EDUF1018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Decision-Making, Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, Kindergarten
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Whose knowledge counts: western schooling cognitive imperialism, eggplant/aubergine, something that you eat. Perspectives: people approach topic differently, are any of these knowledges untrue, no = all of these knowledges are equally true and valid. Building a case for multiple ways of knowing". Eggplants, foucault and teaching children and young people. A body of anonymous, historical rules, determined in time and space for a given social, economic, geographical or linguistic area, the conditions of operation for enuniciative function (foucault, cited in mclaren, 2009, p. 72) It is possible to know one thing using multiple, true" knowledges. What is a curriculum - and does it mandate teaching about eggplants: remember that there are lots of ways of knowing one thing it depends on what knowledge system you"re drawing on. From the perspective of critical educational theorist, the curriculum represents much more than a program of study, a classroom context or a course syllabus.
