|
Philosophy doesn't provide cookbook solutions to the many dilemmas we face in day-to-day practice. However, it can help us to understand ourselves and why we make certain decisions. The educational role of the Extension professional is much too important to leave to mere chance or tradition. Philosophy provides an informed alternative. How strongly do I hold these beliefs? The key question in understanding one's personal philosophy of adult education is the strength to which we're committed to certain values. Raths, Harmin, and Simon suggest that it's possible to distinguish between three levels of a value.8 Acceptance of a value is a tentative belief in a given position, preference for a value means that we're willing to actively pursue and be identified with the position, and commitment is a strong belief in a position, often expressed as conviction, faith, or loyalty. The value of this distinction in practice is that it can help us know where to focus our energies and "choose our battles." A value to which we're committed would obviously be more worthwhile to defend than one that we merely accept.
|
|
Our urban society's increasing ignorance of its need to obtain necessary goods and services from natural resources is accompanied by a predictable alienation from the underlying philosophy of natural resource management-conservation. The very idea of "use without abuse" for sustained yield of renewable natural resources is becoming increasingly foreign to an urban populace...
|
|
Read more...
|
|
"An organization that stands for nothing, falls for anything," is a thought that comes to mind when I think of the need to update the philosophical base of the Extension System. Yes, I do agree. Extension needs to not only update its philosophical base, it needs to ensure that the philosophy, once updated and adapted by the system, truly acts as the foundation on which the organization and all of its activities are based.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next > End >>
|
| Results 4 - 6 of 17 |