Educating: A Memoir

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Thanks for your comment. I do use aromatherapy on occasion and love my aloe vera. I just don’t advocate extreme use of either when medical emergencies warrant hospital care. I agree….I haven’t seen/felt a misrepresentation of The Church of Latter Day Saints either in Educated. I’m sure me review has not sold any copies for them. But that wasn’t the intent. I was asked to just say what I felt was fair. So that’s what I did. I believe the family is hurting. I do not wish to throw any more dirt at them. My review is simply a thorough research of both books, maintaining an objective viewpoint from what I discovered. Thanks for your comment. As to the career of midwifery, I don’t have personal experience. When we lived in the Boise, Idaho, area s ome of our neighbors were involved in midwifery that ended in tragic results. In 2010, midwifery in Idaho became legal, requiring proper licensure. My own two deliveries ended up being long and complicated. I believe we would have lost my second son had we not delivered at a hospital and needed their NICU. There are pros and cons to using a midwife. It’s not on my personal radar, so I don’t research it.

The final chapters offer models for the possibility of an expansive notion of ‘educating for the Anthropocene’. Drawing on activists and analysing their organisations’ mobilisation strategies, two modes of agnostic pluralism (AG) were captured: the embrace of differences and politics. In Pashulok, the focus was on intergenerational knowledge linking memories of the past to imaginaries of the future, while in Wentworth intragenerational mobilisations meant building bridges to find commonalities of struggle in spite of differences in identity or social location. For example, the issue of air pollution in South Durban became a bonding agent between groups previously segregated based on race and class (176). Sutoris makes the case that where AG is valued, there is a higher chance of politicised education as it enables a variety of processes and pedagogies (201). Linked to this are ideas of ‘radical imagination’ and ‘intergenerational dialogue’. These foster the antithesis of bureaucratisation and depoliticisation, creating education that fuels political subjects and agency. Much of what happens in a classroom is highly variable and hard to define, but over the last 10 years a wealth of books has sought to draw together evidence from other fields and provide a series of “best bets” on what might have the greatest impact on student learning. Here are just a few of them. Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham Later, Westover reconnects with Charles, but is unable to act romantically towards him because of her conservative upbringing. Remembering Gene's and Shawn's abuse towards her, results in Westover terminating her relationship with Charles.

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Val and one of his sons experienced severe burns. Again, they were treated with herbal salves but no hospital care or western medicines for the pain. Miraculously, they both survived. Homeopathic remedies can be used in conjunction with other medical care, but the Westovers often chose not to pursue these options during their various illnesses and extensive injuries. Religion It is also interesting that the business was built taking plants by robbing nature and now I think it is just international trade in chemicals which drives it. Using the word “crazy” is so hard to hear because it’s insulting to everyone with this illness even though it manifests in different ways. Many people with diagnosed schizophrenia that take medication early on and consistently never experience another psychotic episode again. Unfortunately, since Val was unmedicated, his actions to his family are abusive. Whether claims of him almost crushing her in the junk yard are true or not, his paranoia of the government and medical establishments created an unsafe environment for his family. It seems that Tara’s mother excelled in the creation of herbal tinctures, salves, and compounds, based on what she wrote in Educated, as well as a survey of the herbalism of that region of Idaho. LaRee may have made homeopathic compounds as well – we don’t see a clear distinction – but my point is that the terms are not interchangeable, any more than are “quilts” and “blankets,” or corn liquor and corn syrup.

Yes, I know… this might seem pedantic… but to we who use these concoctions in our work, the terms matter. Scientifically, they just are not interchangeable.

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Robin: Westover's second-year roommate. She helps her adjust to living with strangers and other aspects of life off the mountain. Audrey Westover (pseudonym): Westover's only sister. She helps their mother with the herbal business. Although not close, Westover and Audrey together confront their mother about the abuse they suffered from Shawn. Audrey later cuts Westover out of her life, fearful of being disowned by their parents. She is the fifth child, 5 years older than Tara. At times, Travis can be belligerent and obnoxious and intimidating” (p. 291). And then she goes on to praise him, referring to him as unselfish and deeply loyal. “Society has rightly taught us the value of watching for the warning signs of abuse,” LaRee states. “Even when looking specifically for it, I saw nothing that caused me concern.” I’ve looked at satellite imagery on Google Maps but I can’t definitely pinpoint the feature.. although I’ve spotted something that might be the Indian Princess. Charles: Westover's first "boyfriend". Clouded by her father's teachings, Westover is never able to get intimate with Charles. She ends up distancing herself from him when Shawn's abuse gets worse and he tries to tell her that Shawn's behavior wasn't normal. They remain friends to this day.