Friends
As long as the non-western countries are living on 'western knowledge'
which we consume right from our nursery talk of culture for these
nations are meaningless. The whole educational paradigm is based on
western content and pedagogy.
Unless one creates knowledge there is nothing called one's own culture
worth talking about. The whole issue of colonization is this.
Colonized are the ones living on others knowledge.
So what ever experiments can happen is with in the western cultural
sensibilities. In this case, culture is then a product and not a
process as even knowledge is a product with out a process.
Jinan
On 23/07/2017, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 6:05 AM, Susan Hagan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Back in February, I asked for help to encourage my Middle Eastern and
>> South Asian students to explore design style from their own cultural
>> perspectives. My experience had been that work tends to reflect Western
>> styles. I am grateful for your insights and examples (and I must
>> apologize
>> because one note to me was lost despite my many searches).
>> Now I want to report back. (additional apologies for the lag time.)
>
>
> I'd like to thank Susan for following through on her original question to
> this list and doing her informal experiments in her class in Qatar. She
> was in the perfect location to explore the questions that she had raised on
> the list.
>
> This is what we need more of on this list. Questions, supportive responses,
> and then the collection of evidence to help guide further hypotheses and
> investigations. Susans' work is not controlled enough for definitive
> answers, but it is suggestive enough to direct further studies.
>
> ---
> Have hope, list readers. Despite the sparring that often takes place on
> this list, there is also a helpful, constructive spirit that underlies the
> list. So just skip over or delete the sparring, but do pay attention to the
> substantive, helpful discussions.
>
> Thanks, Susan, for following through. (And thank you Gunnar, for some
> tho9ughtful probing questions which gave us even more things to think
> about.)
>
> Don
>
>
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