Ways Of Seeing And Not Seeing

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Essay Question: According to Bev Thiele (2009) who cites Berger (1972)’ “A way of seeing is a way of not seeing”. Discuss the implications of this for knowledge and learning at university. TUTOR: SARAH VEITCH Written by: Pauline Paull Student No: 31071853 Date: 27th May 2010 WAYS OF SEEING AND NOT SEEING We live in a culturally diverse world and throughout life encounter individuals from different races, religions and nationalities. This often makes effective communication challenging. Culture provide people with ways of thinking and ways of seeing and interpreting the world. This essay will discuss the implications of this knowledge and how it can affect learning at university. The areas for discussion will be the situated self which includes ways of seeing (worldview), learning within the university context, and finally the culture within the university. Understanding the situated self is that it is the aspect of the self that involves culture and social background and the surroundings of self. The situated self changes over time and it can have a past and a present. The knowing self is those aspects of the self that involves the physical body, emotions, knowledge and skills. The situated self affects the knowing self and the knowing self can develop and grow through experience. Thiele puts it this way: Giving an understanding of the concept of ‘the situated self’, helping students to think about the ways in which we are ourselves are ‘situated’ in the university, as are those we encounter in the university. To also explore the implications that being a situated self has for our learning in this place. Although The Situated Self came about the same time as Post Modernism it is not a Post Modernist Theory. But it does give us the key concepts of: situatedness, ways of seeing, and the politics of knowledge. All these
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