The Fifth Discipline

This article was about FBI Director James Comey’s speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Comey’s speech primary focus was on race, policing and how the minority communities see law enforcement. He discussed some key elements and facts. For instance, law enforcement is not the sole cause of racism and racism and inequality. In fact, everyone has somehow contributed to the racial tension between police and minorities. I agree with Comey, the blame is to be shared and not place on the…

twenty fifth, 1927 in South Carolina. She had three sisters and one brother. When she was very young, Althea, her parents, and her siblings moved to Harlem, New York. Due to being poor, Althea's parents lived on public assistance so Althea and her family ended up living with her Aunt Sally. It was also a struggle because they were African-American and in that time they were trying to become free from discrimination. Several years after, Mr. Gibson…

Imagine that you get a phone call at seven one morning from the nursing home saying that your great grandmother, grandma, or mom, was going to be passing away within a few hours. You sit there with her and see how much pain she looks like she is in. Three hours pass, and nothing has changed except that her breathing starts to stop every now and then. The staff gives her morphine periodically to help ease the pain, but you can tell that she is still in pain. The thought crosses your mind that if…

Texts of many kinds can present readers the opportunity to examine new perspectives and decide how their own beliefs compare. Learning is a multi-faceted issue, so multiple perspectives can be especially for further discovery or solidification of one’s own beliefs. In my reflection journal I will address at least two main points from the weekly reading from Contemporary Theories of Learning (Illeris, 2009), and Emotional Intelligence (Goleman, 2005). In addition, I will include my personal…

vital in order to go beyond the normal trends of engaging with a product. The fourth stage is age-regression contrast probe. This stage promotes respondents to look backward in time and elicit critical thinking to provoke feelings and behaviors. The fifth stage is the third-person probe, which is to think how others would feel in similar circumstances to identify their own motives. Sixth stage of the Laddering theory method is redirecting techniques: silence/communication check. Silence entails…

An Analysis of Postman’s View on Education In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, Neil Postman explains his views on how we can improve the future by looking to the past for inspiration. One of the topics he spends a great deal of time discussing is education. and how the education of the young should change. Postman believes that people should be educated to be skeptical as philosophes of the 18th century believed. He has five suggestions on how this should be carried out. Before…

Values and ethics for family-centered practice. In E. Walton, P. Sandau-Becker, & M. Mannes (Eds.), Balancing family-centered services and child well-being. (pp. 34-54). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Senge, P. M. (1990/2006). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday/Currency. Woodside, M., & McClam, L. (2011) An introduction to human services. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning. Zastrow, C., & Kirst-Ashman, K. K. (1997).…

In the article, Living with Myths: Undergraduate Education in America, written by authors Patrick T. Terenzini and Ernest T. Pascarella, one can see that there are many misconceptions about how people view the college educational system in America. Terenzini and Pascarella have done much research suggesting that based on literature there are five myths about the undergraduate education system. Through these five myths they depict their opinions about each through research and their own…

"In 2010, (according to the Department of Health and Human Services), there were 3.3 million reports of alleged abuse to child agencies, involving 3.0 million children. About three-fifths of the reports were made by professionals (teachers, police, lawyers, care providers, and other social services staff). An estimated 695, 000 children were determined by child protective services to be victims of abuse. The rate of victims in the…

on the EC students. The majority of the non-EC students are at-risk students with less than 20% probability of passing the End-of-grade test. Transitioning between grades can be difficult for any child, but it can be particularly difficult for a fifth grader moving up to sixth grade. Many parents and students are unsure of the expectations set in middle school, so it is the job of teachers to set those fears at ease and help create a smooth and painless transition for these parents and…