Reflection Task: Reflect on the following in your Personal Journal: A) What do you think the main ‘knowledge blunders’ are in your life’s social-cultural context? Is there ‘double thinking’ in your society? Are there ‘disjunctures’ in thinking in your society? Are there things that are poorly thought through? Is your issue being approached through a […]
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Video: Understanding Knowledge Blunders and the role of the Socio-philosophic in Social Change and Activism: A Case Study on the AIDS Movement: Paolo Friere’s “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is a KEY TEXT in understanding the role of the Socio-Philosophic in societal transformation. Highly recommended. (embedded below)
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For Self-Reflection Only: Please answer the following question(s): Reflect on how systems thinking could help address structural violence. Reflect on how systems thinking is relevant to developing your approach to addressing your key issue. Reflect and make note of anything else you saw in the interviews or read in the articles or PPT in regards
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Readings and Reflection Tasks: After each reading, you will find questions to reflect upon. Please capture your thoughts in your personal journal. 1. Read Peter Joseph’s “System’s Bound Realizing Relationships.” Answer the following reflection questions in your personal journal: What can you identify as some key aspects of Peter Joseph’s example of socio-systemic thinking?
For Self-Reflection Only: What’s your key issue? Where is it that you really want to make real impact? This is the week to take time to reflect on what your key issue is. This will be the issue that you will be working on during the course and the issue for which you will be
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Welcome to our course on High Impact Innovation Design with Julene Siddique, MA, MMus, CERT. You will need to have two seperate journals handy as you move through the content. The project diary will capture your thoughts specifically as they relate to the project you will be developing. The personal journal is for you to
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I spent many years in my 20s as an environmental activist. That included closing down roads in London to throw a big street party, setting up camp in the woods to prevent a road being built through them and being politically active in the Green Party. They were years full of excitement, camaraderie and fun.
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At Ubiquity, students get one third of their study points for self mastery. In this previous blog you can read more generally about our self-mastery program. In my experience, a foundation for self-mastery is mindfulness. Mindfulness has become a bit of a trend recently, but what does it really mean? Mindfulness is quite simply about
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At Ubiquity University students get one third of their credit for Self-Mastery (the other two thirds are divided between knowledge and Impact projects). Why do we do this and how do we do this? Why would a university include self-mastery? Ubiquity is designed to equip you with the qualities and competencies you need to make
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