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- Title: Skilled Dialogue: Weaving Webs of Connectedness Across Diverse Voices and Identities.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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"The good teacher must stand where personal and public meet, dealing with a thundering flow of traffic at an intersection where 'weaving a web of connectedness' feels more like crossing a freeway on foot." (Palmer, 1998, p. 17) As differences increasingly challenge our willingness and ability to connect with others, it is important to rethink our understanding of diversity. Cultural and linguistic differences, as well as differences of other sorts, are all too often perceived only as potential or actual obstacles to desired communication and interaction. Yet, this is only one aspect of their nature. Up until now, we have tended to underplay their other aspect: their nature as life-enhancing opportunities. Growing data on the need to recognize and preserve diversity at the biological and environmental levels highlight the need to recognize and preserve this aspect of diversity at human and cultural levels (Nabhan, 1997).