You know the time when I was trying to criticize the IB "Learner's Profile"?
I came up with a little argument, with the help of some definitions from several sources (will list later), against the toughest and thought to be the best things about IB...
Open-Mind
They understand and appreciate their own cultures and personal histories, and
are open to the perspectives, values and traditions of other individuals and
communities. They are accustomed to seeking and evaluating a range of points
of view, and are willing to grow from the experience.
ok... above is the IB description.
Now, if you think of open-mindedness as a exact virtue... you would have to think in a fairly unbiased way. You would have to see everything about a certain object or subject you want know about, in an unbiased fashion and treat them equally and fairly.
Kind of Communist, especially when you force people to do it, to get their diploma.
Ok, does an opinion affect the way you see things? YES! So does them saying that you need an open-mind mean saying you can't have an opinion? Quite so. Opinions lead to people judging things. So it isn't compatible.
So maybe the profile isn't as good as it looks?
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Right, what you are trying to say is that "open-mind", one of the several things of the IB learner profile (http://www.ibo.org/programmes/profile/) has a self-contradictory description.
I doubt if I matters that much though. We (students and teachers) are basically just going to focus on teaching/learning the syllabus, and not on something abstract like the "profile" is (maybe in philosophy, who knows).
The learner profile, I'm guessing, is just going to be used for marketing or as excuses. Learner profiles makes good handouts to (potential) parents (you know, bullet-points and stuff), or as fantastic excuses (with teachers saying "write clearly as you IB students are COMMUNICATORS" or something like that).
P.S. Firefox 3 out tomorrow!
I'm not saying exactly, that it is self-contradictory. I'm saying that an open-mind(idealism) means that you cannot possess any opinions nor judge anything until you can see the full picture.
I will agree that a degree of openness is good, but to take it as something to put in your brain is too much.
Well, that is the one thing that differentiates IB from the other programs around the world.
The Learner's profile is the central idea (to "aid" learning) of IB. It aims to create "lifelong learners".
This has to deal with the theory of knowledge. It affects how you view knowledge.
Yes, it definitely helps as a selling point, but then, they do hang it around everywhere, and students are reminded of it.
The attributes of the learner profile express the values inherent to the IB continuum of international education.
It's a pretty big idea and most of what IB is about.
Done, put firefox on all your computers!
I got all my relatives to do it too!
Spread the message!!
I've already downloaded firefox 3 once, and I'm going to download it onto my parent's computer.
I'll also tell my sister to download it when she comes back from school.
I've also updated the "get firefox" icons on the blog.
wow, imagine if we went to school and put firefox 3 on every computer! That would be fantastic.
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