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From: John Kulig [mailto:ku...@mail.plymouth.edu]
Sent: August 13, 2009 1:05 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Eurocentric?
And to cover the other european intelligence test, Wechsler defines it as "the
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From: "Stuart McKelvie"
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:13:39 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [tips
Except, Stuart, the prevailing European "white man's burden" view of the time,
backed up
by the science of the time, did not accord these intelligence faculties to
non-Europeans.
And, if it did, it did not recognize anything approaching an equality of
capacity and
potential of non-Europeans to E
���Michael Sylvester wrote:
>One way to look at a non-Eurocentric approach is to consider the
example of intelligence. Intelligence to me is the ability to adapt to
"existing" environments and should not be confined to what was deemed
as intelligence by a few European based scholars.<
I agree
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From: Bourgeois, Dr. Martin
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:41 AM
Subject: RE: [tips] Eurocentric/non-Eurocentric
I don't believe that I've ever met a scientist who thinks that scie
Allen wrote in response to my response of Allen's response to Michael
Sylvester
(Common sense has a lot going for it)
>Of course it has – but in terms of understanding the natural world in
>its widest sense, other people, other cultures, etc, it also has severe
>limitations
Of course we haven't de
My friend Michael wrote under the
>Subject: Re: [tips] Eurocentric/non-Eurocentric
"...the Eurocentric approach to intelligence has and continues to emphasize
performance on paper-pencil tests and other verbal and non-verbal performances
with underlying competencies.Competencies
Michael Sylvester writes:
This emphasis on quantification has really created the impression that
without quantication other forms of intelligence may be suspect.
Imteresting enough, there has been the non_Eurocentric of the notion
of multiple intelligences de-emphasing quantification and placing
Then why don't you explain it in non-Eurocentric terms? Or are you
saying it is not anything that can be put into words?
Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org
One way to look at a non-Eurocentric approach is to consider the examp
Michael Sylvester wrote
The non-Eurocentric predominates because human culture is
much more than the relationships between measurable variables.
The Eurocentric perspective remains obstinate and obdurate
despite the common sense of culture, religion and other factors that
propels human stabilit
���Michael Smith wrote in reply to my posting below:
>I think common sense has a lot going for it.
Of course it has – but in terms of understanding the natural world in
its widest sense, other people, other cultures, etc, it also has severe
limitations.
Mike then provided instances where
>No
>Looking at human history I see the "common sense" of culture and
>religion as much a source of dissension as of "human stability". But
>perhaps Michael means individual human stability, in which case, yes,
>culture and religion play a strong role in that. But I would say at
>some cost, e.g., in pr
���Michael Sylvester wrote:
>The Eurocentric perspective remains obstinate and obdurate despite
>the common sense of culture, religion and other factors that propels
>human stability.
Looking at human history I see the "common sense" of culture and
religion as much a source of dissension as of "h
Non-Eurocentric michael sylvester" wrote:
>
> Please note that it is not
> possible to explain the non-Eurocentric within a
> Eurocentric framework.
>
Reminds me of the "Personal Growth" days where we were all told, "I can't
explain it to you, you have to experience it." The difference
t 11, 2009 11:36 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Eurocentric/non-Eurocentric
The Eurocentric perspective emphasizes scientific and experimental methodology
as the means to arrive ata certain truth.The non-Eurocentric predominates
because human culture is much
The Eurocentric perspective emphasizes scientific and experimental methodology
as the means to arrive ata certain truth.The non-Eurocentric predominates
because human culture is much more than the relationships between measurable
variables.The Eurocentric perspective remains obstinate and obdur
Michael Sylvester has been often derided here for his claims against
Eurocentric priority for scientific/medical knowledge. But see the
Robert Wilkins (1964) essay on the Edwin Smith papyrus (17th century,
B.C.) we were recently pointed to by Mike Williams
( It's at http://www.neurosurgery.org/
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