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Methodology Check In

Outline of Our ASM

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Our ASM will teach careers and opportunities, and how to interview to get your dream job as well as to aspire to fulfill any long-term goals you may have planned. What we will do is, first we would explain the endless opportunities in the field. We will probably tailor this to business as our audience will be Baruch students. Then we will have an info-session on how to interview do’s and don’ts. The info-session will consist of the texts, primarily by Descartes and Emerson, which will be an open-discussion on the importance of individuality and learning through experiences. After we will have a little brainstorm activity and conduct a little mock interview. The brainstorming activity will be an analysis of how the students’ actions can either hinder or promote employers from considering them as potential candidates for their business. The exercise will coincide with the texts and the ways in which they relate to the student’s career choice. Finally, we will then have some students commentate on what exactly they want to accomplish in their life and the ways in which they hope to help others, not just working just to make a living. Our ASM will happen at Starbucks near Baruch. It is convenient for our ‘students’, since they will be Baruch Students. Additionally it would be more down to earth and less like a traditional classroom which would help our test subjects in a moral sense as well as influence them to be more conscious of what exactly they want to accomplish in their fields. The time would be in the afternoon. This time is more convenient for the students as they will be near the campus. Additionally, many students are not be morning people, and we would like for them to get the most out of this. Also, if they’re not morning people they may not want to participate. Our materials are handouts for the info-session. Papers and pens for the review portion of our study.

Steps

  1. The group would first market and find two participants for the study
  2. The group will prepare the handouts for the session and schedule a time with the candidates
  3. We will have a table at the coffee shop, and will bring the participants there
  4. Barry will introduce the purpose of our study.
  5. Michael during the whole process will be taking notes on the students’ reactions and progress.
  6. Barry and Eric will provide information on the perspectives Emerson and Descarte have on schooling and education. Then, they explain career paths and the do’s and don’ts during an interview.
  7. Barry and Eric would ask for them to brainstorm a little about what they have learned and inform them of the interview. They would also open to questions.
  8. Ronghui and Terrianio will conduct the interview.
  9. Ronghui and Terrianio  will open to questions
  10. Ronghui and Terrianio  would conduct a mock interview on the two students
  11. Michael will asks the students to share their thoughts on whether or not the actual interview experience enhance learning. E also takes notes on their feedback.
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Response to “Ideology of Rousseau and Descartes”

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In response to Eric Chan’s post “Ideology of Rousseau and Descartes”, I find similar feelings towards the two philosophers and the way they approach education. Rousseau explains to the reader what he thinks of education, and the three types he categorizes education in, this being: “from man, from nature, and from things”. (Rousseau 1) Throughout the excerpts of “Emile” that we have read, there is a use of the word “nature” to describe how this type of education is how it just happens, something we, as humans, have no control over. It is, according to Rousseau, the best way of learning, because if man is educating you, you are confined and are not allowed to adopt on your own. Similarly, Rene Descartes describes his experience with the so-called “education” which he thinks is best learned through experience, rather than in school. After completing his studies in one of the most prestigious schools, he still states, “For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced I had advanced no farther in all my attempts at learning, than the discovery at every turn of my own ignorance”. (Descartes 1)

As a result, Descartes decided to go on his own after that and travel the world, where he thought he learned more than he had ever read and learned in school. “The child who reads cease to think, he only reads, he is acquiring words no knowledge” (Rousseau 14) is what Rousseau writes in the topic of learning through reading. I agree with Eric in that there is only so much information one can grasp through reading and learn through theory. It is only through experience that a student can also make mistakes, which they will later learn from.

It is significant to note that the philosophers did not completely disregard the teachings through someone else, and the things we learn in school, as Descartes states, “I still continued, however, to hold in esteem the studies of the schools. I was aware that the languages taught in them are necessary to the understanding of the writings of the ancients…” (Descartes 1) and Rousseau believes that one type of education is from man. However, both philosophers believe that we should go off on our own and learn from experience to truly understand something, see it for ourselves rather than have an abstract idea about it.