The philosopher, Rudolph Steiner (1861 -1925) founded the Waldorf School after the First World War (1918). The seed of his approach started at this school where he emphasised the importance of developing the child’s imagination and the creative ability. The Steiner approach is child-centred cross curricular and strongly believes in the important use of role models, routines and practical application. The daily routines in the kindergarten are a key aspect to the child’s learning, through adult-lead and child-initiated play. The natural materials and their environment are used to encourage and develop curiosity and imagination. The emphasis on reading and writing does not start until children are seven years old and they work with the child’s personalities.…
Rebecca Mead an author, who has written articles on a wide range of articles on a wide range of topics. Rebecca works include articles on infertility and cultural phenomena. Recently, Rebecca published an article titled “Learning by Degrees,” the article is an argument on college and if it is worth the money. In the article Mead explains both sides of the argument. Mead also uses statistics to support her argument.…
In his essay “What is Literacy?” author and linguist James Paul Gee informs us of his definition of literacy by breaking it down for us and giving us examples that we personally encounter on a day to day basis. Gee tries to gives us a better understanding of the way that we as people behave when it comes to talking and interacting with different people.…
"The truth about the past is not that it is too brief, or too superficial, but only that we, having turned our faces so resolutely away from it, have never demanded from it what it has to give," wrote James Baldwin in his essay "A Question of Identity," published in The Price of the Ticket.…
In Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime,” he argues that our thoughts and actions are consequences of social influence and material conditions rather than individual psychology and character. In “Biographies of Hegemony,” Karen Ho deepens Gladwell’s emphasis on social and cultural determination by classifying the events that occur on Ivy League college campuses as hegemony; which is the process by which a dominant group, for the purposes of advancing its own interests, gains consent of a subordinate class through the use of intellectual, moral, and cultural encouragement. The big, influential corporations of Wall Street are following this principle by directing the career decision-making…
James Loewen was very accurate in his statement that “students in elementary schools and high schools been taught a history that demeans American Indians”. When I was in elementary school (I went to kindergarten in 1990), students where taught that the pilgrims came over on the Mayflower in 1620. Than shortly after making landing they lived in a harmonious co-existence with the Native American peoples. After receiving what could be called an extremely “white washed” or “sugarcoated” version of early American History, high school students (I went to high school in 1998) were told that there were wars with Native Americans. Only they are told that those wars were started by Native Americans attacking white settlers. In the eyes of a Native American…
Arguments can happen in simple conversations between friends and coworkers. For example, “Sara was trying to convince her friend to join her in the library to study for their upcoming Organic chemistry exam. Sara states that the library is a good place to study because it has textbooks, computers and quiet environment making it the ideal location to study.” In this situation, Sara is trying to convince her friend to join study together for their upcoming organic chemistry test. Sara states several reasons on why they should study in the library such as the library containing textbooks on the given topic. The books will provide several different sources written by professors on the subject. The library will provide several computers where they can get unlimited information on the subject. Also, the library is a quiet environment that can enable maximum concentration on the subject. In this example, an argument is an idea that one is trying to prove to their audience…
In “Imagined Communities,” Benedict Anderson speculated that the transition from printing work in Latin to printing in a wide variety of vernacular created space for the idea of nationalism to form and initiate an alternative option to religion. Before 1500, roughly 77% of the books printed were in Latin, as estimated by French historians Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, which resulted in an ever widening gap between the literate and illiterate. Once Latin was usurped by the vernacular around the year 1640, the spread of new ideas to a wider range of people allowed for more independent thinking, and for the gap between the Monarchy and the illiterate to diminish since people no longer relied on their religion for information or communication.…
Games always start out strong and get stronger as you played through it. “But despite the complexity of these environments, most gamers eschew reading manuals or walk-throughs altogether, preferring to feel their way through the game space. . . .” said Johnson. If we really are dumb, why is that some younger adult are able to create new…
Games always start out strong and get stronger as you played through it. “But despite the complexity of these environments, most gamers eschew reading manuals or walk-throughs altogether, preferring to feel their way through the game space. . . .” said Johnson. If we really are dumb, why is that some younger adult are able to create new…
The author Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” Most people would feel that his statement is right; however, I feel that a person does not have to go beyond something that they are already comfortable with. Most people never master any particle subject skill. There is always room to improve, learn more about the certain subject or skill, and practice what is always changing, so the skills that is known will always have change too.…
Literature exists as a combination of elements. A story requires characters, plot, and an environment or setting. When reading a work of literature such as a short story or play, it is natural for the reader to focus his or her attention on the plot of the work and the characters that produce the plot. In making this decision, consciously or otherwise, the reader places the setting in the background. Indeed, many people refer to the setting as the “background” when discussing literature. Yet the setting plays a direct and tangible role in practically any work of literature. Whether the role of the setting is major, such as the burning of Atlanta in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, or minor, such as the background colors in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, setting is a key element of literature. The motivation of characters through environmental setting in John Steinbeck’s The Chrysanthemums, the influence of period setting in Henrick Isben’s A Doll’s House, and the mood of suspense resulting from atmospheric setting in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles are prime examples of the effect of setting on characters and plot.…
In this report James Paul Gee (1996) from his book Social Linguistics And Literacy has given the idea that literacy is not just the ability to read and write but it is mush more than that. It is the knowledge of different "discourses" which are part of our personalities and the knowledge of the beliefs and values connected to these discourses. He also gives the idea of a liberating literacy which "can be used as a meta-language or a meta- discourse ( a set of meta-words, meta-values, meta-beliefs) for the critique of other literacy and the way they constitute us as persons and situate us in society."…
In chapter three, An Uncommon Education, Guangcheng expressed how he have gotten his education while fighting for justice using the law. First of all, in Linyi, Guangcheng started learning braille using the braille board before classes even begins. When classes began, Guangcheng got the hang of the braille board quickly. Unfortunately, school wasn’t as he as hoped, he even considered it as jail, because he thought the school was supposed to be supported by the government since their government is socialism. The students including him suffered greatly because: lack of water; Forbidden from going outside to buy food; Restriction on the use of bathroom especially at night. No one was allowed to go. When Guangcheng was chosen to become the school…
The teacher candidate volunteer services was performed at Anchorage Baptist Temples Awana program over the course of two evening for a total of two hours of interaction and observation. This volunteer activity was with the Trek and Journey Club which consisted of boys and girls in Junior High and High school. The purpose of this exercise was to evaluate the frame of reference which one brings into the teaching experience compared to the field experience.…