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infactispax-1087	Sheffield, Eric; Medina, Yolanda; Cornelius-White, Jeffrey	Emotion, Reflection, and Activism: Educating for Peace in and for Democracy	2011	18	.pdf	application/pdf	7951	325	46	As the means to re-engage students at the catalytic, embodied emotional level essential to learning of all kinds and to the survival of democracy, in what follows we make several general educational suggestions: first, the overriding essential educational goal of our time is to convince our students that thoughtful, peaceful, yet vehement, activism, in its various forms, and for vari- ous causes, is a democratic obligation. In Kilpatrick’s essay, “The Project Method,” he warns teachers that if a project is not grounded in what he calls a “purposeful act,” it is no improvement over more traditional, teach- er-centered, methods of teaching.40 However, when a project is initiated by student interest (an authentic “emotional” need) rather than by teacher coercion, the project becomes “life itself” and takes on a distinctly democratic character: With this general introduction, we may, in the first place, say that the purposeful act is the typical unit of the worthy life.	cache/infactispax-1087.pdf	txt/infactispax-1087.txt