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NAMTA Journal 33/1 07 A Brief Historical Preface to the Task of Curriculum Reform: A Personal and Therefore a Limited Report

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ln the somewhat distant past, while a hu- o_ 't 5 J-1 On.: E )'' iJ: man being was looking around and settling…
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Or there is the chilljng evolutionary thought that Ignorance is essential for the human race to function and to survive,…
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of cells in the individual body of a student is one hundred trillion. The DNA in each of these cells of a student is almost…
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lf a normal person is somewhat intimidated by standing next to a giant sequoia (Sequoinde11dro11 gignnte11111), how should a…
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beings, stated, "One's character determines one's fate" (cited in Kirk, Raven, &…
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The Egyptians also would add that wit and humor should be a companion within each personal, doomed little wagon as it moves…
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This road, Ao·oss the withered moor, It is all that God offers. (cited in Blyth 192) And after the time of the writing of…
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In comparison to even fifty years ago, let alone the time of Spinoza, no one can dispute the arrival of the enormous comfort…
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had no dishes, not even a cup, and dwelt alone in a tub-although Al.exander himself claimed if he had to live any other life…
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philosopher with students happens to be Friedrich Nietzsche (1844- 1900). [t is understandable in the sense that Nietzsche…
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sion makes light of Nietzsche, but the Nazi party's misinterpretation and misuse of this philosopher created a very real…
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would not have been any need for Aristotle, his student, to address those pioneering Platonic difficulties in a likewise grand…
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inspire" them to learn. If the answer was negative or uncertain, the candidate apparently was urged to go into some…
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the Ship of Fools.Self-satisfied lovers of nothing, of fa.lse representa- tions and false concepts that the body/ mind creates…
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ness,a non-existence grade that depends on its sad, slowly fading past for an expiring symbol of meaning. There are millions…
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Aristotle indicates that a human being is "potentially" a noble rational animal. Apparently for him, the…
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of educational body counts or, better, dulled mind counts, a loss for any community. Again a fragmentfromSappho runs a…
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education. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865) had no formaleducation- no, not precisely. All together, in total, Mr. Lincoln had about…
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King Jesus, No Man Is Gonna Hinder Me."); lastly, Prude11tia: the habit of always understanding and acting justly in…
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cist would accept) that appearances, in a sense, are not the "real" world. But "in reality&quot…
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of earning one's mind. Earning one's freedom. Or so it seems in those ancient texts. Should a realizable curriculum…
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his uniform, lie down, and wait to be shot in an unavoidable demon- stration of common humanity. However, this was his…
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Add what Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-) wrote of his own expe- riences in one of Stalin's concentration camps (1945-1953…
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and opportunity that condemn millions to lives of despair" (cited in Grossman 46-48). Does this lack still exist at…
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Latin curricular response to Mr. Chavez: Ho111osi11e pecunin potestnteq11e 111ortis imago, "a human being without…
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it has never been tried (37). Why not? But what does succeed in the character education of a human being, indeed, if &quot…
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was sent by concerned parents along with a warm cloak, a large regional cheese, and a keg of red table wine to a child at a…
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solely to benefit others, and honesty and altruism are always the best policy, how are we to explain the occurrence and…
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simply the source of individual potential wickedness and irresponsi- bility? The historical sources of a "damaged…
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A Hasidic rabbi once said that every human being should carry two coins in two pockets. Jn one should be a coin with the…
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older and became filled with the experience of the world of men, women, power, and wealth and had to navigate and cope with a…
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general interpretation, it simply might be assumed that in time, as the known evolves, so also the knower evolves; in other…
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Each generation naturally accepts that it is cutting edge in com- parison to the past without realizing that the imperfect,…
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This active human curiosity and humility seems to be based upon a habit of imagination and a logical clarity that enables a…
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modern curriculum. There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations. Instead of…
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exhibited in the later, experienced, seasoned tone of the old Plato of his last work, The Lnws. Intimidating? You bet. In…
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rupting the good principles of their original virtuous nature ... but the true, content mortal alone earns and cultivates…
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Old Kingdom, 2600 BC (Nos. 10182, 10222, the British Museum) a certain wealthy individual, Tuauf, in his Teachings, an…
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often brilliant, but ghastly theoretical mistakes and om1ss1ons in regard to the way things actually worked in the human body…
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The time in the past is gone when Rome and Greece were mixed with the memories, sometimes justly unsympathetic memories, of…
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past, condemning one to waste time on issues that already have been solved or, at least, issues that have been put in some…
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young man is supposed to wear to the chariot races as well as what exercises will mold attractive feet and biceps to excite…
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Cleveland, Sydney, or Paris. After all, Marx (1818-1883) was a German Jewish classicist whose doctoral thesis was on the…
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Latin or Greek, a sort of formal stream-of-consciousness prose with little punctuation-in written manuscript form, not even…
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thjng," supposedly operates in the two above-mentioned processes, at least according to those medieval scholars who…
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~-------------------------------- ---- and knowledge, not necessarily accurate insofar as one can use the term "…
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All these and more are substantial and encouraging beginnings toa much larger tapestry of an overall synthetic curriculum. A…
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senting a projected unity, justifying all assumptions of all subject matter-a unity that a curriculum of juxtaposition ignores…
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The question becomes: How do the disciplines relate substantially and organically to one another to unite in an inclusive,…
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In reality, a human being does not actually become what it exam- ines, but it seems it can edge workably close. One obviously…
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juxtaposition of subjects to possible synthesis of the subjects with the ever-lurking doubt that, in the end, there might not…
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Clearly, contemporary theoretical physics is on a quest of validating an order in the physical make-up of anything the human…
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across the subjects selected for a curriculum so that the end of any knowledge search is a "logical potentiality&…
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of" knowable being" is to hide and hide again the order of phenomena from a pursuing human mind. Clearly,…
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each subject alone: the assumptions and process of" doing" sociology, anthropology, geology, art history,…
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sapientes, the late arriving, distressed, questioning, deception-loving guests. Who .invited them anyway? God? Probably no one…
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connection is stronger than a seen one" (cited in Kirk, Raven, & Schofield 188, 192, author's…
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~-------------------------------- ---- "You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to…
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author's translation). The limited amount of time in the hole was also due to an understanding that seven minds/bodies of…
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dence of viruses on living cells, and, finally, the anatomy and the immune system of dogs, just as they had learned about all…
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hand. In the end, it appears from historical evidence that the art of thinking cannot merely be taught as, indeed, no art can…
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~----------------~~ L Lancis Cuius Apparentis Menti Mulvus: Veritas, ludicium, lnfinitas The Kite of the Parameters of the…
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REFERENCES Arendt, Hannah. Tire H11111a11 Condition. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. Aelian. Historical Miscella11y. Loeb…
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Esenin, Segey. Tl,e Heritage of R11ssia11 Verse. Ed. D. Obolensky. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1962. £very111a11. Medieval Drama…
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Menzel, Emil W., Jr. Preface. Deception: Perspectives 011 H11111n11 n11d Nonl111111n11 Deceit. Ed. Robert W. Mitchell &amp…
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Tolstoy, Leo. A111rn Knre11111n. l'W York: Viking Penguin, 2000. Viii on, rran~ois. Th!' Poems of Mn,ta Frn11rois…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 08 Optimism and Hope in a Hotter Time

