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In an assignemnt for Philosophy for Education, my group is looking at the statement "I believe that primary education should prepare students for taking action to create a better, more sustainable future for our world." As tempting as it is to start exploring the almost rudementary subjectivity of what is means to "prepare students for taking action" and deifing what a "better, more sustainable future for our world is", we were also given a key text to base our argument on. Basically the text suggests that the future of our world is one of "globalisation", blurring the boundaries between country/culture/nationality and a fostering of "planetism" - the feeling of greater allegience to the plant and its life support systems than [...] to their country (Hickerling-Hudson and Ferreira, 2004). This means that as an educator, it is my 'mission' to "make perople aware of the breadth and narrowness of their own personal circles of concern [oneself and family, one's community/others, other species and the planet] and to be able to visualise and map them. Then the challenge is encourage people to expand their circles until they embrace the whole Planet" (Ellyard 1999, p. 131).
Surely this view is advocating the sense of "open-minded" and "acceptance" that so willingly undermines the truth of the gospel. A plague of post-modernity smudging and blurring any sense of truth and real-ness, with the abstract nonsense of sin-stained human "logic" and "reason".
At Creation, God created man (collective) and placed him as ruler of and carer for the Earth, and thus far we have done a not so great job. Hickerling-Hudson's (et al.) view on the future of our society demonstrates a move towards man making heart-felt attempts to fulfill this role, whilst eliminating God as the Creator and centre, instead instituting man, more specifically social justice/"the greater good" as a model for our utopian-type goals and concerns.
blah, bleh blech and blargh. see i can be the arrogant philosophical type!! A plus plus. Torso takes silver.
Surely this view is advocating the sense of "open-minded" and "acceptance" that so willingly undermines the truth of the gospel. A plague of post-modernity smudging and blurring any sense of truth and real-ness, with the abstract nonsense of sin-stained human "logic" and "reason".
At Creation, God created man (collective) and placed him as ruler of and carer for the Earth, and thus far we have done a not so great job. Hickerling-Hudson's (et al.) view on the future of our society demonstrates a move towards man making heart-felt attempts to fulfill this role, whilst eliminating God as the Creator and centre, instead instituting man, more specifically social justice/"the greater good" as a model for our utopian-type goals and concerns.
blah, bleh blech and blargh. see i can be the arrogant philosophical type!! A plus plus. Torso takes silver.