Paula Gómez

MICHAEL SANDEL: WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY 1.     How does Michael Sandel support the thesis that "over the past three decades we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society? The difference is that a market economy is a tool for organizing productive activity while a market society is where everything is up for sale, it is a way of life. Marketization of everything has corrupted the value of our acts. As some examples by Michael Sandel which shows that although money corrupts people’s values, they can be motivated to do things just for the results or the values they can get from it and not just for money. 2.     What sorts of arguments are offered for and against the assumed proposal of paying young children two dollars for every book they read? Some of them were in agreement with paying children for each book they read because that reward could maybe motivate them and make them to start loving reading. But others were...

STEPHEN BROOKFIELD ON CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING SUMMARY In this presentation, Dr. Brookfield explains how to challenge students to think critically and creatively. Based on the sentence: “Who we are as teachers is significantly framed by who we have been as learners”, he talks about the problems he had taking exams as a student, and how that fact allows him helping other people with the same problem. According to Brookfield, Critical thinking prepares you to take informed actions and Creative thinking is to move outside your habitual typical mental framework. There are three kinds of Assumptions: Causal, descriptive and pragmatic. For example, an assumption is that depression is caused by external circumstances as reasoning with yourself. While the counter-viewpoint is that depression is a flaw in chemistry and we can deal with it using meditation and music. Also, there are four intellectual traditions, natural science, critical theory, pragmatism, and the most ...

TASK 1: Emotional and self-management -For me, the emotions that are most difficult to manage when disagree with me are anxiety and frustation. The reason why I become anxious when someone else desagrees with me, is that I feel that the other person is winning the discussion but I have to deal with it trying to accept others' perspectives and realizing that I am not always right. I also get frustrated when I do not find the necessary arguments or the best words to expose my point of view. I think that I can deal with this feeling if I work on expanding more my vocabulary. TASK 2: Influences in my thinking -For me, the influences on my own thinking that I need to be most aware of so they don't prejudice my thinking are preconceptions and skeptical beliefs. Preconceptions are often constructed by bias, buy I recognize that I have to deal with those thoughts as we have to be opened to new and different beliefs in a critical discussion as well as skepticism. TASK 3: Cha...