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• Othering Education New Stories about Difference
• Week 13
• Non-western Philosophies

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• Topics
• Othering
• Power
• Western ideologies
• Knowledges, coming to know
• World views
• Indigenous ideologies
• Non-western ideologies

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• Othering
• Difference
• Other - what we are not
• Stereotypes
• Saids orientalism conjuring images of fear,
  distrust and antagonism
• Hegemony

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• Power
• Hegemony
• Locus of control
• Social heirarchies that reinforce social,
  economic,political locations (realities)
• Tolerance power to be intolerant
• Use of force to maintain existing inequalities

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• Knowledges and coming to know
• Scientific validation Vs Etherial understanding
• Proof Vs Knowing
• Knowledge Vs Knowledges
• Right wrong Vs Ways of knowing
• Learning Vs Coming to know

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• Western Ideologies
• Imperialism
• Colonialism
• Whiteness and rightness
• Equity and globalisation
• 1st world, 2nd world, 3rd world global hegemony
• Materialism

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• World views
• The culture that primarily values technology or
  individualism is definitely objective, while a
  culture that values the family, nature and the
  celebration of life is surely identified as
  subjective. Whether you are Hawaiian or not, if
  you primarily relate to life and people on a
  personal level, you are subjective and have a
  major conflict of interest in the present Western
  objective style of ethics.
• Patrick KaanoI Hawaiian writer

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• Centuries ago you white people chose the path
  of science and technology. That path will
  destroy the planet. Our role is to protect the
  planet. We are hoping that you discover this
  before its too late.
• Reuben Kelly Elder, Thainghetti people

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• Aboriginal peoples live in the dream state of
  vision. As Native people we are trained to bring
  dreams up into reality, into the real world. As
  a Native person I am trained to bring out
  peoples visions. I am a dream maker trained to
  make peoples dream a reality. I am totally
  involved in a dream in the making.
• Douglas Cardinal Canadian Indian Elder

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• You have noticed that everything an Indian does
  is in a circle, and that is because the Power of
  the World always works in circles and everything
  tries to be round. The Wind, in its greatest
  power whirls. Birds make their nests in
  circlesthe sun comes forth and goes down again
  in a circle. The Moon does the same, and both
  are round. The life of a man is a circle from
  childhood to childhood and so is in everything
  where power moves.
• Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk) Dakota Indian Elder

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• Whenever we pray we always pray mitakuye
  oyasin, for all our relations. We pray for all
  of the black people, all the yellow people, all
  the white people, and all the red people. We
  pray for all our relations.
• Latoka Indian Elder

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• Primal cultures are essentially much alike, as
  proved by the universality of their myths but
  worldviews, beliefs, and attitudes of primal
  socieities are so fundamentally different from
  those of the modern Western society that what may
  be perfectly logical to one group may seem
  bizarre and incomprehensible to the other.
• Herb Kawainui Kane Hawaiian Kupuna

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• Indigenous ideologies
• Transactional Vs Interactional
• Objective Vs Subjective
• Rational Vs Eclectic
• Individual Vs Communal
• Religious Vs Spiritual
• The day before yesterday and yesterday are not
  the same as today.
• Swahili proverb

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• Non-western ideologies
• Animism
• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judiasm
• Rastafarianism
• Rosicrucianism
• Shinto
• Taoism

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• Tasks work in pairs
• Choose a non-western or indigenous
  philosophy/ideology that you currently know
  nothing about and research that philosophy. Each
  person, in each pair should research a different
  philosophy.
• The research should involve an investigation of
  the belief systems and their impact on
  educational processes within the society.

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• Tasks continued
• Each pair is to write up a brief (500 words)
  synopsis of their chosen ideologies.
• Each pair is to compare/contrast their chosen
  ideologies with contemporary western education
  processes (300 words)
• Email your 300 word compare and contrast to
  mcmaster_at_usq.edu.au

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• Some useful websites to assist you
• http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/youngbe
  ar/1994.htm
• http//www.nd.edu/skim/academic/asianvalue90.htm
• http//jpdawson.com/modrelg/relafri.html
• http//www.euronet.nl/advaya/index.htm
• http//members.aol.com/AfriPalava/index.html
• http//www.augustana.ab.ca/janzb/afphilpage.htm
• http//www.geocities.com/archaeogeo/cosmology.html
  
• http//mb-soft.com/believe/indexa.html
• http//www.thecclc.org/Gathering/cobscook.html
• http//www.foley.gonzaga.edu/colldev/diversity.htm
  l

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• http//www.laofamily.org/culture/hmongculture.htm
• http//www.dickshovel.com/Banks.html
• http//www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1863/ind
  ex.html
• http//www.indians.org/welker/natlit2a.htm
• http//www.seasite.niu.edu/crossroads/russell/isla
  m.htm
• http//www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/religion.
  html
• http//members.aol.com/MrSage365/Taoist.html
• http//spiritgatherings.org/pages/naraya/learnings
  .html
• http//www.ualberta.ca/bleeck/canada/firstntn.htm
  l
• http//saxakali.com/CommunityLinkups/online_educat
  ion.htm

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• http//home.earthlink.net/slopdawg/Pagan/5faq/faq
  .html
• http//members.aol.com/heraklit1/faqs.htm
• http//www.wovoca.com/site.htm
• http//www.geocities.com/soho/lofts/2938/templetoc
  .html
• http//www.sacredhoop.demon.co.uk/AMAIN-PAGES/Hoop
  HomeFrame.html
• http//www.studyweb.com/History__Social_Studies/in
  digtoc.htm
• http//www.tamilnation.org/history.htm
• http//www.mexica-movement.org/theology.html
• http//www.mamiwata.com/history.html