20 rEFLEctIoNS | V o LU M E 9‚ N U M B E r 2 reflections.solonline.org Book ExcErpt 9.2 The Necessary Revolution How We Got Into This Predicament Something important has happened in the last stage of the industrial era that sets it apart from the past: Globalization has brought a level of interdependence between nations and regions that never existed before‚ along with truly global problems that also have no precedent. The Industrial Age isn’t ending because of a decline in opportunities
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Peter Senge: Video Interviews Speaking specifically about management in his video interviews Senge believes that we don’t understand how we depend on other people all over the world‚ that we don’t "understand the nature of interdependance" (1). He also states that we don ’t understand the extent to which our choices influence other people. E.g. charging a phone can cause diminishing of fossil fuels/climate change. Our decisions although they may have a positive effect in the immediate short
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ideologies Latinx children learn at school and how they were negotiated within family and community contexts. The study specifically focuses on analytical parallels between schools’ deficit framing of parents and their language and cultures and children’s deficit framing of parents. The study took place in a Latinx immigrant community‚ referred to as La Fuente‚ located in a low-income and densely populated part of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. The local public elementary school was predominantly Latinx
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Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management‚ co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute‚ and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is known as author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization from 1990 (new edition 2006). Peter Senge was born in Stanford‚ California. He received a B.S. in Aerospace engineeringfrom Stanford University. While
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What Students Truly Learn in School “In the American capitalist system‚ students learn to compete; the goal is to win‚ ‘to beat the others‚’(Eve)‚ even if this means acting in ways that are personally frustrating and dissatisfying” (Pope‚ 169). Denise Clark Pope‚ in chapter 7 of her book Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out‚ Materialistic‚ and Miseducated Students‚ explains that students that are deemed successful often use tactical strategies such as cheating‚ kissing up
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your school library looking for one of your favorite books. You look around and it´s not there. You ask the librarian they say that the took out the book because it was difficult subject for some kids. How would you feel? Schools have been banning books for many years. Schools should not be banning books because books help kids learn about very important subjects. Furthermore‚ books teach kids about the world around them. Lastly‚ books help kids open up their viewpoint.The first reason schools shouldn’t
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Throughout the years‚ books from classics to young adult novels have been banned.. Books are an essential part of education. They have always been there to teach children‚ but all over the country‚ books are being prohibited. Certain books are not only banned in schools but they are also banned in libraries‚ and bookstores‚ limiting public access to specific pieces of literature. These books are banned for because they include profanity‚ or sometimes having different opinions than the majority of
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November 27‚ 2012 Tears of a tiger “Tears of a Tiger” is a book about a high school student named Andy Jackson. This book has 180 pages. The book opens up with a newspaper article about a car accident that killed the town’s star basketball player‚ Robbie Washington. Andy was the driver of the car and his three friends‚ Robbie‚ B.J. and Tyrone were the
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Every year millions of families flee their native countries to find safety and stability‚ according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Few people fully realize the hardships refugee families face once they have landed in a new country with very little to their name. Through still photographs‚ New Roots aims to document the first year of resettlement for a refugee family as they come to America and settle in Rochester‚ New York. As of June 2013‚ the total population of
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Flying Kites On A Pond (Essay #1 to Jerome Stern’s What They Learn In School) Jerome Stern’s What They Learned In School challenges the phrase "the sky is the limit" in the case of today’s methods of school education. While we are taught that education further develops human characteristics and the understanding of life‚ Stern points out the ironies. Instead of the intention to expand‚ to explore‚ and to inspire‚ he feels today’s education is hypocritical of what it preaches. Stern’s essay follows
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