[MD] Teaching without Values
David M
davidint at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Sep 26 16:46:42 PDT 2008
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> [Arlo]
> Inserting the word "good" here places us right back in the boat. When
> considering anthropology or paleontology, is the "Bible" a source of good
> evidence and conclusions? No matter how you slice it, the Academy has to
> make
> value judgments on information of some sort. It would be impossible not
> to. And
> once you are in that arena, it becomes "exclusionary" to some information
> while
> "privileging" other information.
>
DM: Fair enough, but we are not often enough explicit about this and state
the values
being used. This needs to be improved.
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