>Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:18:54
>To: Katherine_Goff who-is-at together.cudenver.edu
>From: Judy Diamondstone <diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu>
>Subject: Re: unorthodox CHAT & xmca initiatives
>
>Katherine,
>
>First, I want to say that I never meant to imply that an international
>perspective on the theme of morality/CHAT would be inappropriate or
>that the important "closer to home (in the USA)" view should preclude
>the closer to home concerns of CHATers elsewhere. I thought Ana's
>ideas were very exciting and an issue highlighting the phenomenon
>of genocide would be _instructive_ for us over here who imagine
>ourselves distant from the horrors of war (or able to remove ourselves
>from the violence that takes place in someone else's neighborhood).
>
>That said, I want to second Katherine's suggestion, that stories of
>genocide not preclude our examination of "extreme ideologies" in their
>somewhat more cloaked & sanitized guise here in the USA (don't we have
anti-discrimination laws, etc....) The whole>thing is so big.
And important - it deserves our looking both
>outward (at those ideologies out there) and inward (at the "othering"
>we do ourselves &our own complicity in others' othering here at home).
In another sense of "in" and "out" (in contrast to "here" & "there")
it might also require working always from the micro outwards and
from the macro inwards?
>
>I wonder who else might be interested....
>
>- Judy
>
>
>>
>>Neither am I an expert (or even an informed novice) on international
>>expressions of racism and immorality and I agree with Judy that it may be a
>>question of scale. My inclination is to start from the micro end of the
>>scale. If racism is a narrative that a community tells to maintain the status
>>quo, then so is gender bias. And that is something that everyone is expert at
>>(or at least has the potential to be so.)Or is the international topic easier
>>or more comfortable because we can objectify it? I realize that it is a
>>preference of mine to relate discussions of such import to myself,
>>personally, as a means of understanding. If I don't see how it will teach me
>>something, I have difficulty remaining motivated. Also, I want to look
>>through other's eyes at the problems that are so close to me that I cannot
>>see them.
>>
>>So, I also hope to pursue the morality theme mentioned and that it stay
>>closer to home.
>>
>>Katherine
>>
>>****************************************************************
>>****************************************************************
>> "Baby, we can choose, you know, We ain't no amoeba." ---Bonnie Raitt & John
>>Hiatt
>>Katherine E. Goff
>>District Elementary Technology Coordinator
>>Cotton Creek Elementary Computer Specialist
>>Katherine_Goff who-is-at together.cudenver.edu
>>
>>
>>
>
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Judy Diamondstone diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Graduate School of Education Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Wise men [sic] see outlines, therefore they draw them - Wm. Blake