Category: Pedagogy
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Perception and Critical Thinking: How Attention Affects Intention
In today’s world, we are often tasked with processing debilitating levels of information at nearly all times. To meet this need, oftentimes the first sacrifice is our emotional investment in the activities around us: if we tried to keep up, pathetically, with emotional investment of all that happens, we would exhaust ourselves before breaching even…
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Associative Vs Non Associative Learning: Good Goals for Emotional Growth
One of my favorite things to share about myself is how much I love learning. Days and weeks and months of my life have been spent on the sheer pursuit of learning and interacting with things that were previously unknown. What I value most about the act of learning is not the discovery process –…
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Education for Critical Consciousness and Getting More from Life
Education for critical consciousness, improving critical thinking skills, or considering critical development more generally are all worthwhile goals for an individual at any stage of their life, young or adult. And yet, often I hear from friends, colleagues, and coworkers this almost self-defeating attitude of some subject being too complex, some puzzle being too tricky,…