Re: Worries (Re: Diversity Issues...)

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Batista?= (jbmartin who-is-at sercomtel.com.br)
Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:13:14 -0300

Eva Ekeblad wrote
]
<If I may ask you, like I did with
> Tomasz Czub, to "tell a story" (and NOT be Academic and give us the nam=
es
> of Great Men).
> Eva
>=20

Eva and xmcaers

You solicite me one "story". I know several stories which involve
diferences. I try relate one.
I worked at one school which one pupil aided in the cleanness of the
school. One teacher seeing the pupil clean the scholar patio, tell: "This
pupil is homosexual". I asked: "Why?". "Because he is clean the patio wit=
h
one broom. This work is for women and no for men". This were the response
to my question. Immediately I commenced to discuss the questions of genre=
,
sexuality, the social construction of diferences, etc... Later, these
questions were discussed in the teacher collective.

I could perceive - in this situation an in the others - that this person=
s
have preconceptions about much things and is hard take them to one
reflexetion about their attitudes. The pre-conceptions actuate as an
"organizer" of behavior into the quotidian -this remember me Vygotsky whe=
n
discuss the functions of language. The persons have fear in front of
situations which question their perceptions, their actions, etc...=20
=09
I think that to take these persons to discuss into the collectivity thei=
r
perceptions, their posture, etc... is an situation much delicate, becau=
se
the persons can feel discrimination, threat, exclusion, etc... and to low=
er
their self-steem.

Jo=E3o Martins

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