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      World-view perspectives

      Whitehead, David
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      Whitehead, D. (2005). World-view perspectives. In S. May, M. Franken & R. Barnard (Eds.). LED 2003: 1st International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity, Refereed Conference Proceedings and Keynotes, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 26-29 November 2003 [CD-ROM]. Hamilton, New Zealand: Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, The University of Waikato.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/3233
      Abstract
      The foundation of a tolerant society is an ability to foster and

      respond to the diversity of perspective among its people. Cognitive

      psychologists have described how perspective influences information

      processing, while our innate ability to adopt perspective has been established

      by neuropsychology. Literature, through the use of point-of-view, together

      with results from researchers adopting socio-cultural paradigms suggests

      perspective is also a social construct. An ecologically-based framework is

      described that provides cohesion to the temporal, spatial, universal and other

      types of world-view perspective associated, predominantly, with indigenous

      cultures. Culturally responsible types of creative and critical thinking are

      evoked when world-view perspective is engaged while reading text and

      reading the world. World-view perspective provides us with a means of

      critiquing the construction of knowledge through the de-construction of

      dominant discourses, re-valuing of indigenous world-views and reducing the

      relational distance between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.
      Date
      2005
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      Conference Contribution
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      Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, The University of Waikato
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