School Organization: Components and Traits
Components of the School as an Organization
A school, as an organization, comprises several key components:
- Objectives/Institutional Purposes:
- Explicit or implicit guidelines that direct the organization’s activities.
- Provide the rationale for the center.
- Continuously reviewed and updated through democratic and participatory processes.
- Resources:
- Assets available to the school to achieve its objectives.
- Personal: Teachers, students, parents (protagonists of the educational process).
- Materials: Building,
Contemporary Philosophy: Science and Social Critique
Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy developed from the nineteenth century onward is characterized by diverse, sometimes conflicting, currents and trends, but primarily by its critical and suspicious attitude. The dialogue with science and the technical implications for society and individuals will be a benchmark of contemporary philosophy. Science, like philosophy, also seeks rational explanations. However, philosophy is not a science or a similar type of knowledge, nor does it add to science. Why
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The Art of Pantomime
Pantomime is a performance in which actors express actions, emotions, and characters through gestures, movements, and body attitudes, without using spoken words. It primarily consists of arm and hand movements. While mime focuses on purely emotional expression, pantomime conveys specific ideas. A complete performance often integrates three arts: singing (choir), music (orchestra), and mimicry (actor).
Advantages and Disadvantages of Pantomime
Advantages:
- Uses a universal language.
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy: Language, Logic, and Meaning
Initially, Wittgenstein believed language could perfectly represent thought. He thought language reached a limit, expressing all that was meaningful. Beyond that limit, language lost meaning and expressed nothing. He believed thought made language possible (Analytical Philosophy). Later, Wittgenstein criticized this initial position.
He questioned how we know the world has a logical structure that language expresses, and how language itself has that logical structure. Is using language to demonstrate
Read MoreUnderstanding Political Power: Sovereignty, Institutions, and Legitimacy
Understanding Political Power
Political power is a form of power whose purpose is characterized and does not depend on individual wishes and desires.
Sovereignty
Sovereignty is the property of state power that makes it independent of other forms of power and superior to them all.
Society and Power Structures
Society is a stable group of people organized under a law or basic constitution and ruled by sovereign power structures.
Institutions and Governance
Institutions or structures are government or sovereign
Read MoreSociological Perspectives on Food, Culture, and Work
Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism focuses so strongly on the commodity itself that other aspects of the social context are ignored. Commodity fetishism obscures the true social relationships involved in making a product. Example: Chocolate. Many workers in the Western African cocoa industry are children, and a significant percentage of them are enslaved.
The Durkheimian tradition tends to focus on understanding how society comes together to function as a cohesive whole. Durkheim emphasized how
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