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Tag Archives: Gregory Bateson
Responsibility & Relationships: From You and Me to Society
This blog post was originally posted on March 9, 2016. It is 8.5 years later, and it’s even more relevant than it was then. Over the past eight months or so, my wife and I have been renting a house … Continue reading
Posted in connections-disconnections, culture, politics, relationships, social issues
Tagged congress, Gregory Bateson, responsibility, The Turtles
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What Needs to be Taught? — Part I: A History
Originally published on September 21, 2021 by Jeff Bloom During my career as an educator, which started off as a leap off of a cliff into a raging fire, I became increasingly concerned with the issue of “what to teach.” … Continue reading
Posted in community, complexity, corporatization, learning and cognition, relationships, schooling, teaching
Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, authoritarianism, Cognition, Control, epistemology, Gregory Bateson, knowledge, Politiics, Standards, Testing
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a lot of people I know are "stuck" - often for economic reasons. A few actually live in the "company…