gopnick, a New Yorker at the turn of the twenty first century, argues about how busy and hectic our lives as adults have become in today’s society through, ironically, the reflection of his child’s paracosm of adult relationships. He begins with detailing that Mr. Ravioli, Gopnik’s daughter’s imaginary friend, is already much too busy to play with her; the friend is always either at work or on the way to an prior planned engagement
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