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  1. Oct 2017

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    1. Hence, an exploration of how different institutions commit resources, time, and policies to teaching improvement would be a fruitful area of future investigation.

      Teaching Culture Perception: Documenting and Transforming Institutional Teaching Cultures

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    1. Institutional culture and quality teaching should be considered together, as there is an important relationship between institutional culture and teaching (Stein, 1997). T

      goodness, is that what that article was saying?

    2. a culture with improved teaching quality is likely to lead to improved student engagement and learning

      this makes an assumption that we are teaching "good" things. what about a business course that ignores climate change? or a sociology course that doesn't mention intersectionality? is this important to consider? must we implicitly trust that we are teaching towards a common goal?

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    1. An escalatory chain of eventsoccurred; the construed authority of the guards was enforced by the submis-siveness of the prisoners, tempting the guards to further and increasingly ille-gitimate displays of the power that their authority allowed them to exercise,leading to further humiliation of the prisoners

      isn't this used as reasons for informed consent in the ethics process. does that make this a bad example?

    2. Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo (1973) designed anexperiment that resonates with government practices that are accepted as nor-mal and routine in many societies

      stanford prison experiment

    3. ituational obligations arise

      people felt obliged to do what they were asked to do in a specific situa-tion, which tended to override more general and abstract moral principles thatthey might also hold.

    4. In organizations designed tobe more polyphonic through more inclusive governance and representation,there would be less need for illegitimate means of resistance

      did Clegg not just say that all forms of resistance were illegimate?

    5. able to exercise power when they control or have the necessary knowledge tomaster uncertain zones in the organizational arena

      technology is a great example of this; knowledge of systems; computers, applications, etc

    6. If you had a choice, would you spend eight hours a day with thepassing parade of megalomaniacs, incompetents, and cruelly brutal gossipsthat people most offices and other organizations?

      is this even a coherent sentence? I think Clegg has PTSD from Office Space.

  2. Sep 2017
  3. Mar 2017
    1. in an effort to actively navigate the changes of 1830-1870 as the expansion of Canada’s borders and white settler communities reshaped cultural and economic practices and marginalized Métis populations

      Perhaps this could be a new sentence. I don't like long sentences I lose my train of thought.

    2. Complementary to these historians’ arguments, the primary sources, including Norbert Welsh’s memoir and several photographs, provided evidence of the impact of these societal changes as well as the diverging interests of white settlers and the Métis

      Great sentence: good sourcing, evidence-based claims and links to the previous sentence nicely.

    3. Through an analysis of the viewpoints of three different historians and primary documents based on education and mental institutions and the ways in which reform was sought to improve them, it becomes clear that there are several key concepts that connect these types of reform together through distinguishing features.

      Is this an example of a passive voice?

      Reworded:

      Three historians analyses of primary documents highlight several key concepts that connect educational and mental institutional reforms.

    4. Through an analysis of the viewpoints of three different historians and primary documents based on education and mental institutions and the ways in which reform was sought to improve them, it becomes clear that there are several key concepts that connect these types of reform together through distinguishing features

      This sentence is too long. It annoys me how many times I had to read it to understand what's being said here.

    5. Though women were marginalized in the public workforce, they utilized their social position to find ways to earn a living and contribute to society

      What happens to women who do not have a high social position?

  4. Jan 2017
  5. May 2016
    1. It is beyond the scope of this course

      you say this a lot. Perhaps just focus on framing what is within the scope of this course. I don't think we need to keep apologizing for not being about everything in the universe.

  6. Apr 2016
    1. Evaluation ComponentGrade WeightDue DateForum Posts20WeeklyClass Contribution10WeeklyResource Share15To be SelectedDebate25To be SelectedCritical Analysis Paper30March 29, 201

      assessment

  7. Feb 2016
  8. Jan 2016