By: Aaron Peterson on October 7, 2015
Reading Valentine’s, Social Geographies reminds me of Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf. Although Valentine’s book is about geography and Volf’s is about theology, both deal with the concept of social relations and space. Volf talks about how we humans build walls in our hearts between one another for various reasons and Valentine studies and…
By: Claire Appiah on October 7, 2015
Research and Objective Thinking Gill Valentine: Social Geographies: Space and Society Introduction: In this book, Gill Valentine’s emphasis on space as it relates to all aspects and levels of human social interaction provides the readers in DMIN/lgp6 with yet another way to view, scrutinize and interpret the world we live in. In Sarah Pink’s, Doing…
By: Rose Anding on October 5, 2015
OUR WORLDVIEW Introduction How we view the world depends on our environment, where we were brought up. It depends on the culture we grew in. Generally, it is defined by the ethnography of the culture that we were brought up in.…
By: Anthony Watkins on September 24, 2015
This is a test blog post. Exciting!
By: Jason Kennedy on September 23, 2015
Is it possible to be both a critical thinker and a Christian? After all according to Elder and Paul, “The uncritical tendency is to place one’s culture, nation, and religion above all others (Elder, p. 13). “ She also states that, “Much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or down-right…
By: Kevin Norwood on September 17, 2015
The Three C’s Clear Concise Comprehensive That is the mantra of my lead pastor. Communication must be the three C’s. He preaches it, speaks it and fully believes in it. There are even times that he stops what is going on in a meeting to emphasize these principles. I have worked with him for over…
By: Phil Goldsberry on September 17, 2015
As a young twenty-year-old pastor I was trying hard to “do” and “be” what others wanted. That was a lot of expectation to live up to. Most of the men on my Board were old enough to be my grandfather. I had graduated from Bible College, served as an Associate Pastor and Youth Pastor. I…
By: Pablo Morales on September 17, 2015
“What in the world! Is this a mistake? Wasn’t this book on critical thinking supposed to be a thick book like the others? Did I order the wrong book from Amazon? What could possibly be in this little booklet?” After this initial impression of the book, I looked at the index, took a general look…
By: Aaron Cole on September 17, 2015
The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking – Concepts and Tools by Richard Paul and Linda Elders is my kind of read. I loved how direct and to the point this book was. It said more in a few pages than most attempt in hundreds of pages. I found myself reading, processing, and reading some more.…
By: Colleen Batchelder on September 17, 2015
“Dig!” John’s voice echoed off the nearby cliffs. We all reached in – determined to steer the raft through the roaring rapids. Each wave crested above our heads; challenging our grip with each forceful blow. “We’re digging. We’re digging.” We muttered. Disgruntled looks shot across the small boat. We were tired. We were frustrated. We…
By: Aaron Peterson on September 17, 2015
In 1985 Sting released a single titled, “Russians.” While reading through Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools by Elder, I couldn’t stop singing the line from the song, “I hope the Russians love their children too.” By describing his dream, Sting was also challenging his hearers to practice critical thinking. As Elder states,…
By: Marc Andresen on September 17, 2015
I think we may be uncovering something of what our D Min faculty wants for us. It LOOKS like we’re learning how to read actively, analytically, and critically. But I think this is a ruse. We’re actually learning to be WRITERS with those traits and skills. Ok – so I have my tongue firmly planted…
By: Garfield Harvey on September 17, 2015
During my first semester of music school, I bought a pocket sized music dictionary that I carried around to help me understand music terminologies. I thought carrying the dictionary would make me smarter not because I knew all the answers but I knew where to find most of them. Whenever I tell people that, I…
By: Claire Appiah on September 15, 2015
Cultivating Critical Thinking Systematically In Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools, Richard Paul and Linda Elder have put together a miniature (and I do mean miniature) guide book that provides some very insightful material for the serious individual striving to be a critical thinker. They define critical thinking as, “the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking…
By: Rose Anding on September 14, 2015
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By: Phil Goldsberry on September 14, 2015
The adage that a “Picture is worth a thousand words” is embraceable and even believable. But when you begin to explore “ethnography” it is quite easy to question is what I am seeing the truth of the thousand words that I am getting ready to presuppose? Reading Doing Visual Ethnography by Sarah Pink challenges just…
By: Garfield Harvey on September 11, 2015
It has been years since I read a book that had such great substance and yet, I did not want to keep reading it. Whenever a book is written where the author chooses to make each chapter independent of itself, I know it is trouble for me. In this review, I chose to write how…
By: Kevin Norwood on September 10, 2015
As I approached this new book Doing Visual Ethnography by Sarah Pink, I attempted to do everything that I learned in the previous book about how to read a book. I read the introduction; I read the acknowledgement and table of contents. One of the things that I desperately needed to discover was what did…
By: Aaron Peterson on September 10, 2015
If I were to have posted this picture of my view of my classroom last week while reading, I would have written about it telling the reader about how it is a picture of my classroom. I would tell you what each artifact in the image means and represents. I would control this image and…
By: Pablo Morales on September 10, 2015
Images are a powerful thing. The picture of a child lying lifeless on a beach can move nations to respond with urgency to a refugee crisis otherwise ignored. Videos of police mistreating a citizen can now go viral on the web, forcing cities to implement systems of accountability otherwise unaddressed. Photographs of the forgotten…
