Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change and The Karate Kid

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Write a substantive 250 words response to the ideas from a colleague post listed below, that originated from their views from the book and movie listed.

    Ira Shor, Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change (Chicago:     
University of Chicago Press, 1992)
    The Karate Kid (Movie)

Karate Kid and Empowering Education
  The difference between empowering pedagogy and traditional educational approaches is the positive or negative feelings that students develop from the learning experience. Power is the ability to influence change and learning is the ability to critically think within the context of the situation. The Karate Kid demonstrates two distinctly different approaches to teaching and the impact it has on the learners ability to see, hear, and think rather than default to education that requires memorizing and obedience.

  Daniel struggles with socialization in his new environment. He is stifled by his inability to resolve the issues. His approach results in hostility, and inconsistent outcomes. His lack of confidence undermines his desire for self-esteem.

  Traditional education practices make simple questions such as, How did the tree get so small? complex. Miyagi represents educational empowerment through basic cooperation, critical thought, experience, and negotiated authority. The goal was not to win but to empower Daniel with the ability to pursue sufficient understanding to achieve his goal. Education helps to understand the situation.

Teaching informs how to adapt to the situation.  Paint the house, wax on wax off struck me as an example of educating, teaching, translating for the purpose of achieving the goal. His curiosity empowered his cooperative and participatory spirit. The opposing karate instructor taught structure, obedience, hate, and the penalty for disobedience. His teachings represented the dominant view of society. His students were self-centered, indoctrinate, and were unable to think for themselves. Power was viewed as dominance.
 
Daniels’s empowering and triumphant moment represented his accomplishment to think critically, accept challenges, take risks, and believe that his actions would make a difference. One person can make a difference. Make it a good one.

Introduction to humanities museum project

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The Museum Project Part 1 – Curating

Instructions

The Museum Project Part 1: Curating

To begin the virtual museum project, you must fill out this form and submit it to the assignment folder. The following information will help you to successfully complete the form.

  • Having explored the ideas presented in the class, you hopefully found something to pique your interest.  Was there a reading that you found particularly enlightening?  Was there an idea that engaged you or helped you to draw a connection to something outside the course? 
    • You need to identify that reading or idea and explain it as if you were explaining it to someone who has not taken the course. 
    • You need to review the materials in Learning Unit One and consider how the reading or idea works within two or three humanities disciplines (called “humanities fields” in Unit One).
  • After you’ve explained and explored the reading or idea, you’ll want to begin searching for images and research to help you shape your own thinking on your subject. 
    • It’s at this stage where you might want to also explore other forms of art – not just paintings but photography, film, music, street art, dance, theater, literature, etc. – that you can incorporate into your presentation. 
    • You may even want to think of this as your opportunity to create a “mini lesson” for this Humanities Course. 
    • This step will take you quite a bit of time as you will need to curate – locate and evaluate – your materials.
    • As you take notes and find materials, be thinking about the relationship between your materials and why you find them interesting or how they relate.  Also, be sure to keep track of your sources.  You’ll need to provide the full MLA bibliographic citation for each item you curate. 
      • For information on creating and formatting an MLA bibliographic citation, see here.
      • You are required to curate at least six images (paintings or photographs) and three research sources
      • You may substitute up to three images with music, street art, dance, theater, literature, etc. – this still ensures six curated pieces of art but broadens the definition from paintings and photography to include other art forms
    • Images must come from either the BC Online Library and its databases or from a physical museum’s website
    • Other research (essays, books, journal articles, etc.) must come from the BC Online Library or its databases
  • After you’ve curated your images and research materials, it’s time to start shaping your ideas into a presentation.  To do that, you need to create a working thesis and outline. 
    • A thesis is the central argument of a paper or presentation.  Since you’re creating a narrative, you are essentially creating a paper, as well.  It’s just a paper that you might “read” as you present your images and ideas.  Therefore, you need to ask yourself: “What do I want to prove?” 
      • Remember, a thesis is an argument for meaning.  What does your curated information mean or suggest?  How do you know?  What is the relationship between the course material and the information you’ve found? Why is it interesting? What can we learn from it?
      • When you completed your discussion in Unit Eight, you practiced interpreting and creating meaning for the images provided.  Throughout the semester, the reflection papers and discussions have also asked you to create meaning.
    • In addition to a working thesis, the outline must contain an Introduction (The Thesis), Three Main Ideas, and a Conclusion
      • Each Main Idea must have at least two supporting details which reference two images or pieces of art from your curated materials and one scholarly source from your research. (There is an outline template found in the worksheet – in fact, this entire page is a kind of outline)
      • For information on creating an outline, visit these videos:
  • Finally, how do you want to present your information in the final draft?
    • As stated before, you can create a video, powerpoint, prezzi, etc.
    • You must create a narrative for your presentation and either read it with your final project or submit it as a written document.
      • The narrative must contain in-text citations for quoted and summarized materials — even the recorded or spoken narrative needs these citations
      • The final page of the presentation or narrative must have a Works Cited page listing all of your curated materials.

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write a four page paper on your book citing and summarizing quot key take aways quot

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Please choose from this list of books and write a four page paper on one of them:
• How to Win Friends & Influence People – Carnegie, Dale. New York, Pocket Books. 1981.
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Covey, Stephen R. New York, Simon & Schuster. 1989.

• Fierce Conversations – Scott, Susan. New York, A Berkley Book. 2002.• Time Tactics of Successful People – Griessman, Eugene, McGraw Hill, 2004.• Talk Like TED – Gallo, Carmine (2013).• Essentialism – McKeown, Greg (2014).
You are to write a four-page paper on your book, citing and summarizing “key take-aways” and how you can apply at least five principles to your own career/life. Type the report using 1.5 line spacing and either Calibri or Times Roman Font.
Here’s the grading criteria:Well written and thorough – 5 principles x 10 points each (Ask yourself: Did I use concrete and specific examples when discussing the principles covered throughout the book?) 50 points
Application was evident – 5 application examples at 30 points each (Make sure to give in-depth examples of how principles can be applied to your career/life) 150 points
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International financial management | Management homework help

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Description

For your term project, you will make a recommendation on managing risk exposure for a hypothetical multinational corporation (MNC) with (assigned) foreign currency cash flows scheduled to occur in 3 months. The information you collect and analyze will help you assess the risk of your firm’s foreign exchange exposure, forecast the exchange rate of one currency in 3 months, and make a decision about hedging the transaction exposure for cash flows due in three months. Information Sources: Use current financial and economic information in your analysis. You can use data sources on the internet that are authentic or official.