Deeper Thoughts
You'll learn:
- some fundamental building blocks of cross-cultural education
- two rules to help understand different worldviews
- that symbols, experiences and language inform worldview
- how a simple visit to the doctor can impart completely different impressions of what illness is
- to ask a question in a respectful way in order to learn about someone else’s worldview
- that knowledge can be complex and layered, and how to recognise when you are reaching fundamental understandings of a subject through someone else’s worldview
Worldview Chapter 2
One of the Yolngu principles in life is to always larrum dhuḏi-dhäwu – search, seek and look for all the foundational information related to any subject.
Chapter 2: Deeper Thoughts does just that, giving historical examples and developing skills so we can better understand other people’s worldviews.
Understanding somebody else’s worldview can be a bit of a shock to us.
Our experience with our cultural group teaches us that there is only one way to understand something. However, this understanding gets challenged when we have to communicate with other social and ethnically different groups—the more significant the cultural difference, the greater the worldview difference.
This chapter will give us more understandings and tools to support our journey of relating to and understanding people of different cultures.
The Worldview Course includes Chapter One.