The Praxis

Jill Bolte Taylor’s bestseller, My Stroke of Insight, is a polished literary work that can be easily read by a large audience. You don’t need to have the knowledge of a brain scientist to follow along; in fact, the second and third chapter has a summarized introduction to simple science of our bodies and our brain including hemispheric asymmetries. Readers are able to flow through Taylor’s exploration of new sensations from heavy reliance on her right hemisphere. This amalgamation of all little…

3.2. Dean Borgman - Contextual youth ministry Dean Borgman, youth ministry professor at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, was to America what Pete Ward was to the UK during the 1990s. His take on the incarnational approach influenced a wide range of youth ministry. He summarises his view in this way, As leaders committed to youth ministry, we may read the command of our Lord in this way: “You are receiving power from the Holy Spirit to be witnesses of me in all the youth cultures of the world”’ (Borgman…

Miracle child - that nickname my family gave me when I was born premature, only weighing a pound. Doctors believed that I would not have a normal childhood as far as my physical and mental state, and yet I proved them wrong! Every day, I am thankful for the growth, development, successes and challenges that I have encountered thus far. I always believed that I had a purpose to serve, but I never knew what professional path I would embark upon. At a young age, I just knew that I loved helping and…

Sofia Paiva de Araujo LTAM 6251 Dr. Erika Edwards November 6th, 2017 Book review Uribe-Uran, Victor. Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic. Stanford University Press, 2015. Stanford Scholarship Online, 2016. doi: 10.11126/stanford/9780804794633.001.0001. This study investigates spousal murders in Spain and two of its colonies in the Atlantic, New Spain and New Granada, during the late colonial period (1740s-1820s). It explores how these…

framework with moral sources. The awareness of the hypergood is predicated by these moral sources as the fountainhead of inspiration and motivation. These constitutive goods may or may not transcend the self, but always engenders a personal morality and praxis. As Taylor states – “High standards need strong sources.” Certainly Stan has had many challenges and societal conflicts as he made his own personal lifestyle decisions. However, through Stan’s attunement to his hypergood…

As quickly as the world, government, society, and education system is changing, so should our purpose of education. The purpose of education has always changed to fit in with the current needs of society, which often leads to the undermining of many other important functions that education must fulfill. I argue that education must be an active process that takes on this challenge of keeping up with society. The purpose of education should be inquiry because it pushes students to go through a…

The difference between Neo-Confucianism and Confucianism is “From the Neo-Confucian perspective, merely abstract knowledge was useless unless conjoined with ethical self-reflection and cultivation that eventuated in proper moral behavior and social praxis.” (Berthrong, 2016). This caused chaos because many people had…

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) CAS is a pediatric neurological speech sound disorder. This disorder impairs the precision and consistency of the movements that underlie speech. However neuromuscular deficits are absent. It may be the result of a known neurological impairment, and include complex neurobehavioral disorders with known or unknown origins. It may also occur as an idiopathic neurogenic speech sound disorder. The main impairment in planning and/or programming spatiotemporal…

Cognitive function is a complicated function of human brain. The risk factors of cognitive function are not comprehensive. Cognitive function can be influenced by psychological (Santos et al.,2012 ), nutritional, medical (including medical conditions and prescription and nonprescription medications), social, economic, or behavioral, toxic environmental exposures, and genetic factors(Plassman et al., 2010) . As worldwide population aging, this topic increasingly interests researchers. There are…

teaching and training approach” (Booth, 2011, p. xvii). Based on behaviorism, one strength of instructional design is that a student has a logical objective that can be “focused on and become conditioned to respond automatically to cues and goals” (Praxis II, 2010, p.76). In terms of weaknesses related to behaviorism, students may be incapable of responding when there is a stimulus required for an accurate response to a particular prompt. In terms of constructivism, one strength of the…