Category: Teachers College

March 25, 2016

Raising a Glass of Rousseau: On Educating the Diligent Reader

This essay was written on the classic text by Jean Jacques Rousseau – “Emile or On Education”. This seems to be the origin of a lot of the arguments for self-directed learning and also the source of their confusion. Rousseau posits a concept called well regulated freedom, which is actually a highly controlled kind of freedom. He makes references to the difficulty of the distinction when he refers to a confusion between ‘license and liberty’ (p.80). In believe that in his view, liberty will lead to happy children, whereas license will lead to spoiling.

March 22, 2016

Culture and Society in the Caribbean: Week 8

My note taking style has developed. Now I am taking notes during the lecture for use when listening to the audio tapes. It can help me edit the sections, label them and as a listener watch out for certain topics. I hope the reader/listener appreciates this adaptation. Further, I’ve isolated a section ‘below the line’ on each page where I write my own thoughts as they are developing in response to the lecture. These are for my future use in essays or developing the ideas further.

March 19, 2016

Weekly Reflection 3/19/16

A busy week that was supposed to be a catch up week - Spring Break.  What Break? Had a lovely chat with my Dad, finished reading a bunch of texts for Anthropology study, Travelled to Toronto and was SUPER BUSY.

March 8, 2016

Culture and Society in the Caribbean: Week 7

After an introduction to the video which Comitas gives in the audio (above), we watched this footage of Michael Manley, then recently ex-Prime Minister of Jamaica (he won re-election a few years later). Manley speaks eloquently about the problems facing his country and the larger impact they have on the world.

Michael Manley address at Hunters College

March 1, 2016

Culture and Society in the Caribbean: Week 6

Comitas - Week #6 (1)

Comitas - Week #6 (2)

Comitas - Week #6 (3)

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Comitas - Week #6 (5)

Comitas - Week #6 (6)

February 24, 2016

Culture and Society in the Caribbean: Week 5

This week Professor Comitas moved onto discussing what he called three periods in the History of research in the Caribbean. Loosely they are: (1) Everything before 1945 (2) post war scholars (1945-1980s) (3) contemporary period (1980s through to now).