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 exampe of
intelligence.Intelligence to me is the ability to adapt to "existing"
environments and should not be confined to what what was deemed as
intelligence by a few European based scholars.Because of the penchant to
categorize,analyze,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 are
one thing but whether performance on competencies is indicative of a lack
of or abundance of intelligence is a different story and subject to
debate.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 more emphasis "not how smart are you but how are you smart" The
London line model of imtelligence
still exists and is very limitin,but there are multiple adaptations of the
varieties of human intellectual expressions that dispersed throughout the
non-Eurocentric world which I name IWB-Intelligence Without Borders.
Hope this helps.Btw,check out a work by Hutt and Hutt on possible
non-Eurocentric devices.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Deep down in Florida
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