scholarly journals Walking together: Artistic collaboration across cultures in Australia and New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
Tracey M. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Home Country ◽  
World View ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Artistic Collaboration ◽  
The World

As an artist and writer who often works across disciplines and cultures, my education into effective and respectful engagement has been built on my experience working with First Nations friends, collaborators, and Elders.  The aim of this paper is to explore teachings from a number of these leading thinkers, writers, and Elders on the topic of knowledge sharing, cross-cultural awareness, and ethical engagement through practice-led research.  Drawing from personal experience, it will incorporate learnings that have informed a world view that has been evolving since childhood. The paper highlights the importance of giving rightful recognition to knowledge keepers and provides some guidance for readers interested in developing productive and respectful partnerships with First Nations collaborators. Here knowledge can be safely shared and celebrated as ways to understand the world around us that are restorative and regenerative. I speak as a woman of mixed European background raised in Australia on Gubbi Gubbi Country of South East Queensland, and Larrakia Country of Darwin. Culturally, I am descended from Norse, Celt, Saxon, and Druid ancestors. Through this lived experience I hope to share learnings that support the goals of reconciliation, truth telling, and First Nations determination in my home country, as well as facilitating greater awareness for people seeking to respectfully engage with Indigenous knowledge.

Language in Education

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-40
Author(s):  
Lawrence Moser
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
World View ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Oral Speech

Language is a way of communicating between people by the use of symbols, signs, writing and oral speech. Language is used in different ways in different communities, countries and cultures throughout the world. Lindfors (1980, p.43) suggests that language consists of three major components: Semantic, Syntatic and Phonological.Language is seen as being acquired by human beings through their own interaction with the environment that surrounds them. Human beings are able to build an overview of their language through personal experience, and also a cognitive structure developed from their world view.

scholarly journals My Room With a World View: Aging and the Paradoxes of Covid 19

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042096248
Author(s):  
Annabelle Sreberny
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
World View ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental Spaces ◽  
The Impact

The challenge of autoethnography is using my personal experience to explore broader social and political themes and to find a subjective voice to make sense of the impact of the Covid 19 lockdown. Using the optic of aging, I explore how I accommodated to quarantine life. Sitting and letting the world swirl around me in my house, I explore the altered physical and mental spaces in which I lived. Despite my own privileges, I have felt vulnerable and frightened but I have also felt angry and frustrated at the hubris and incompetence with which this crisis has been handled.

Christian Communication and Religious Pluralism: Capitalizing on Differences

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
David J. Hesselgrave
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Stepping Stones ◽  
Propositional Truth ◽  
The World

Rather than looking for similarities between Christianity and other religions as stepping-stones, bridges, or points of contact for communicating the gospel to non-Christians, the author suggests that several risks are involved in this endeavor, including the possibility of emasculating propositional truth while coronating personal experience. He then argues that it is the very differences, not the similarities, between Christianity and other religions that hold potential for effective communication of the gospel. The article concludes with three reasons why cross-cultural witnesses need training and understanding in the living religions of the world.

scholarly journals Las mujeres del teatro de Miguel Hernández: Construcción dramatúrgica del personaje

1996 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Virtudes Serrano García
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
World View ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Dramaturgical Analysis ◽  
Las Mujeres

<span class="subtitulo">This paper pays attention to an aspect in the drama of Miguel Hernández that has so far not been the subject of much analysis. Here the dramaturgical analysis of his female characters is made bearing in mind the world view of the poetplaywright in two aspects: one based on his personal experience, and the other deriving from the literary tradition he assimilated. This double vision leads him to the building of a feminine typology of archetypal behaviours determined by a canonically patriarchal world view, and qualified by the characters of the literary heroines stemming from the playwright's reading. The result is the fiancées/wives, sisters an mothers, women defending the honour that would be taken from them by force, or beloved women whose resistance makes their ardent lovers suffer. However, in En Labrador de más aire there is a feminine character that is spontaneous and authentic in her emotions, and whom the author hes endowed with an outspoken vehement nature.</span>

scholarly journals Storytelling to Teach Cultural Awareness: The Right Story at the Right Time

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McCullum Baldasaro ◽  
Nancy Maldonado ◽  
Beate Baltes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Building Community ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Right

Stories contain the wisdom of the world, teaching cultural values, building community, celebrating cultural diversity, and preserving cultural identity. Where truth is suppressed, story is an instrument of epiphany and develops metaphorical understanding. A storytelling guild in Canada had been a cultural institution for 23 years, so when the center faced permanent closure, members were devastated. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the moment of this lived experience using interviews and focus groups. Findings indicated story strengthens content retention and language acquisition. These findings led to the development of a project focused on story-centered lessons for teachers.

Improving Cross-Cultural Awareness and Communication through Mobile Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 308-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Botha ◽  
Steve Vosloo ◽  
John Kuner ◽  
Madelein van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures

Increasingly, technology is mediating the way in which the youth around the world communicate, consume content and create meaning. As mobile communication media and the internet become more pervasive, young people from different cultures and communities are afforded more opportunities for collaboration across previously unbridgeable distances. The need for cross-cultural awareness and communication is thus more important than ever. The initiative described in this article, successfully demonstrated the role of mobile phones and the web as mediating technologies in the development of intercultural competencies and communication skills among a group of teenagers scattered across two countries.[Article copies are available for purchase from InfoSci-on-Demand.com]

scholarly journals Experiential cartography and the significance of “untranslatable” words

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Lomas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

Mainstream psychology can be regarded as largely Western-centric, with its concepts and priorities biased towards Western ways of thinking and understanding. Consequently, the field would benefit from greater cross-cultural awareness and engagement. To that end, this article offers one means of engagement, the study of “untranslatable” words (i.e., terms without an exact equivalent in another language, in our case English). A key function of language is that it offers a “map” that allows us to understand and navigate the world. In that respect, such words point to cultural variation in the maps we use, and even to variation in the actual territory mapped. The paper concludes with suggestions for why and how psychology could benefit from engaging with such words.

Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Hengehold
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World

Most studies of Simone de Beauvoir situate her with respect to Hegel and the tradition of 20th-century phenomenology begun by Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. This book analyzes The Second Sex in light of the concepts of becoming, problematization, and the Other found in Gilles Deleuze. Reading Beauvoir through a Deleuzian lens allows more emphasis to be placed on Beauvoir's early interest in Bergson and Leibniz, and on the individuation of consciousness, a puzzle of continuing interest to both phenomenologists and Deleuzians. By engaging with the philosophical issues in her novels and student diaries, this book rethinks Beauvoir’s focus on recognition in The Second Sex in terms of women’s struggle to individuate themselves despite sexist forms of representation. It shows how specific forms of women’s “lived experience” can be understood as the result of habits conforming to and resisting this sexist “sense.” Later feminists put forward important criticisms regarding Beauvoir’s claims not to be a philosopher, as well as the value of sexual difference and the supposedly Eurocentric universalism of her thought. Deleuzians, on the other hand, might well object to her ideas about recognition. This book attempts to address those criticisms, while challenging the historicist assumptions behind many efforts to establish Beauvoir’s significance as a philosopher and feminist thinker. As a result, readers can establish a productive relationship between Beauvoir’s “problems” and those of women around the world who read her work under very different circumstances.

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