understanding
guidelines
In Genesis our ability to understand each other's language is broken on
the masonry of the Tower of Babel. How high and powerful those builders
must have been to threaten the Heavens themselves, to all speak one language
and be understood. Today language is a division, a separation. Yet one
of the great human capabilities remains our ability to understand one
another and to make ourselves understood.Chomsky's Language Acquisition
Device tells us that we are made to speak, to understand and be understood.
The twists and ties in our neurological frameworks grip onto the sounds
of human speech from infancy, making us... human.
This section of Diversity Studies is about understanding,
and language is a big part of that. Language however can be loosely defined
to cover verbal and non-verbal speech, writing and reading. I am looking
for anything on first and second language acquisition in any kind of setting.
Understanding is also about education and education often means schooling.
Whorf, Vygotsky, Bateson and so many others have seen that how we talk
and how we are taught to speak are itnegral parts of our thinking and
knowing. Language is learned in schools and so I am also looking for anything
on schooling from early childhood to early adulthood.
Diversity Studies to me is about diversity and it is about inclusion. As an editor I am going to make an effort to meet both of those goals. If you have something you feel needs to be said about any of the above topics let me know about it and we'll try to get it in.
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