These documents recently turned up at my parents house. For the last few days I keep thinking about how my ten year old self seems pretty much the same as my present. I’ve studied about behavioral change and personality enough to not be surprised by such findings, but it feels a little earth shattering to […]
Filed under: personality, fostering identity, observations and opinions, goals on September 30th, 2011 | No Comments »
This week during our Discovery Day Camp we came across this Walking Stick, probably a female. The bright coloring may be a defense mechanism meant to deter us from eating it or to scare us away. Or, is she losing color because she’s dying?
Filed under: education, parks, observations and opinions on July 16th, 2011 | No Comments »
Time moves differently here.
Filed under: observations and opinions, natural landscape on June 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
Tyler Bend, a photo by cormack13
The Buffalo River holds my most treasured Arkansas memories. It is the place where I learned to navigate a canoe, eat dinner out of foil packs, explore cliffs, and connect the importance of social and natural environments. Rivers of the world speak their own languages according […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 6th, 2011 | No Comments »
“…[a sensible quality, like the color blue,] which is on the point of being felt sets a kind of muddled problem for my body to solve. I must find the attitude which will provide it with the means of becoming determinate, of showing up as blue; I must find the reply to the question which […]
Filed under: observations and opinions on June 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Even before Obama was president-elect, probably as soon as he secured the democratic nomination for President of the United States, I began thinking about how I would attend his inauguration. For me, Obama winning the election was more than just getting rid of Bush or buying into hype, it was the first time I had […]
Filed under: politics, future, fostering identity, observations and opinions on January 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
This is an article I want to pass on to my students:
“Neuroscientists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky received a 2002 Nobel Prize for their 1979 research that argued humans rarely make rational decisions. Since then, this has become conventional wisdom among cognition researchers
Contrary to Kahnneman and Tversky’s research, Alex Pouget, associate professor of brain and […]
Filed under: personality, fostering identity, observations and opinions on December 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Eventually this will be either reality or the next Lost. Hopefully we won’t have a fleet of spaceships with hierarchies of civilian classes experiencing food and water shortages and poor educational opportunities.
photo credit:chefrandenchefranden
Filed under: future, observations and opinions, goals on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
When talking about the natural landscape/environment here so far (i.e. environmental justice, environmental planning, identity, and motivation to care about the natural environment), where and what is the “future”? When I think of “our future environment” my mind immediately jumps to spaceship oxygen gardens.But, unfortunately the majority of earthlings do not have spaceship access, much […]
Filed under: gardens, future, observations and opinions on June 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a paper proposal slightly off topic for this blog, but, the idea of civic engagement and youth participation is increasingly central to bringing environmental justice to the forefront of American minds.
The authors and discussion topics so far approached in this course have centered on how we define American national identity and […]
Filed under: fostering identity, observations and opinions, social justice on May 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
