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Created: September 2, 2002
Latest Update: September 2, 2002
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Practice Module on Understanding "Knowingness"

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This teaching module is based on Knowingness: Something's Funny in Our culture.

1. Preparatory readings for module.

   • Knowingness: Something's Funny in Our culture.

2. Discussion questions.

   1. "Knowingness" could be interpret as Marlene does in Translating "Knowingness into Our Lived Reality." But Jonathan Lear interprets "knowingness" in an almost opposite sense.Understanding Knowingness. Which interpretation sees knowingness as power, and which sees knowingness as a denial of the knowledge of the Other?

      Consider that Marlene describes "knowingness" as "the power to make a difference in our own lived reality." Whereas Lear says:

      "As we begin to take these unstated assumptions into account, we may discover that what we think we 'know' is not at all like the person's lived reality. What we 'know' changes as we receive new information, and even in the areas of the most exact sciences, what we 'know' changes over time. Lear speaks of the 'established order of knowingness' being disturbed." (At p. 36.of Lear's Open-Minded.)

3. Experiential activities related to module.

4. Self-test questions related to module.

   True or False? And explain briefly why it's true or false. (25 words or less)

5. Conceptual linking we had in mind as we prepared the module.