Disclaimer: Just wanted to apologize to ya'll (my peers) for my lack of posting this week. And, my posts for this week will not be 12 hours apart. As someone committed to the learning environment, I acknowledge the absence of my contributions lessons the greater learning of the whole and doesn't maintain full integrity to our work, especially as an online-learning community. No comment is needed on this statement, just wanted to inform and dedicate myself to improvement! Now, read on...;)
Through the lens of social construction, an understanding of “reality” and of “self” is derived from multiple (or a collection of) truths; because I have been reared in one (immediate) family system doesn’t equate to our complete family sharing of “collective representations of reality” (Trenholm, 2008, p. 31). For example, my father is an environmentalist and an organic farmer. He has placed a value(s) system on “hard work” and blue-collar labor. After graduating from my undergraduate degree, my father did not understand my reasons for pursuing an advanced degree. For me, attending university exposed me to more options and invited me to explore academia further and seek a self-defined happiness rather than one controlled by him. My father is a product of the Baby Boomer generation and I am positioned on the cusp of Gen X and The Millennials. We interact and communicate quite differently based upon the internalized and imposed expectations of our generations.
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