Katherine Watson, the teacher, challenges the girls by portraying liberal ideas to the students. Their choices in life enables Watson to teach about the freedom and choice. Ms. Watson in The Mona Lisa Smile, shows how women’s lives were controlled by social structures, and examines their attitudes as a reflection of society, which is dominated my male figures. In this case Ms. Watson tries to empower the school culture and social structure. James banks defines it as a “process of restructuring the culture and the organization of a school to bring about education equality and empowerment” (Banks, 40-41).
‘Emma’ exposes the impacts of social hierarchies in the way people interact and behave with each other. This is shown through the use of satirical techniques. As Emma starts to realize the effects of her hurtful judgements formed on social class, she begins to develop a sense of self-growth and maturity. However, in order to comprehend the influences behind Emma’s puzzled decisions, it is important to have a basic understanding of the social context. In Austen’s time, the Regency Era, social status was decided by the person’s family background, reputation, occupation and wealth.
It is important to understand these two educational concepts because that way we can see the oppression, and might cause us to think a bit more about our education, encouraging us to take a few steps forward into demanding a more effective one. Giving our society a more effective education, in terms of one that will motivate students to think, will produce a new generation of people that will question the world they live in and have the liberty of proposing their own ideas and thought about the world. How is it that the banking concept obviates thinking? Simply by blocking our critical mind. The concept makes us retain a large amount of information or knowledge, but never encourages us to take it further than just “knowing” it, or to look deeper into some topic by ourselves and/or for our own personal growth.
n today's world, education is what classifies someone from another. Our education is what brings us up a level in society and lack there of, down a level. Although education is optional, the way in which its taught and preached is changing. Education is meant to broaden our abilities and minds, teaching us the necessities of life. After reading " And then I Went to School," and "College Pressures", its evident that the word education is viewed differently depending on the "students" background.
Negative behaviors and negative cycles are able to be terminated. Psychotherapy helps reconnect and establish relationships and identifies the change that needs to take place. Philosophical Assumptions In my theory I believe that people are a product of their environment. Our life is impacted by our life experiences. In our life we are given the opportunity to make decisions of change.
She is currently in a state in which she has learned all she can in her current position and wants a challenge, or to learn something new. She needs her job to arouse her again so she can increase her level of performance. In Ella’s current state certain needs are not being met so she wants to improve her situation to make it better, she needs a challenge. Marcelo noticed an opportunity for a promotion at his current place of employment. His motivation is psychosocial theory.
Part of life involves overcoming obstacles. The Myth of the Latin Woman:I Just Met a Girl by Judith Ortiz Cofer and On being a Cripple by Nancy Mairs are both focused on overcoming obstacles, and while both essays express tenacity and love for books; they are also very different in the type of obstacle they face and the culture that surrounds them. Having an obstacle in life it’s hard. Both characters show a great way to handle situations in which their hardship can bring them down. On “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl”, the author describes how the character reacts when being offended by someone because of her condition.
See, I wanna discover meself first.” This quote supports the idea that Rita believes that there’s more to life then what she is doing at the moment, she believes that in order to discover herself and her path in life she needs to further her knowledge and become more educated. Russell uses education as an influence to help bring about these important changes in Rita’s life suggesting the education is highly valued in terms of being able to get somewhere in life. Russell presents the idea that without a large and intelligent sum of knowledge it is hard to achieve your dreams in life or achieve anything further than just settling down and living the expected lifestyle of your social class. Another way Russell presents the value of education is through Frank’s apprehension in teaching Rita. When Rita first comes into Franks office, he is shocked by her willingness to learn having being used to dealing with students whom would rather be anywhere other than his classroom although he doesn’t appear to be please by Rita’s attitude in fact he seems intimidated by her eagerness.
In this play, Willie Russell has created two extremes of culture and put them together to focus on the differences between them and how these two cultures change as the play develops. Firstly there is Frank with a good job as a teacher and a large house and is well educated, who is contrasted with Rita who has a council house, works as a hairdresser and is not well educated. They first meet when Rita goes to Frank because she wants to be educated. As the play continues, Frank and Rita almost completely exchange roles as they are both unhappy with their culture and want to be more like the other. This play was written in the 1980's where the working, middle and upper classes were still used widely to determine what your culture was and how important you are to the social society at the time.
This can change the readers’ perspective, as they have a direct connection to the main character in the novel. The Catcher in the Rye is a valuable piece of literature that can help teach children across the globe the value of education even when failure seems inevitable. The main conflict in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden’s struggle versus society. The novel is based around Holden’s struggle to find his place in life among schools such as Pency Prep. Many young people across the world are in the same struggle, trying to find their place in life, and constantly struggling upstream against society.