I strive for teaching that becomes an opportunity to inspire and empower. As a teacher, I see myself as a messenger of knowledge and as a co-learner. I believe that in my classrooms transformative learning can take place when the boundaries between teacher and learner are blurred, and through a dialogical mode, new epistemologies are […]
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Jung Quotes
“Poets create from the very depths of the collective unconscious, voicing aloud what others only dream.” (_CW_ 6: 323) “What is stirred in us is that faraway background, those immemorial patterns of the human mind, which we have not acquired but have inherited from the dim ages of the past.” (“The Structure of the Psyche” […]
HOW DO WE CARE?
Ethics of Care In approaching the discourse on planetary thinking, we can benefit from a feminine-informed philosophical movement (pioneered by the prominent American feminist, Carol Gilligan) known as ethics of care. This philosophy posits that in contrast to male dominated ethical outlooks with emphasis on universal moral rules and so on, women focus upon solidarity, community, […]
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I am contemplating writing a polemic essay on the role of intellectuals! Public intellectuals not only have the obligation to help citizens of the planet to understand their world, but also to coherently make arguments for moral choices to be made by all. We as complex beings live in a complex world and are connected to each other. As such […]
300: Proto-fascism and Manufacturing of Complicity
“Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form […]