Re: Hegemony

[Nancy Patterson <patter@VOYAGER.NET>]

Actually, hegemony is more of those spikey English rodents than you can care
for.

Nancy

At 08:19 PM 3/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I thought hegemony was the mony u bet against the big wad you put down on
>the long odds sure thing you got that hot tip from your psychometrician
>about in case it don't win so you still have bus fare home.
>
>Oh, well, it's all Greek to me.
>
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>Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:17 PM
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>Subject: Re: Gloria Pipkin in Ed Week
>
>
>One aspect of hegemony is that those belonging to a particular hegemonic
>(had to use that form of the word, of course) group is that they are often
>unaware of the influence their hegemony has on those who do not belong to
>that hegemonic (there it is again) group.  So, those who have not
>experienced a particular type of hegemony have a very difficult time
>understanding the perspective of those who have.  We see this all the time
>in education when textbooks are written in a particular "standard" dialect,
>when we believe that one form of discourse (western european) is the "right"
>form without realizing that there are other forms of discourse particular to
>other cultures, when we believe that "our" way of doing things is they way
>everybody else does things.
>
>Nancy, who just couldn't resist
>
>Nancy G. Patterson, PhD
>
>"To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can
>learn."
>
>--bell hooks
>
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Nancy G. Patterson, PhD

"To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can
learn."

--bell hooks

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