Please take notes as you read ‘What is the American Dream?’ by Jennifer Hocschild. The author’s main points are toward the end of the piece where she identifies the flaws in each of the four tenets of the American Dream. Capture the main ideas, key concepts, and annotations. Ask questions as you read and jot […]
Arizona offers unique opportunities for direct democracy based on initiative power. In 2012 the Arizona voters, for example, rejected the Proposition 204 initiative that sought to convert a temporary sales tax that funded education into a permanent tax. “Letter to the Editor,” propose an initiative for an educational issue that needs to be addressed. Include […]
The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed almost a century ago and has still not been added to the United States Constitution. It is supposed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It was first introduced to Congress by Alice Paul, leader of women’s suffrage movement in 1923. Compare/contrast the […]
Analyze the questions with connections to social constructs influencing curriculum theory and development and provides details and examples. Are students introduced to multiple perspectives? Are they asked to provide multiple perspectives on an issue or a set of ideas?
Suppose someone asks you, “What is morality?” Explain in terms of Mill’s theory. According to classical utilitarian philosophers such as John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, morality is defined in terms of actions conforming to the principle of utility, the fundamental principle of morality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN_Zfgxg0Aw Your students will sometimes have more than one problem with which they are dealing. How do you help a student such as Kelsey succeed in your class? Kelsey Carroll has one goal — to graduate from high school — and plenty of reasons why she shouldn’t. She attends a school with one of […]
Discuss the importance of a person like Sam Kirk. Find one other person who was or is important to the Field of Special Education. Introduce this person to your classmates. Sam Kirk talks about making the transition from advertising to being a full time artist. Kirk became the first woman invited to participate in […]
It is important to emphasize that emotion norms in the workplace are determined by occupational identities (e.g., physician or nurse), as well as the social identities of the specific individuals occupying each role (e.g., female attorney or Black attorney). For instance, the characteristic emotions of a female physician (i.e., affectionate, broad-minded, cooperative, and compassionate) and […]
Social roles (including occupational roles) are associated with particular “characteristic emotions.” Drawing on insights from affect control theory, characteristic emotions may be viewed as normatively regulated affective states that individuals try to attain during interactions involving specific social roles. These normative states (e.g., that nurses should feel compassion, counselors should feel empathy, soldiers should feel […]
Hierarchically ordered settings, such as the workplace, individuals who are at the top (e.g., doctors, owners, customers) tend to have their expectations met more often than those at the bottom (e.g., nurses, secretaries, face-to-face services workers, customer service). Thus, individuals occupying higher status positions are more likely to experience positive emotions than their lower status […]
