The aim of this short graphic resource is to expose the role that language plays in consolidating bias in our everyday normative thinking.

Implicit in its content is an alternative and expanded concept of ‘education’; one that challenges the existing populist focus on formal learning and vocational outcomes. Instead, it highlights (a) the importance of locating a person within their geographical, historical and cultural background, and (2) of soliciting change by the interrogation of how that adult ‘self’ has ‘become’.

The questions suggested in this introduction are designed to encourage this introspective learning journey, e.g.:

What language patterns do you use that constrain your thinking?
What has influenced your own (adult) ideas and valuations?
What evidence do you appeal to in asserting your beliefs?

META DATA

Creator | Kaihanga
Dr Deb J Hill
Year of Creation | Tau
20/01/2021
Publisher | Kaiwhakaputa
Ako Aotearoa
Creative Commons Licence
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA
Main Language | Reo Matua
English
Submitter's Rights | Nga Tika o te Kaituku
This resource is in the public domain
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