Pragmatism

both success oriented and driven. [5] However, the report categorizes China with a low score for uncertainty avoidance which Hofstede further explains as meaning that the “adherence to laws and rules may be flexible to suit the actual situation and pragmatism is a fact of life.” [5] We heard about this in class with firsthand experience from, Paul Kullman. In comparison U.S. companies like to have slightly greater control over the future than the Chinese this difference can be exemplified in…

epidemic of older patients requiring care, ill equipped facilities, a culture which denies the reality of aging and the inevitability of death, and a failure to address the ethical issues relevant to elder care. This failure could be caused by pragmatism, or even a lack of imagination, but the actual answer is not that simple. The problem has arisen from the fact that medical science, which largely decides how elders should live out their final days, and puts a premium on preserving health,…

My Adult learner has special circumstances, in which she asked me not to reveal her real name. In this case, I will call her Janet. I meet Janet when I first came to Jacksonville in 2008, and little did I know she would play a pivotal role in the future of my life. I had just retired from 20 years of military service, and moved to Jacksonville. One day while going grocery shopping at Publix, I saw out of the corner of my eye a small insurance agency in the plaza. Coincidentally, I was in the…

According to our textbook “Postmodernism is in large part a rejection of the modern view of things” (Knight, 2008, p. 88). It is the philosophy which believes that truth does not exist or is unknowable and is relative to a person’s culture. Pragmatism, existentialism, and Marxism have been quite influential in postmodernism (Knight, 2008). Teachers who are pragmatists provide their students with numerous child-directed, hands-on learning experiences and teachers learn alongside their students…

Changes in Japanese HRM Systems: Case of Sony’s Restructuring (Group 10) IBE455: HRM in Japan Toshihiro Roppongi A1367977 Rika Kitanaka A1368678 Misa Sekine A1368348 Keito Okamoto A1468667 Introduction: In 1990s, slow economic growth, financial crisis has lead Japan to the lost decade. Due to lower productivity, economic growth, increase in global competition, and the financial crisis, many firms in Japan faced severe competition and declining profits. From this, many…

A solution here is an uneasy one. Outright removing Fort Bragg from the equation is an idealistic idea, but would be met with great resistance by not just the military but those who rely on the post for their income. Slowly scaling back the military presence and having the military pour money in to the cultivation of a more diverse job base sounds overly democratic and perhaps a little naive. The best way to know what to do in the future may be to look at what was done the last time the United…

makes the problem of kludgeocracy ever the more pressing. The inevitability of this has its roots in the founding fathers’ concern over the limits of a central government and the responsibilities a truly representative democracy should have. Their pragmatism has shielded the American people from many of the overreaches a government can impose on its citizenry, but at the price of turning our government into a kind of a labyrinth. This price, I believe is a steep one. When one cannot easily…

Scholar W.E.B. DuBois once said, “When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books, you will be reading meanings” (Brainyquote). Learning was more than just reading numbers and books, it was about understanding them and being able to apply the knowledge that one gained from reading. As the co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people and first African American to earn his Ph.D. from…

There are five philosophies of education that focus on teachers and students; essentialism, perennialism, progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism. Essentialism is what is used in today’s classrooms and was helped by William Bagley in the 1930s. Perennialism is close to essentialism with the same idea of sharpening student’s minds and focusing on Great Books. Progessivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism focus more on the wants and need of the students. Many…

He supports women’s suffrage, progressive education, educator’s rights, humanistic movement, and world peace. He was known for his thoughts concerning education. Dewey is the founder of the Pragmatism Movement, which is a Philosophical Movement that began in the United States in the 1870’s. Dewey was a leader of the Progressive Movement in education in the United States in the 1890-1920s and was said to be “The Greatest Educational Theorist.”…