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This-essay is a7912201.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %BLOCKAGES TO UNDERSTANDING 791220 Intellectuals often tend to look upon understanding as a technical development, without personal aspects. Rarely is thought given to the emotional, affective, psychic, spiritual, physical, social, political, and linguistic factors which may be blocking dialogue and understanding. It is not enough to present for consideration the technical components which may be related to each other --- to contribute to understanding. There may be hidden motives for avoiding the potential understanding; then understanding will be uninhibited until those motives are recognized and dealt with, or in some other way robbed of their power to block dialogue and understanding. Instruction is the process of helping students deal with blockages to understanding by: (1) Removing blockages, (2) Going around or over the blockages, (3) Transcending the language, context, approaches, etc. which occasion the blockages, (4) Other ways. Understanding is not merely a technical matter, it is also a personal matter. The development of meaningful understanding is the process of developing technical and personal integrity. Any motivation which promotes secrecy, dishonesty, fear, withdrawal, and the like will tend to inhibit the development of technical and personal integrity. Thus educators need to be sensitive to all kinds of factors, circumstances, contexts, motivations, and the like which may block dialogue and understanding; and take steps to liberate students from such blockages. Many traditions of educational institutions tend to create blockages to dialogue and learning --- without in a compensating way of eliminating other blockages. Such traditions were not created with sensitivity to the ways in which dialogue and understanding are inhibited, nor with sensitivity to the non-technical components of learning. Teachers who are really interested in helping students become persons of integrity will examine all educational traditions to see them in the light of how they affect open and honest dialogue and tragic blockages. Traditions should stand only if they (on the whole) contribute to human wholeness and integrity. We need to look for factors which tend to block our perception and understanding of inhumane traditions. Students need to be free to be in dialogue which reveals those factors and promotes personal understanding of them. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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