Essays on Essentialist

Description of the Philosophy

The ‘Essentialism Theory of Education mandates that the fundamental role of all academic institutes, specifically schools, is to transmit basic social and cultural norms to all students with the goal of helping them integrate into society and function as effective and efficient members .

Human Nature

Aspects The principle on which Essentialism is based states that all human beings are imbued with a standard set of learning abilities. Therefore, children require a systemised environment in which their foundational ability to compute numbers, learn different languages, appreciate artistic creations and learn life lessons from the study of history are polished. The rationale here ...

Frederick Hoffman as well as Nathaniel Shaler, two of the early defenders of exploratory bigotry, were more critical of setting up race associations in the United States than the more considered, yet less mainstream, artists at the time such as Mary White Ovington or even W. E. B. DuBois. In spite of the fact that a few liberals endeavored to dismiss natural determinism instead of focusing on carrying out healing undertakings, even Franz Boas considered blacks to be mediocre, whereas Gunnar Myrdal diminished the significance of segregation amongst the police as well as law benches in the improvement of ...

Speaker Note

Queer theory is defined as a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. It challenges “essentialist notions of homosexuality and heterosexuality within the mainstream discourse and instead posits an understanding of sexuality that emphasizes shifting boundaries, ambivalences, and cultural constructions that change depending on historical and cultural context.” (Queer Theory, 2016) “To queer” means to consider “normal” sexuality as strange, to reconsider the notion heterosexuality as a natural social and sexual norm and advocate the notion of “non-straightness,” protesting agaisnt the hegemony of “straight” ideology. ...