Fri 28 Dec 2001 16:10
It's 4:10 pm friday. I've sort of dallied today, not quite sure what my routine should be.
So.dreamtime
What do I feel like doing right now? Finding a sociology school to go to.
O.k.
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Thu 27 Dec 2001 00:02
To do, care of the body. Saturday or sunday, adv. beginner simonson
jazz class? Other stretching? Home in time to do evening stretching?
Something more than I'm doing now to feel very good.
Mom, use 8777142611 for messages since if I have my phone off it will send email. I prob won't be coming down w
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Thu 27 Dec 2001 00:01
Unschooling
And, as Mitchell Stevens shows in Kingdom of Children, his readable
sociological survey of the movement, they include the needs of many
American women, mostly conservative Christians, whose beliefs do not
permit them to work outside the
from
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:S9JWCe5VFDg:www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/11/talbot.htm+new+york+city+unschool&hl=en&ie=utf-8
In a 1995 study of home educators the sociologist Maralee Mayberry
found that 84 percent believed the Bible was literally true, 78 percent
said they went to church at least once a week, and 98 percent were
white.
Conservative Christians have become the new counterculture, far more
vital than what remains of the 1960s version, and home schooling is
their most successful alternative institution.
Stevens, a professor of sociology at Hamilton College, spent ten years
interviewing home-schooling families, watching them teach, pitching
tents at
"Love is spelled T-I-M-E," as one home-schooling family's Web site puts
it. "We give ourselves to our children while they are young and need
our instruction ... By the time they complete the high school years
they are firmly anchored in GOD'S WORD, and have learned to stand
against the world."
Christian home schoolers are "refreshingly explicit about the human
costs of raising children," Stevens found. "They devote considerable
energy to explaining why children 'need' full-time mothers, and they
also are careful to celebrate the doing of that work." (The
unschoolers, in contrast, tended to celebrate the creativity of the
child over the labors of the mother.)
Indeed, in a study conducted a few years ago the sociologists Christian
Smith and David Sikkink found that home-schooling families are actually
more enmeshed in their communities than public school families. They a
If the rest of us (people nursing vague beefs with the public schools,
people without a powerful religious or ideological justification)
started pulling our kids out of the schools, I doubt it would serve any
social good at all.
Of course, one might argue that the home schoolers' activism is too
narrow and self-interested to count as social capital. But that may be
too narrow a way of thinking. As Smith and Sikkink argue,
American democracy thrives on the widespread participation of its
citizens in a host of different kinds of associations that mediate
between the individual and the state, often even when those
associations are not manifestly political or liberal ... [T]he
experience of association and participation itself tends to socialize,
empower, and incorporate citizens in ways that stimulate democratic
self- government, even if they involve some particularity and conflict
in the process.
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This is the third and final volume of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a
series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas
Rescher.
I called and ordered my GRE scores-- I'm not sure where my copy will be sent... maybe I will check the web site.
Verbal: 660 93%
Quantitative: 710 76%
Analytical: 550 47%
Psychology: 780 99%
I spent $29 on that call....
In spite of taking these tests without preparing specifically for the GRE, I did well on the psychology subject exam.
Sometime, I will try to determine
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What schools should I apply to?
First, let's work on our research paper and see what happens, then, in
about 3 months (end of march, beginning of april, we'll ask this
question again). Columbia, Berkeley, NYU (bleah), I don't really care,
to be honest. An olympic sized pool, easy access to dbs and libraries.
Though I do also need people.
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regarding the research, how to balance learning the background with
making progress on my own idea, with making progress on the applied
aspect of encouraging dreaming, and evaluating the effects of doing so?
Let's create different assignments and different levels of research
projects. Furthermore, it is clear that few people will take you
seriously (including yourself) if your theory does not have relation to
other people's daily life besides your own.
It's 6:10 let's take a break and then ponder this...
we shouldn't stay later than 7:30
snakegirl-- beverly is doing something currently in demand, that has an
audience. She has done talks, etc, impressive. What is wondering is
that my situation impressed her. Well, sometime, it will impress me,
perhaps by how it impresses others.
how to balance learning the background with making progress on my own
idea, with making progress on the applied aspect of encouraging
dreaming, and evaluating the effects of doing so?
(1) Learning background is easy, simply reading the books, to some
extent. Learning background as it relates to an idea is more involved.
(2) Defining an idea is challenging
(3) developing and testing an intervention is perhaps the hariest of all (though writing about it could be more so).
Let's concentrate on 2 & 3, and work on a framework for 2 & 3 that can be filled in by background research.
let's get started! perhaps in word.
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