Been thinking about international "service learning trips" & how so many students are taken to countries in the Global South & are given no information about the legacy of colonialism there. Doing so allows stereotypes to flourish in what should be a space of critical engagement.
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It's essential to give students the historical tools to make sense of the world around them. It's not a matter of being "objective." Keeping this history from them is an intentional decision with real implications for how they process the things they see when they travel abroad.
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I think of this often specifically related to faith-based missions trips. Very few of these Christian organizations are reckoning with their faith leaders’ roles in colonialism.
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absolutely, and that failure of reckoning, as we’ve seen in many organized faith groups across the world, can cascade into failures to reckon with and be honest about other problems these groups continue to have
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Mmmmm I'll take "Perpetuating the Cycle" for $400 Alex
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I did this when I was 17 and very readily admit it was stupid. I'm just lucky that it sparked my curiosity in the history I was never taught, which I've been interrogating ever since.
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Compounding failures, at every stage of education
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This reminds me of Chimamanda Adichie’s point in her Ted Talk I show my students every year. “...to disempower a people, tell their story, and start with ‘secondly’...”
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@ClintSmithIII: What fits it median to draw on a youthful man to a rural far they've ne'er subsisted to and to deep pocket theft piece in an orphanage…Hvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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