Category: education
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Silence Expanded
Censorship is counterproductive We all know that learning is an encounter with the “other”. Knowledge is gained by an encounter with something other than one’s own self. By meeting differences. This is also on a behavioral level – how can one know what NOT to do when that thing that should not be done is…
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“Snowflakes”
Amazing what linguistic wonders we are able to cook up in order to put other people down instead of engaging in dialogue. Quite honestly, I am prepared to say that most name-calling is thrown around out of fear of being changed. A barrier. A stopper because I would fear that engaging with a person might…
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The “Case” for Students – On Common Questionable Rhetoric in the Educational Environment.
“What case are you being assigned next year?”“What case have you got?” “Oh, my case is giving me trouble!” … You would imagine being either in a forensic department or in a luggage shop listening to these things as an LSE. The fact that we have normalized such discourse in our everyday dialogue is truly…
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Learning Support as a Philosophy. What is our Role?
Why an LSE? A foundation for the philosophy of Learning Support
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My Student, My “Other”
An interesting insight came up in the school playground not too long ago. It is extremely interesting how even within communities, even in schools, the adults or people born in different generations keep thinking of one another as “other.” Including teachers and their students. The structure of a school does raise a particular red flag.…
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Why do I need to learn these?
How many times have we heard it from our children? What is the point of Religion in our syllabus? Of Literature, history, art, music, drama, geography… I am not going to avoid being called a nerd after today. Heck, let’s just do away with them. After all, the MEA (Malta Employers Association for those not…
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Politics of Confrontation
Evil is not in confrontation but in forcing sameness and manufacturing consent. Why?
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