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David Orr 198 The NAMTA Jo11maf • Vol. 33. No. I • Wimer 2008
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OPTIMISM AND HOPE IN A HOTTER TIME by David W. Orr Dr. Orr draws a sharp distinctio11 between opti111is111 and hope i11 the/…
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I know of no good reason for anyone to be optimistic about the human future, but I know a lot of reasons to be hopeful.…
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of several decades between the emission of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases and the weather headlines, and still…
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Hope, however, requires us to check our optimism at the door and enter the future without illusions. It requires a level of…
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driver's seat and al- ways will be, so the consumer economy is here to stay, but con- sumers sometimes want greener…
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many gigatons of carbon without any serious changes in how we live. There is, accordingly, no wedge called "suck it…
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changes without any sacrifice at all. Maybe changes now underway are enough to save us. Maybe small changes will increase the…
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problem. We have been playing fast and loose with life for a while now and it is time to discuss the changes we must make in…
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wars we fight, the stuff they buy and crazy weather; the politicians they elect and the spread of poverty and violence. They…
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So, what does a carbon-neutral society and increasingly sustain- able society look like? It has front porches; public parks;…
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Marlowe's Or. Fn11st11s, Mary Shelley's Frnnkenstei11, Melville's Moby Dick, and the book of Ecclesiastes. They…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 09 Overcoming Cynicism and Cultivating Positive Adolescent Engagement

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Kevin Rathunde 210 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 33. No. I • Winter 2008
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OVERCOMING CYNICISM AND CULTIVATING POSITIVE ADOLESCENT ENGAGEMENT by Kevin Rathunde Kevin Rnt/111nde, advocate for…
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Dr. Orr went on and mentioned that to combat environmental problems we need engagement, we need to insti I I-as he said…
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how much action there is going to be. The best evidence that cynicism is widespread is the materialism we see around us. This…
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where does my belief system fit in this diverse world we live in? lnternet anonymity bas really changed the way kids…
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friend's parents" or "They have rules that are different." When they look at themselves they…
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This sounds very much like a Montessori perspective, right? He also thought that this inner nature was vulnerable and could…
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He continues: "The [pathologies] of the affluent and indulged young come partly from deprivation of intrinsic values…
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Instead of just saying intrinsic engagement hea Is cynicism, I want to try and get further into the process. Why is engagement…
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intrinsic motivation and engagement? That's how you get a disembod- ied mind: You cut off the personality from a holistic…
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you see here the Montessori schools were different. The primary mode for the Montessori students was feeling intrinsically…
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Damasio has learned from working with brain injuries and new imaging techniques that emotion is connected to good reasoning.…
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with this theory, Stephen Kaplan, suggests that in the modern world there is an abundance of mental fatigue. l have been…
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tates flow, if the embodied cognition perspective and Damasio are correct when placing the body and emotion in the chain of…
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Louv, Richard. LnstChildi11 the Woods. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006. Maslow, Abraham. The Fnrther Renches of H11111n11…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 10 Finding Personal and Professional Pathways to a Partnership Approach to Education

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Riane Eisler 226 The NAMTA Journal • \lo/. 33, No. I • Wimer 2008
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FINDING PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL p ATHWAYS TO A p ARTNERSHIP APPROACH TO EDUCATION by Riane Eisler Rinne Eisler's…
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also as a mother and a grandmother deeply concerned about what kind offuture our children and our grandchildren will have. I…
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the stairs, and J saw that brutality. But I also saw something else that made a profound and lasting impression on me. It was…
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And so it went. [ eventually set out to find the answers myself. That's not something women are supposed to do, you know…
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into this notion-that there are only two alternatives, you either dominate or you are dominated. There is no partnership…
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relations, even though we know and have long known from psychol- ogy that these are very formative. They so profoundly affect…

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