By: John Muhanji on October 28, 2018
The moment of learning since Hong Kong is now with some books I thought may not be carrying much but they are the critical books I need all the time from now until I finish my dissertation. Learning how to study by Derek Rowntree and the current book of Critical Thinking by Richard Paul and…
By: Karen Rouggly on October 25, 2018
I’ve struggled a lot with imposter syndrome. Imposter Syndrome, or imposter phenomenon, is generally defined as a very real and specific form of self-doubt.[1] My personal favorite definition is that it’s a “hotmess of harmfulness.”[2] In fact, if I’m being completely honest, I’ve felt it a lot in the last 8 weeks. As an Enneagram…
By: Harry Fritzenschaft on October 25, 2018
Obviously, before arriving in Hong Kong for the first Advance of LGP9, it was wise to read Jackie Pullinger’s Chasing the Dragon and Steven Tsang’s Modern History of Hong Kong. While I am unsure of the reasons of the order of the other subsequent texts of DMIN 717, Richard Paul and Linda Elder’s Critical Thinking:…
By: Nancy VanderRoest on October 25, 2018
As I sit here at Metro Hospital in Grand Rapids this afternoon with my Orthopedic Doctor son (who ironically just underwent orthopedic surgery earlier today for an old football injury that has continued to plague him), I’ve been critically thinking about critical thinking. I honestly believe that our perceptions in life direct our pathway through…
By: Mary Mims on October 25, 2018
Recently, I taught on the story of David and Bathsheba, from the perspective of a Woman. Being a woman myself, this was not hard to do. In my preparation for the teaching, I not only prayed, but I also read many scholarly commentaries and journal articles on the interpretation of the story. Although I came…
By: Wallace Kamau on October 25, 2018
Is it possible that I have been making sub-optimal decisions that are egocentric and sociocentric, even the decision to take this doctorate and I should go back to the drawing board again? I’m convinced that I made a wise decision to add to my skills through this doctorate which, confirms that I have some…
By: Rhonda Davis on October 25, 2018
When I was growing up, members of my church hosted a “progressive dinner” every Christmas. Those who had the most elaborately decorated homes would host portions of the dinner. Appetizers would be at the first home, soup and salad at the next, entrée at the third, ending with a dessert buffet at the fourth home.…
By: Tammy Dunahoo on October 25, 2018
Bayard’s How to Talk About a Book You Haven’t Read and Adler’s How to Read a Book became irrelevant when approaching the potent twenty-four-page work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder, Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools. The words were few but packed with truly societal changing possibilities that took this reader on a journey of…
By: Andrea Lathrop on October 25, 2018
I had a counselor and coach who I started meeting with in 2002. He would ask me such difficult questions in our sessions together, usually along the lines of ‘why do you think that is?’ or ‘what do you think about that?’. My default answer was more often than not ‘I don’t know.’ One session…
By: Mario Hood on October 25, 2018
What is the name of the symbol in this image? Chances are you will say the symbol in the image is a hashtag to be used on social media but before August 27th, 2007 most people would have known this symbol as a pound sign primarily associated with the telephone or with numbers. August 27th,…
By: Sean Dean on October 25, 2018
I grew up in a town on the coast of Maine. The majority of the people in my community were Quebecois, immigrants or children of immigrants from the Canadian province of Quebec. This fact made it so that our city was very white and not just because of the mounds of snow that would fall…
By: Harry Edwards on October 24, 2018
“I wonder…” Those words shared by Dr. Jason Clark was meant to convey a particular posture in how we study and learn. I forget exactly the context in which it was shared, but it was one of his talks meant to encourage our cohort to hold our ideas, thoughts and learnings loosely. The memory still…
By: Digby Wilkinson on October 24, 2018
Wahoo. After learning how to read (Adler), and then not read (Bayard), and then to synthesise what we have or haven’t read in some useful way (Rowntree), we now get to think about what we have or haven’t read, in a critical way (Elder). So, after zipping through Paul and Linda Elder’s Critical Thinking: Concepts…
By: Jenn Burnett on October 24, 2018
Imperialism is out of vogue these days. Truth be told, even the game Risk makes me uncomfortable. I think my children hesitate to invite me to play for fear I digress into a rant on the tyranny of imperialism instead of just rolling my handful of dice. The trade off is that I can’t bring…
By: Rev Jacob Bolton on October 24, 2018
Egocentric thinking results from the unfortunate fact that humans do not naturally consider the rights and needs of others…We do not naturally recognize our egocentric assumptions, the egocentric way we use information, the egocentric way we interpret data, the source of our egocentric concepts and ideas, the implications of our egocentric thought. We do not…
By: Nancy VanderRoest on October 19, 2018
So…what’s the point? Why would anyone write a book about telling someone else about ways to study? Rowntree noted that he didn’t write the book to tell anyone how to study, but instead to introduce various ways of learning. Yup, that makes it clear as mud! Sometimes, books really hold little meaning, as noted in…
By: Wallace Kamau on October 19, 2018
I have always been very keen on issues about healthy living and I have read alot about keeping healthy in a wholistic way. It’s common knowledge among my friends that I am well informed on matters of health and they consult me frequently. I fear that when I am finally conferred the Dmin degree, many…
By: John Muhanji on October 19, 2018
What a Relieve! From the time we left Hong Kong, the challenge of self-organisation has been significant and especially balancing the work-related, family and reading assignments. On arriving back home, there was much waiting for me and without settling down to access the situation before getting straight into them, I jumped into them. There was…
By: Shermika Harvey on October 19, 2018
Greetings to the lucky finder of this GOLDEN TICKET from Professor Derek Rowntree!. Present this ticket at the main entrance of this educational journey at nine o’clock in the morning of the fourth day of September. Do not be late for the book given on this day will unlock critical patterns to change the course…
By: Karen Rouggly on October 18, 2018
Have you ever heard the phrase, “It’s in the bones” or that heard that you might feel something “deep in your bones”? Essentially, it means that when you learn or understand something so deeply that it becomes a part of you. “While bones frequently evoke images of death, they also may evoke resilient images of…
