Snea's Praxis for Love, Wisdom and Peace
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You become more philosophical as you reflect more!
I have been active at different forums, where Thais exchange their ideas in different fields, particularly about education, politics, social problems, peace & spirituality, and technology. Through these dialogs, I have had ample opportunities to reflect on life in different lights and have often become philosophical!
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17 January
Socrates' Virtue
Wikipedia summarizes some information about Socrates at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates. I particularly like the part about his virtue in relation to friendships among people. Friendships that are cultured through consturctive dialogs, I believe, can bring about peace and progress among us humankind.
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12 December
Gang--Racism in Sydney?
I spent more than two years in Sydney and a couple months in Melbourne and loved the Aussie ways! People seemed more laid-back there, and I did not experience any racist glimpse. Sydney, in particular, was and still is very multicultural and peaceful. The violence in a small town south of Sydney, called Cronulla, struck me as a shocking development. Sydney is definitely one of the most livable places on earth. What's going on in our world?
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23 November
THANKSGIVING--What it means to me
I wrote a letter to selected friends on my email list, inviting them to consider joining the Friends4Peace Network (see http://friends4peace.thinsan.com ) and emphasizing that gratefulness, or gratitude, elicits positiviteness and progress among people. Let me share the letter here again.
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16 November
A Theory of Critical Inquiry in Online Distance Education
A Theory of Critical Inquiry in Online Distance Education
By Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T. and Archer, W. (2003) in Moore, M. G. and Anderson W. G. (Eds). Handbook of Distance Education, London: LEA
Garrison, et. al (2003) do a good job in putting online learning in context. Many may still use distance education and online learning or e-learning interchangeably, but I think the distinction is useful in helping us see the development of this "subfield" of distance education in which technologies have played a big part.
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By Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T. and Archer, W. (2003) in Moore, M. G. and Anderson W. G. (Eds). Handbook of Distance Education, London: LEA
Garrison, et. al (2003) do a good job in putting online learning in context. Many may still use distance education and online learning or e-learning interchangeably, but I think the distinction is useful in helping us see the development of this "subfield" of distance education in which technologies have played a big part.
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14 November
My history and how it has put me on the current path
Trying to answer the question what we need to live for, I found an old file in which I wrote some personal reflections in a rather self-promoting because I was writing about myself following a nomination of me as a John Edwards Fellowship candidate. We are what we are and will be for some historical, sociopolitical and psychological reasons, I guess.
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06 November
What should we live for?
I often wonder why human beings have to be born?
What do we live our lives for? God? A next, better life? Or just to make the most of the time we have for this life?
I do not know much about things beyond this life, but
I believe in pursuing a great cause.
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What do we live our lives for? God? A next, better life? Or just to make the most of the time we have for this life?
I do not know much about things beyond this life, but
I believe in pursuing a great cause.
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28 October
Some casual thoughts about language education and the Thai society
I wrote this piece as part of a course I took in 2002.
It was a casual reflection on why language education should be reformed to prepare Thai students as agents of changes in their deteriorating society.
Enjoy,
Snea
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It was a casual reflection on why language education should be reformed to prepare Thai students as agents of changes in their deteriorating society.
Enjoy,
Snea
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07 July
Life on the darker side
It is very easy for us to turn a blind eye to the world
around us, especially if we care too much or only about
our own problem. I have been reading President Bill
Clintonn's "My Life" and learning much about his
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around us, especially if we care too much or only about
our own problem. I have been reading President Bill
Clintonn's "My Life" and learning much about his
character. [Read More!]
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18 June
A short message to Lou Dobbs
I used to show my middle finger to the face of Lou Dobbs on my TV screen impatiently
because I had an impression that he is an arrogant SoB, one who has not lived an intimidated life and one who lacks compassion. Well, there are things I agree with that he said, and there are many with which I disagree. I wrote a very short message to him as follows: [Read More!]
because I had an impression that he is an arrogant SoB, one who has not lived an intimidated life and one who lacks compassion. Well, there are things I agree with that he said, and there are many with which I disagree. I wrote a very short message to him as follows: [Read More!]
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What are the top xx lessons in my 40 years of life so far?
This is just a simple reflection on things that pop up as most salient
on this date that marks my 40th year on earth. I am composing this
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on this date that marks my 40th year on earth. I am composing this
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Aung San Suu Kyi
20 years and 1 day before my birthday, Aung San Suu Kyi was born.
What can I learn from this charismatic lady and what more can I do
in the next 20 years to contribute to this world as much as she has?
As a tribute to Suu Kyi on her 60th birthday (June 19, 2005), I hereby
paste some choronological summary of her life.
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What can I learn from this charismatic lady and what more can I do
in the next 20 years to contribute to this world as much as she has?
As a tribute to Suu Kyi on her 60th birthday (June 19, 2005), I hereby
paste some choronological summary of her life.
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10 May
Kingdom of Heaven
Imagine Jerusalem during 11xx, when European crusaders flocked the roads in order to reach Jerusalem and conquer it and while Muslims also wanted to reclaim the holy land. The fights went on and on, and after all these centuries of holy quests, the land is still far from what we can call, "the Kingdom of Heaven"
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27 April
Structural Violence, Critical Literacy, and Spirituality in Education
Since the 9/11 tragedy, people in the world have realized, again, that their shared globe is plagued with seeds of violence that are making brutal acts surface right in their faces. Violence that causes deaths and other forms of destruction around the world has become more conspicuous than before. Typically, we define or regard wars in Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, and Sudan as examples of violence and only physical violence, such as wars, rape, murder or massacre, street crimes, and so on that have perceptible destructive effects are regarded as violence against which people counteract. However, violence is multifaceted and a lot needs to be done to unmask it before proper and preemptive actions can be taken to alleviate or prevent its effects.
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25 April
Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice
Adopted and proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twentieth session, on 27 November 1978
We humankind have gone through enough pain and losses. They have been translated into this declaration as a guidance for our next step. This declaration deserves our attention!
I have been in education, as student, teacher, teacher trainer, and now an educator, for almost 40 years, but interestingly this discourse was never taken seriously in the circles that I joined. [Read More!]
We humankind have gone through enough pain and losses. They have been translated into this declaration as a guidance for our next step. This declaration deserves our attention!
I have been in education, as student, teacher, teacher trainer, and now an educator, for almost 40 years, but interestingly this discourse was never taken seriously in the circles that I joined. [Read More!]
