Word: interactionalism
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...Home schoolers are often very astute," says Richard Shaw, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale. "But they often have to learn how to live with others." Even the new home-schooling parents, who are keenly aware of this problem and try to ensure their children interact with others, sometimes miss the point. Half a dozen families told TIME that the only aspect of school their kids say they miss is riding the bus. So some of them have arranged for their children to have their own private rides on a school bus. But the singular experience of going to school...
...contributed essays to Nam's book. The girls in the book talk honestly about body images, family conflicts, dating and so on. "At home, they're dealing with a whole series of cultural expectations placed on them by their parents," says Nam. "Then they enter the public sphere, and interact with their peers. Often, they grow up in environments where they were perhaps one of the only Asian-American girls in their school. So you're dealing with a lot of identity issues." Nam says that these girls are confronted with a troublesome stereotype, that of the passive, docile, exotic...
...fear. "Ahhh. Even peace brings complications. The United Nations peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone is the biggest in the world. By the end of the year 17,500 troops from 31 armies, including large contingents from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan, will be stationed there. "Soldiers all over the world interact with women," says Lieut. Colonel James Oladipo, head of a Nigerian battalion in Makeni. "Women come to the men on roadblocks at night and play music. But our troops are disciplined." Still, in the world's poorest country, women reportedly fight over who gets to sleep with Oladipo's troops...
Play zoos go far beyond petting zoos by offering kids a wide range of ways to interact with nature. "We're opening up whole new areas of interactive play by letting kids dress up as birds, plant gardens or examine animal X rays," says Keith Winsten, Brookfield's education curator. Rather than try to impart scientific data, these zoos promote unstructured play--something in short supply for many kids today. Says Winsten: "We are providing a place for kids to do the kind of exploring that was basic to their existence a generation...
...better. Two men in leather pants, armbands and wristbands appeared, and one used his feet to flip the other one by his butt while the sound system played Part Time Lover. It was the gayest thing I ever saw, even more than the way Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel interact on The Man Show. The whole thing was just like a Las Vegas show--the major difference being that instead of spending two hours away from losing money at blackjack, you spend two hours away from Paris...