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THE PROBLEM WITH ETHNOCENTRISM
The limiting hazards of assumptions, final
vocabularies, and grids
Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Ethnocentrism: definition
The interpretation and evaluation of what is culturally and conceptually unfamiliar exclusively in terms of one’s own values and beliefs, which are uncritically regarded as superior and true. M. C. Escher,
Rind, 1955 Woodcut
Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Remember Saul Steinberg’s visualization of ethnocentrism…
Where we stand is
over-determined by where we sit.
Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Ethnocentrism: consequence
As a result we are unable to seeWhat is familiar in the strange,And what is strange in the familiar.
We become incapable of irony, imagination, and empathy.
Man Ray,Cadeau,
1921
Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Ethnocentrism entraps and limits
Ethnocentrism or cultural naïvité and conceptual parochialism entraps possibility within the limits of what is presumed to be unalterably given.
Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Ensnaring the imagination
It ensnares us in the reproduction of what israther than allowing us to imagine and to create what might be better.
Prepared by Dr. Martin Barlosky, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Paula & the Professore
We see both struggle with expectation, presumption, and habit as they attempt to become teachers in cultures new to them.