Discuss professional growth and career opportunities.
– Identify talents and strengths in an educator role.
– Identify additional knowledge and skills needed as an educator.
– Develop three goals for the next two to five years; one goal will be in the area of teaching, one in scholarship and one in service.
– Discuss the actions can be taken to achieve each of these goals. Include a timetable for achieving each goal.
Write a brief introduction to the biopsychosocial framework that includes a thesis statement related to developmental theories.
Erikson’s psychosocial theory
Skinner’s behaviorism theory
Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory
Baltes’ life span perspective
Demeter and Persephone, The Second Generation of the Greek Pantheon: The Birth of the Titans, a Tahitian tale about the Cosmic Egg, or Aphrodite and Ares (aunt and nephew)
and relate them to personal experiences you have had, or that you know about from watching television, reading magazines, etc. What might the ancient story be telling us about that contemporary experience?
Is there anything that comes from the ancient story that helps frame the contemporary experience in some way, psychologically, sociologically, and pedagogically?
summarize these articles:
Safran, William. “Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1, no. 1 (1991): 83–99.
Butler, Kim D. “Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 10, no. 2 (2001): 189–219.
Palmer, Colin A. “Defining and Studying the Modern African Diaspora.” The Journal of Negro History 85, no. 1/2 (2000): 27–32.
Gomez Chapters 1 and 2
Isaac, Benjamin. “Proto-Racism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.” World Archaeology 38, no. 1 (2006): 32–47.
Snowden Jr, F. M. “Misconceptions about African Blacks in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Specialists and Afrocentrists.” Arion 4, no. 3 (1997): 28–50.
Gomez Chapter 3
Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 3-61
1. Mill argues in chapter 2 of Utilitarianism that the greatest happiness principle does not involve a denigration of humanity; that utilitarianism is importantly different from selfish egoism; and that whether an action is moral or not does not have to do with the agent’s motives.
2. What is the categorical imperative? Choose one of the two following formulations of the categorical imperative that Kant provides in the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: a. “Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law” (Kant, Grounding, 30).
b. “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means” (Kant, Grounding, 36).
Explain the terms of this formulation and why it is an appropriate rule for determining the morality of an action; and use it to evaluate whether telling a lie is morally justifiable.
