Within the sphere of complex thinking, in the audiovisual culture, we must embrace Howard Gardner’s concept of “multiple intelligences.” The traditional IQ test is no longer a valid medium of measurement of a student’s intelligence. This idea is especially paramount in an audiovisual culture whereby movies, video games, and Internet graphics transmit ideologies and paradigms to […]
KNOWLEDGE IS A SEAMLESS WEB!
An old French professor once told me, “Knowledge is a seamless web.” I couldn’t agree more, and all the more so in the 21st century. When one considers the context of historical, ecological, sociological, cultural, economical and political, one finds a knowledge which is the 21st paradigm of humanity—known as the global. In the global […]
GHAZALI & SUFISM
Sufism is an esoteric religion that overlaps with philosophy. So, we can posit Sufism is a way of being. Also, I should like to point out that Sufism in Persia (Iran) was a movement that began to transgress the exoteric-and institutionalized- Islam that was appropriated by the rulers of the region to control society. So […]
SOME THOUGHTS ON HABERMAS
I believe that an inquiry into issues of social justice can benefit greatly from critical theory. Habermas has believed that human beings are unnecessarily oppressed by implicit cultural ideologies. Therefore when a research uses critical theory as its framework its goal will necessarily become one of making the implicit belief systems explicit. In other words […]
IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS
It has been close to thirty years since neoliberalism and what Henry Giroux has called “the new gilded age” has brought us new conditions like globalization and militarism resulting in inconceivable inequalities, which is supported by a corporate-owned media that daily give us empty messages about “war on terror,” “support the troops,” “we need change,” “Israel […]