Tacit knowledge

It is interesting to see in this section the complex functions of self-disparaging humour deployed in the classroom can help the teachers to establish, maintain relationship with students. Besides deploying self-disparaging humour, teasing humour is frequently used to carry out various complex functions. 5.7.2.2. Teasing humour Drawing from the previous sections, it is argued that the role of joke and humour can usefully help the teachers to mitigate the negative effects of criticism and…

& Schreiner, 2006, p.4). Upon taking the StrengthsQuest survey, as a part of the class requirements for Interdisciplinary Studies 400, I discovered that my strongest theme is learner. Learners, as the name implies, love to learn and obtain new knowledge. For learners, the process of learning is an adventure that brings immense joy and excitement. The discovery that learner is my strongest theme was not a surprise for me, as I use learning every day in my life. This theme can be used in everyday…

Montessori schools are aimed to create independent and curious learners who engage with everyday objects that surround them in order to construct their own knowledge through hands-on experiences. Although typically traditional school settings are seen as more popular, Montessori schools provide a kind of learning that cannot be found elsewhere. The teachers in Montessori schools play a very specific role as an observer in order to provide the correct materials and create a suitable learning…

Theaetetus is to examine how the mind accounts for knowledge by seeking an answer to the question Socrates poses to Theaetetus, what is knowledge? (146A). After a few failed attempts at answering, Theaetetus posits that knowledge is true opinion (187B). Socrates responds that in order for one to know what true opinion is, he must also account for false opinion in the mind. Ultimately, while the dialogue produces no operative definition for knowledge, Plato employs this dialogue to sharpen his…

In today’s world the vast majority of people have integrated their smartphone into their everyday life. Todays smartphone is not only a voice communication device but a camera, a gps, a internet browser, a video camera and many other things and undoubtedly inventors will come out with new functions that we can only imagine. Can today’s educators integrate the smartphone into their everyday teaching responsibilities? My research answers this question with a resounding yes. Many research studies…

When I first started this internship at the beginning of the semester, I had an image in my mind of how things would be like. I had ideas in my head about which classes I would be strongest in and struggle. I quickly learned that things don’t always go they way we think. As a teacher we have to learn to adapt. I thought my strongest class to teach would be the marine science class, sine it’s my undergrad degree, but I have grown to really enjoy teaching Biology. I am learning a lot about myself…

king who was wise. To begin, Plato believed that a man’s tendency was to believe pleasures to be good in contrary to true knowledge which is what the more refined believed (Republic, Book VI 505b). In this belief, Plato wanted the people to know that the status of good is more honorable than even truth and knowledge. He expressed this belief when he said, “Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things. But if you are to think correctly, you must think of the good as other and more beautiful…

The Allegory of The Cave is a story about a man who had spent his life chained to a cave only seeing shadows from a fire behind him. One day, he is released and goes to see the wonders of his new world. Eventually, he returns back to the cave to tell the other prisoners about the wonders of the world however they did not recognize his distorted voice or his shadowed body. It is from there that Plato begins his commentary of what the allegory was trying to say. Many topics were discussed in…

what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes” which is seen when the enlightened prisoner feels obligated to go back and share with his friends what he has learned. Just like this prisoner, Socrates feels obligated to educate his friends in a way by which they will gain a deeper understanding. This is the way in which teachers today should also teach, for when knowledge is shared happiness is spread “throughout the city…

developed the five assumptions of andragogy. Knowles noted that a child’s primary role is a student, to learn the basic knowledge required to take on learning as an adult, where the primary role then becomes being an individual contributor to society. Adults are faced with carrying out roles such as employee, parent, caregiver, and so on that require knowledge beyond the basic knowledge obtained as a child. The roles…