What is your understanding of "Physical Journeys" as described in the Board of Studies syllabus? How does the physical journey metaphor guide your thinking?
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Physical journeys are when you move from one place to another learning about yourself along the way. It involves a problem that you have to overcome. You expand yourself physically, emotionally and psychologically in this process.
This metaphor helps bring journeys into perspective and helps them make sense.
All physical journeys require some sort of decision or obstacle in which they must stand back and consider how best to approach the situation. A physical journey is all about learning things about yourself as well as things around you. If you have not experienced any of the last two mentioned than you can't really call it a journey.
Physical journeys are when you make your way from one point to another. Many hurdles are faced on the way, choices have to be made and these choices cannot be reversed. The journey is the highlight and in the end, the destination isnt really the important thing
My understanding of physical journeys is that it is a process of growth. You need to reach new understandings and realisations in the journey which have come about of being stretched psycologically and in most cases, physically.
The metaphor guides our thinking because it has connotations that we automatically mould examples into. Talking about something as a journey allows us to discover new aspects about life that we may not have realised before.
A physical journey is the traveling from one place to another and the change that happens in the person along the way. The journey that is made is the response to a decision made by that person or that of another. The physical journey has other components of it which make the journey worthwhile in some sense to the traveler. The new experiences and obstacles that are undertaken along the way or the actual accomplishment in completing the journey right through to the end. The metaphor makes people think about how a person would change as the end result of the change in a person could be as different as the surroundings of the final destination in a physical journey.
a physical journey can be when you travel to any place and something with in your is effected or changed by your journey, it can be a trip around the world or a walk down to the corner shop, its the experiences on the way that change you or effect you
Physical journeys in the literal sense mean to move from one place to another. Alot of the time it is connotated with atleast one decision and an experience that results in inner change. Life itself has been called a physical journey in the sense we grow,change and travel from home to school to work or university, learning along the way and creating the very being we are in the future. The metophor of physical journeys helps motivate us towards choosing our future to reach the reward often found at the end. Whether this be self-content, knowlegde or treasure each person's individual physical journey will shape the person in some way.
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A physical journey is when people travel to new places and overcome obstacles on the way. they provide opportunities for travelers to extend themselves physically, intellectually and emotionally as they respond to challenges and learn more about themselves and the world around them.
The physical journey metaphor helps us make sense of journeys- like obstacles are objects that are in your way, and we learn from overcoming these obstacles and so on
not nescessarily...When you begin a journey you don't always know what you will face or encounter. i think it's unfair to say it HAS to have an obstacle or learning something about yourself; esp. in a physical journey. that seem to include going somewhere
true BUT.... then it wouldnt be an exciting journey =P
pretty much all of the texts we'll be looking at will have some sort of obstacle
when does something become and ostacle and not just an experience?
think about it
kthx
Some good points here, but...
Generally, these comments about journeys are general. Vague. I hope that as we analyse texts the posts about journeys will become more incisive.
Comments that caught my eye:
these choices cannot be reversed
a process of growth...which have come about of being stretched psycologically
the metophor of physical journeys helps motivate us--ok, but how does it motivate us?
like obstacles are objects that are in your way --What exactly is behind the metaphor of an obstacle anyways?
When you begin a journey you don't always know what you will face or encounter good response to the idea of obstacle.
when does something become and ostacle and not just an experience?
think about it ok. I thought about it. Now tell me what you are on about. ;-)
obstacles, experiences its all the same ryan. think about that aye?
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peter....
obstacles = negative factors that can keep us from reaching our goals.
experiences = experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or ...
obstacles not equal to experiences
therefore peter = wrong in post above
the experience IS the obstacle.
the obstacle is taking about the problem in present tense, and possibly past tense.
the experience is talking about the obstacle in the past tense.
pwnt?
how can the experience be the obsticle wen the experience is what gets you to the end of the journey? If the whole experience is made of obticles you'lll neva get to the end, youl never acomplish your journey.
peter. even "anonymous" agrees with me; give up lol
but to explain my point more: the obstacle IS NOT the experience; overcoming the obstacle IS the experience
A journey is unknown. There is no way to comprehend what the future may bring so therefore we as humans try to understand through relating it to something we already know, something that will comfort out thoughts so that we have an awareness of what we will face.
Obstacles along the journey is what extends people. If there is no obstacle would there be any reason to extend ourselves- can we extends ourselves without being challenged. What we gain from the obstacles is the experience on how to overcome the obstacle and also the knowledge on how to tackle future problems. Obstacles need not necessarily be negative. What they teach us can be positive and how we overcome them could force us to do something contrary to usual behaviours.
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
Very good ideas 08haylsmit! Where was the quote from and why did you choose it?
& who wins, Ryan or Peter?
when you talk about an obstacle in past tense, its an experience.
but what ryan says is kinda true (but i wont admit it is)
so i guess its a draw?
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