Alon,
.....but that's my very point........
words and language can alienate.
If people don't understand what I say....if they find
my language confusing, frustrating and
impenetrable...then perhaps I am shutting them out of
conversation....not intentionally perhaps...but
nevertheless I might exclude people, creating
alienation by the way I speak or write.
Some of the language of practitioner research
irritates teachers I know because they find some of it
complex, couched in unfamiliar phrases, using
unfamiliar words.
By using this language to them, am I am not excluding
them, and ethically, perhaps, am I being insensitive
and inconsiderate ?
Certainly I ought to consider my audience when trying
to communicate.
What do you think?
Brian
Brian E. Wakeman
Education adviser
Dunstable
Beds
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