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Culture Is Dynamic Culture does not exist outside of human beings. This means that cultures are not static relics, stagnant behaviors, or sterile values. Steven Arvizu’s wonderful description of culture as a verb rather than a noun captures this essence of culture beautifully.4 That is, culture is dynamic, active, changing, always on the move. Even […]

Defining Culture Previously, I have defined culture as “the ever-changing values, traditions, social and political relationships, and worldview created, shared, and transformed by a group of people bound together by a combination of factors that can include a common history, geographic location, language, social class, and religion.” As is clear from this definition, culture is

Culture and Education By this point in the volume, the need for dialogue in public spaces may seem obvious. But having this conversation occur in shared, respect- ful, and productive ways is not easy in diverse, pluralistic settings. It may be even more difficult in those settings where differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, and

kinesiology High school You will create a curriculum map year at a glance. It will be similar to the one pictured in table 4.5 of the textbook. You will need to refer to at least one of the following resources. In California, we use the California Content Standards. If you are in California, or plan

Describe a current or past school improvement effort at a (your) school. How could action research potentially further that initiative? (MY SCHOOL IS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL) ANSWER THE ABOVE QUESTION AND THEN REPLY TO MY CLASSMATE’S DISCUSSION TO THE ABOVE QUESTION AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE. (MINIMUM OF 325 WORDS TOTAL FOR BOTH)                                                              CLASSMATE’S POST

Transform Messages Into Stories Session Slides (Links to an external site.) Messages are all around us. They are in the greetings we give and receive and the conversations we join. They are the questions we are asked and in the looks we receive or don’t. They can be as personal as text messages or as

The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities That anyone today should seriously contend that the entities referred to by scientific theories are only convenient fictions, or that talk about such entities is translatable without remainder into talk about sense con- tents or everyday physical objects, or that such talk should be regarded as belonging to a

EMPIRICIST DEMURRAL In McMullin’s description of retroductive inference as the process by which science arrives at theories, we encounter a great liberalization of traditional epistemology’s view of the sciences. As McMullin moves to his conclusion, he shows us how much had to be progressively discarded. First, the Aristotelian tradition’s pretension that we can arrive at

MCMULLINS SOPHISTICATED SCIENTIFIC REALISM McMullin did not much like the use of “true” and “truth” in this context. In his well-known “A Case for Scientific Realism,” he ends by apparently eschewing claims to truth altogether: Bas C. van Fraassen 137 I do not think that acceptance of a scientific theory involves the belief that it

MCMULLIN CLAIMS ON BEHALF OF RETRODUCTION Those claims I introduced briefly above; let me quote the entire passage now: retroduction is not an atemporal application of rule as deduction is. It is extended in time, and logically very complex. It is properly inference, since it enables one to move in thought from the observation of