Tall Tales and Ripping Yarns

Autor/in	Dorling, Danny
Titel	Tall Tales and Ripping Yarns
Quelle	In: Adults Learning, 21 (2010) 8, S.16-19 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0955-2308
Schlagwörter	Racial Segregation; Colleges; Ideology; Fiction; Foreign Countries; Bias; Beliefs; Adult Learning; Adult Education; Higher Education; Story Reading; Classics (Literature); Childrens Literature; Adults; United Kingdom; United Kingdom (England); United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rassentrennung; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Ideologie; Fiktion; Ausland; Belief; Glaube; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	In a country in which, even after the economic crash, there are plenty of resources to go around, people need to think hard about why inequality persists so much more strongly in Britain than anywhere else in Europe. The cause, the author wants to suggest, is a set of deep-rooted, hidden and unacknowledged beliefs, each unjustified yet passed off as an unfortunate fact of life; natural, innocent and long-standing. The author suggests that the five tenets of injustice today are: (1) elitism is efficient; (2) exclusion is necessary; (3) prejudice is natural; (4) greed is good; and (5) despair is inevitable. In Britain, educational apartheid is sustained by the belief that prejudice is natural; that some people are inherently less deserving and less able to do well in education or at work than others. The author points out that it is not just the acceptance of these beliefs by a few that perpetuates inequality and injustice in lands of plenty, but the reluctance of many others to confront them. It's important that educators challenge these beliefs and encourage others to do so, and that parents give their children the tools they need to build something better. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. Renaissance House, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester, LE1 6TP, UK. Tel: +44-1162-044200; Fax: +44-1162-044262; e-mail: enquiries@niace.org.uk; Web site: http://www.niace.org.uk/publications/adults-learning
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10