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| Topic: What does it take to form behavioral expectation(s)? | |
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as a professional educator it is my observation that too much is being said at the expense of obscuring the simplicity of the answer to the OP
-just a thought |
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Learning a common language requires trusting that the teacher is being truthful in his/her testimony/teaching... without exception. -- I think that that is an example of a universally shared behavioral expectation. well just not all foreign language is learned in school. I learned mine by living overseas many true fluents learn their second language only partly in school, if in school at all Which even further bolsters the point being made. One cannot take another at their word, which is necessary for language acquisition, unless trust is had. A teacher being one who teaches the language, not necessarily one who has the credential(s). |
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Edited by
creativesoul
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Sun 11/20/11 12:13 PM
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A quick summary of a relevant story...
I watched a very interesting show last night on Nova regarding native Americans in the Nantucket area. The people have been dispersed and 'diluted' since the 1700's to the point that their native tongue was no longer spoken, and had not been for over one hundred years. However, the English had kept fairly good records of their contacts with the locals in several areas including regarding the attempt to convert the locals to Christianity, in addition to keeping records of the 'legal' land transactions. So, there is a wealth of written documentation in the native language available, including but not limited to personal Bibles translated into the tongue by the English - all of which had the owners' notations throughout. Given this much, in addition to the fact that the local jargon/slang has retained much of the native influence/meaning, a group of the native descendents gathered in order to bring the language back. It soon become apparant that they did not have the knowledge required in order to decipher the meanings, spellings, and sounds. They employed the expertise of linguist(s) at MIT in order to help them take up the daunting task, and the lady who inspired the actions is now a linguist as well and continues to add to the native dictionary by comparison/contrast with the surviving parts of the language in local slang. Again, this hits directly upon the trust that is necessary for taking another at their word, in more than one way. There was trust bestowed upon the English settlers to keep their word. There was trust bestowed upon the natives to keep theirs. But, it is not quite so simple. The natives, having no concept of (legality)land ownership or signed contracts, could not possibly foresee what was taking place in their own lives. Their entire culture made no meaningful separation between themselves and the land itself. The elder whose responsibility it was to permit usage of the land had no idea that the trades that his group was making had the 'legal' consequences of no longer holding rights to the land itself... including the right to live there as they had been doing for centuries. |
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In closing the story...
The English then felt justified in their use of force to obliterate the oppositional "savages" should they stand in the way of 'progress'. |
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1. We do not need to know ourselves in order to have behavioral expectations. That is clearly shown by very young children, who - in any reasonable use of the phrase - do not, cannot possibly, know themselves. 2. Behavioral expectations are subject to cultural relativity, especially after language acquisition becomes a dominant 'force' in thought/belief. It does not follow that there are no universally shared behavioral expectations, if by "universal" I mean belonging every thinking human subject. 3. I'm unfamiliar with Maslow. Could you lay it out? http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoX9uX8lO30kAmkiJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dmaslow%2527s%2Bhierarchy%2Bof%2Bneeds%26fr%3Dchr-yie9%26b%3D1%26tab%3Dorganic&w=473&h=361&imgurl=cibu.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fmaslow_hierarchy_of_needs2.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcibu.edu%2Fgeneral-posts%2Fmaslow-enhanced%2F&size=35.7+KB&name=Abraham+Maslow%E2%80%99s+hierarchy+of+needs+theory+is+a+fundamental+of+...&p=maslow%27s+hierarchy+of+needs&oid=1e6528162b9033c3090f62dabc593b7d&fr2=&fr=chr-yie9&tt=Abraham+Maslow%E2%80%99s+hierarchy+of+needs+theory+is+a+fundamental+of+...&b=0&ni=21&no=9&tab=organic&ts=&sigr=11efe8eij&sigb=13plus995&sigi=11qn6vp0g&.crumb=RgKc2CdTnbe |
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I just came back to this post after some absence.
I am humbled by your positive reaction to my post, peeps. Thanks. I am buzzed right now with feeling popular. As Mahatma Ghandi said once, to Christopher Maria Lewinski-Rigaudelfoucheaourdat, "do not lose your place on the page, coz the teacher will spank you." They were both in grade two at the time. |
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I guess I shall be carried on your shoulders across the Beiwouss-Dropfelstein line of imagination. (The B-D l.o.i. is a straight line along which the thought supposedly travels to get form one point of imagination to the other point.)
If nobody shows up by eight, I guess I'll be forced to have to carry myself on my own shoulders. |
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