Affective science

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s metaphor of solitude to describe Latin America’s relationship with the rest of the world was very relevant in 1982, when he presented his Nobel Prize lecture. Today however, Latin America is diverging from this so-called “fate” and proving itself to be an emerging relevant power in the world. Despite gravitating away from Marquez’s metaphor of solitude, this is exactly what Marquez predicted within his lecture speech. This essay will explore how Latin America was, from…

taught me that I am a hands on learner. I am able to understand topics more thoroughly and learn better if I am able to do it and see it myself. So this class not only has benefitted me in the future for the rest of my classes, but specifically my science courses. Not only has this lab positively affected me in the rest of my college career, but in the long term as well. It has shone another light on life and given me a new perspective of how I look at things. I now understand life and all…

For my science lesson, I taught heat energy. During this lesson, students had to investigate what objects were going to melt when placed under the sun and why certain objects did not melt when we placed them outside. For this lesson, the level of inquiry that was implemented was level two because I told students what they were going to investigate and explore during the experiment, but students had to make their own conclusions based on what they observe. For this lesson, I planned to have…

Weber authenticated rationality pertaining to values and believed that who are hopeful of the capitalist economy, liberal politics and rationality to rescue human kinds are wrong and he sought an alternative way. He put emphasis on religious faith & morality and believed: “If values become restored, human life will survive from this condition. However, there is an important question in here: “What are these values?”. It seems the values require theoretical bases and epistemology. In other words,…

Legends always told: Those who climb Mount Ebott never return. For years, children dared each other to scale the legendary mountain, only to turn back before the steep slopes. Parents warned incessantly never to go near the place, to stay in their homes and villages, safe from whatever unspoken danger loomed about the mountain. It had a certain mysticism to it, one that kept children coming back again and again, staring through the treetops of the surrounding forest. But so far, that mystery…

As we delve deeper into our theories on interpersonal communication, we begin to learn more about ourselves and how to interact with the people around us. Whether they are in our lives on a personal, professional or combined capacity. This week I have decided to look at the theories of Interactional View and Genderlect Styles (Griffin, 2015). When we study Interactional View, a theory developed by Paul Watzlawick, we can see how communication has shaped us into the people we are today.…

Death is not merely biological phenomena. Biology, medicine and its related disciplines studies death and dying scientifically. Social sciences like sociology or socio psychology and Human sciences like cultural anthropology, history, religious studies and literary theory investigates the death as a human phenomenon. Philosophical perspectives on death and dying are made up of some important categories borrowed from humanistic perspectives. (Pihlström, 2009: 278) This theme is willingly…

cannot take the form of a combination of both story and fact due to the fictional aspect that storytelling involves. However, it is arguable that facts are found through the existence of stories and accounts of past incidents. History and the natural sciences are differing storehouses of stories and facts. Each, in their own system, takes up a combination of stories and facts and are rarely found to consist of only one or other, however the strength of each in these respective fields varies…

paternal care involves some of the same behavior as maternal care towards the offspring but with exceptions such as nursing. Since we know that biological changes also happen in fatherhood as it does in motherhood, how does the man’s brain change? Science has recently started to study the brain of the male in paternal care and has found that the mother and father both use the…

Science is defined as ‘the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure of behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment’ by the Oxford dictionary (Oxford Dictionary 2015). As an early childhood practitioner, this makes me reflect on what exactly is science and how is it appropriate in the early childhood classroom. I understand that science means different things to different people. Some, like me, regard it as just…