In this compelling coming-of-age story, the search for a home and sense of belonging is paramount, yet "Shannon and Yula have different sensibilities of approaching home: one seeking an outward experience, expecting the world to come to you; the other, looking inwards".
a pedagogical process by which one takes personal responsibility for looking outward, seeking feedback and explicit information from external sources, then using these externally generated sources of assessment data to direct performance improvements.
For the present study, we used the following definition of self-assessment (Eva and Regehr 2008, p. 15): a pedagogical process by which one takes personal responsibility for looking outward, seeking feedback and explicit information from external sources, then using these externally generated sources of assessment data to direct performance improvements.
Many of us are looking for better balance and happiness in our lives, but we're missing one essential truth: We don't need to search outward for anything -- the balance we seek is already within us.
Thus the search outward begins.
The consequence is that individuals seek help for outward relief (e.g. medication), instead of taking part in the active process of making healthier choices.
This problem, combined with low salaries in the jobs that are available, is encouraging an outward flow of qualified people seeking greater career prospects elsewhere.
All Outward Bound courses — whether for people seeking wilderness experience, for troubled teenagers seeking a new course in life, or for adult professionals taking a moment to reflect on the road they've taken — follow a carefully designed arc.
Moving beyond the outward male gaze to the inner eye seeking integration.
It moves during those three months from seeking inward wisdom through loving self-education and community to seeding wisdom outward through firm and loving action, probably including nonviolent civil disobedience.
