Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Unit 1 Holistic and Non-essentialist perspective on Bellevue College.

In the United States citizens go through a process of learning called the formal education system. They are entered into the system at a young age beginning something called Kindergarden around their 5th year. http://www.rentonschools.us/DistrictPage.aspx?dept=RentonSchoolDistrict&pagename=FrequentlyAskedQuestions#3

After 13 years of this formal education they then make a choice about whether to voluntarily enter higher education. The focus here will be higher education at a location called Bellevue College. It can be found in the United States. It resides in a state called Washington State and a city called Bellevue.


The people who attend Bellevue College start off as applicants. They must go through a process to gain permission to participate in higher education. 



Once admitted and registered for classes they are now considered students. They will either sequester themselves in rooms with someone called a teacher who will talk at them for several hours while they write down what they have been told.

The students will then study what they have written down and read assigned texts provided to them to help them understand what the teacher has told them.

 Periodically the students will take breaks to play games like these three returning from having played Baseball.

Most importantly there are lots of options for food to help the students keep up their energy while participating in all of this learning.

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  1. This post ended up being an intermediary step towards a posting by the whole team that I am part of in the class. You can find the full version here:

    http://anthropologyofussociety.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/unit-one-studying-culture-and-society/

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