Justin+Detmers

====I’m Justin Detmers, and I am thrilled to be part of MSU’s [|College of Education]! My background is in teaching High School Social Studies and I also have a degree in Philosophy. Among other things, I’m interested how Social Studies education intersects with worldview. If you’ve clicked over to this page, I assume you know a thing or two about Social Studies, but what about worldview? ==== Well, according to Apostel (I took all this from //wikipedia//), a worldview is an [|ontology], or a descriptive [|model] of the world. It should comprise these six elements:
 * 1) An [|explanation] of the world
 * 2) A [|futurology], answering the question "where are we heading?"
 * 3) Values, answers to [|ethical] questions: "What should we do?"
 * 4) A [|praxeology], or [|methodology], or theory of [|action].: "How should we attain our goals?"
 * 5) An [|epistemology], or theory of [|knowledge]. "What is [|true] and false?"
 * 6) An [|etiology]. A constructed world-view should contain an account of its own "building blocks," its origins and construction.[[image:ViKissDad.jpg width="384" height="255" align="right"]]

And, it seems appropriate to have an interesting video on this page… SO, how about something from poet (and former teacher, I might add) Taylor Mali?

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