I found this article very interesting, now that I think about it I can tell the way I talk to a teacher or professor is different that how I would approach a fellow student with the same issue. I had a good relationship with some of my teachers and when I would talk to them as a friend it would be different that if I talked to them in class. I feel lost in some classes that imply that I should know some prerec material that I never learned. Today in class was a good example, when we did math problems, I felt extremely comfortable answering those questions being an engineering major, but I wouldn't necessarily be comfortable answering a english questions that I didn't know. I like how he uses the example of religion, when you're raised a certain religion and brought into a community with multiple cultures it might be intimidating.
As said in class today, Rose's method of ending the piece with a question really made me think over the whole article and question it in my own life. Overall this was a good article, it really had me thinking of all the different ways I talk to different groups of people, and I appreciate that this is getting brought up in class because I feel like I'm on the same page as everyone.
Sometimes we don't think about why we were introduced to some ideas and skills and some not, which is why math is a good example. Not everyone is expected to learn even basic calculus, but depending on their profession, they might have to -- maybe even go beyond that.
ReplyDeleteDo you think teachers, text books, even peers use this lingo on purpose? I like to think that they don't, but there is also a kind of power maintained by keeping that lingo confined within a particular group. One example I can think of is the publication of the vulgate Bible -- or the Bible _not_ in Latin, but in translation. A lot more people had access to that theology.