What do I mean by "reflective journal"?

What I mean is very simple. This is an opportunity for you to think carefully and slowly about what we are studying in a given week. We often ask as students to problem solve, strategize, or thinking "critically" by identifying problems or issues, but we rarely ask to step back and let your mind wander over a topic that has caught your imagination, or that maybe made uneasy because of its implications.

What I want to see you do is engage in an older, more personal sense of thinking than what we often do today. As Hannah Arendt, one of our authors in this course, would say: thinking can involve entering into a dialogue with yourself, asking questions about what it is that has caught or bothered you, and exploring those questions on your own, interacting with your own thoughts away from group activities and discussion boards.

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