10 FEB 2018 by ideonexus
Adult Participation in Children's Worldplay
In The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood (2006), the art theorist Ellen Handler Spitz argues that "[t]he topic of adult participation in children's play is delicate, complex, and controversial," largely due to the overwhelming influence a parent or a teacher or even adult-generated entertainment media can have. Adults must work hard not to impose their owti interests, methods, or judgments upon play activity.
The act of modeling and encouraging can, indeed, be fi-aught with miss...03 MAR 2014 by ideonexus
Postmodernism is the Buddhist "Beginner's Mind"
Ancient Taoist and Zen masters wrote about something called, "beginner's mind," or translated, the Japanese word shosin. In contemporary counseling the revolution taking place is finally catching onto their ancient message. Until around the 1990's a therapist was considered expert, authority, and guide until diverse voices challenged that position, including feminist thought, multiculturalism, person-centered thought, and an emerging preventive and wellness paradigm in healthcare. These chall...It's a philosophy that pushes people to see things as if they were new.
05 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Survival of the Fittest Doesn't Apply to Animals in a Soc...
Such biological ideas as the 'survival of the fittest,' whatever their doubtful value in natural science, are utterly useless in attempting to understand society ... The life of a man in society, while it is incidentally a biological fact, has characteristics that are not reducible to biology and must be explained in the distinctive terms of a cultural analysis ... the physical well-being of men is a result of their social organization and not vice versa ... Social improvement is a product of...Folksonomies: society social darwinism
Folksonomies: society social darwinism
Where all members rely on all other members.
10 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Study nature to find your voice
Study nature to find your voice. One reason
the natural history genre thrives today is the
tremendous variety of voices it makes possible: the
wild exactness of Annie Dillard, the calm
thankfulness of Terry Tempest Williams, the scientific
precision of Bernd Heinrich. But again, this is not just
the province of professional writers or exceptional
talents. No matter how dry or literal an amateur
naturalist’s field notebook might be, sooner or later it
begins to fill up with descriptions of h...Natural History as a genre thrives because the variety of voices contributing to it.