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Class Notes | Transcendentalism
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My Philosophy of Learning. For updates on assignments and due dates, refer to the Assignments page. You should also check in with my blog post for the week. All assignments are due in class unless otherwise indicated; the items listed under “Consider” are suggestions for your thinking and responding, but not required. Where do we find ourselves? Note course focus, objectives and medium (resources on blog):. Note card: What you are doing here (origin, areas of interest)? Due: Emerson, The American Scholar.
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Syllabus | Transcendentalism
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My Philosophy of Learning. English 394.11 Fall 2015. Office: 116 Goldstein Hours: MWF 11.30-12.30 and by appt. All course information (including assignment schedule and blog) available at this Web site : https:/ luminousallusion.wordpress.com/. Bookmark and use often). Focusing on close and intensive readings of Emerson’s texts and scholarly writing that develop those readings, culminating in the seminar paper, our exploration will concentrate around three primary learning objectives for the English major.
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Reading Circles | Transcendentalism
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My Philosophy of Learning. As a way for us to explore more texts from several major authors in the space of one course, and as a way to grasp further the transcendentalist interest in the conversational circle or club that gathers around a reading or intellectual discussion, we will have what I call (with a nod to Emerson) Reading Circles. Third circle: give a sense of what is here that has no circumference–an idea or problem that might be new to our reading, has no direct link to a past text; or s...
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Conversation | Transcendentalism
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My Philosophy of Learning. We will be exploring this kind of gymnastic and inventive reading throughout the course–interrogating it (what does it mean? Note, you may want to coordinate with others assigned that day, but that is not required. Here are the assignments for conversation leading. If you have not posted by class time or are absent on the day you are assigned and have not communicated with me in advance, you won’t get credit for the assignment:. 9/14 “Self-Reliance”: Rachel. September 14, 2015 ...
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My Philosophy of Learning | Transcendentalism
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My Philosophy of Learning. My Philosophy of Learning. Continuing Education : My Philosophy of Learning. The crux of the philosophy of education and learning that I bring with me into class can be phrased best in the words of John Dewey–a philosopher inspired by Emerson and Whitman. In. The end is learning. I am a student of learning. The course is a work in progress. The educative process I emphasize applies to the course itself. There will be a syllabus and clear guidelines. But there will also ...You a...
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Keywords | Transcendentalism
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My Philosophy of Learning. Them to another text from the author, or another author. 8220;These are not the dreams of a few poets, here and there, but man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects.” [36]. Emerson, “American Scholar”: “science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts” [58]. Nature: “Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind” [35]. And related, Experience. Related term: essay (verb): to try, to test, to experience. Emerson,...
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Writing Projects | Transcendentalism
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My Philosophy of Learning. For any citations, use MLA format [in-text citation; works cited at end refer to Purdue OWL. Each project will be submitted to Canvas as well as posted to your blog. The copy uploaded to Canvas must include each of the following in order for me to read and grade it: [1] Abstract of the essay (cover-sheet). 2] Honor Code Statement at the bottom; [3] proper citation format (including works cited) for all citations. Writing Project One: Philosophical Relations. What’s a key elemen...
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Transcendentalism | Emerson's School | Page 2
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My Philosophy of Learning. Whitman’s Gymnastic Reading. October 15, 2015. Where does Whitman leave us as readers? Once we put his book down, where are we? I think for Whitman, the answer is that we are never far from that book, even if we are meant to leave the book behind. Think of the various images Whitman presents for the metonymic relation he desires and asserts between his writing and his reader. The closing lines from “So Long! 8221; that Whitman adds in 1860 to close Leaves of Grass:. Lurks behin...
