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    The Windmills of Your Mind
    Some Will Win, Some Will Lose (and Some are Born to Sing the Blues)
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    Mulling Over School and Life Series

    By Roy Wilson

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    About this series

    Are you someone who “thinks things over?” Do you have conversations with yourself, silently in your head? If so, you are a practitioner of reflexivity. There is evidence that most people are reflexive and that there are (at least) four different kinds of reflexivity. This book uses a character from each of four "classic" American films to describe each kind of reflexivity.

    There is evidence that most people practice one of these kinds of reflexivity more than the others. In this volume, I introduce thirty-nine members of the South Denver (Colorado) High School class of 1968. I describe the kind of reflexivity they each practice, their last occupation, educational attainment, and their social status. These data set the stage for asking how, in relation to the thirty-nine individuals, different kinds of reflexivity are related (or not) to the level of social status they attain.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoy Wilson
    Release dateMay 29, 2013
    The Windmills of Your Mind
    Some Will Win, Some Will Lose (and Some are Born to Sing the Blues)

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      Some Will Win, Some Will Lose (and Some are Born to Sing the Blues)
      Some Will Win, Some Will Lose (and Some are Born to Sing the Blues)

      Some Will Win, Some Will Lose (and Some are Born to Sing the Blues)

      Roy Wilson
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      This book considers the following questions that anyone might ask at one or more points in their life. Will I be a success? Am I a success? Was I a success? In the process, it raises questions about the purposes of schooling and their relationship, if any, to "success" and "failure" in life. The intended audience consists of (primarily) the general reader who is interested in education and (secondarily) the student of schooling, who is often an aspiring, current or former teacher.

      This book considers the following questions that anyone might ask at one or more points in their life. Will I be a success? Am I a success? Was I a success? In the process, it raises questions about the purposes of schooling and their relationship, if any, to "success" and "failure" in life. The intended audience consists of (primarily) the general reader who is interested in education and (secondarily) the student of schooling, who is often an aspiring, current or former teacher.

    • The Windmills of Your Mind
      The Windmills of Your Mind

      The Windmills of Your Mind

      Roy Wilson
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      Are you someone who “thinks things over?” Do you have conversations with yourself, silently in your head? If so, you are a practitioner of reflexivity. There is evidence that most people are reflexive and that there are (at least) four different kinds of reflexivity. This book uses a character from each of four "classic" American films to describe each kind of reflexivity. There is evidence that most people practice one of these kinds of reflexivity more than the others. In this volume, I introduce thirty-nine members of the South Denver (Colorado) High School class of 1968. I describe the kind of reflexivity they each practice, their last occupation, educational attainment, and their social status. These data set the stage for asking how, in relation to the thirty-nine individuals, different kinds of reflexivity are related (or not) to the level of social status they attain.

      Are you someone who “thinks things over?” Do you have conversations with yourself, silently in your head? If so, you are a practitioner of reflexivity. There is evidence that most people are reflexive and that there are (at least) four different kinds of reflexivity. This book uses a character from each of four "classic" American films to describe each kind of reflexivity. There is evidence that most people practice one of these kinds of reflexivity more than the others. In this volume, I introduce thirty-nine members of the South Denver (Colorado) High School class of 1968. I describe the kind of reflexivity they each practice, their last occupation, educational attainment, and their social status. These data set the stage for asking how, in relation to the thirty-nine individuals, different kinds of reflexivity are related (or not) to the level of social status they attain.

    Author

    Roy Wilson

    Now semi-retired, Roy Wilson formerly served on the Editorial Board of The Society for Modeling & Simulation International Newsletter and was a peer reviewer for the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social System Simulation. Between 2001 and 2010, Roy published several conference and peer-reviewed journal papers related to simulation, small groups, and education.From 2001 through 2006, he worked on several projects (one funded by the National Science Foundation) at the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh. In 2005, the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies (in the School of Education) at the University of Pittsburgh awarded him the Ph.D. degree. In the 1990s, he taught several courses at Carnegie Mellon University in the history of computing while earning a Master’s degree in History and Policy. In the 1980s, Roy earned a Master’s degree in Humanities from the University of Colorado and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Denver University (Colorado). After consulting to small insurance businesses, he was an applied mathematician on several national intelligence programs that required employees to hold an (above) Top Secret security clearance. In the 1970s, he earned a Master’s degree in mathematics from Denver University and a Bachelor’s degree (majoring in both mathematics and philosophy) from Metropolitan State College (now University) of Denver (Colorado). In 1968, he left South High School without a diploma.

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