Hi Carol, Welcome to the list!
I share your advocacy for gender neutral terminology, and this is well aligned with WIkiEducator's Open Community Governance Policy which is rooted in the following shared values: *diversity, freedom, innovation, transparency, equality, inclusivity, empowerment, human dignity, wellbeing and sustainability*. Reflecting back on the development of the typology -- the community intent was to associate the typology with the notions of mastery based on the metaphor of a mentored apprenticeship process. I invite you to join the workgroup which is reviewing the criteria of our community certification model (http://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster/Workgroup) as this would be a good time to revisit the terminology. It would be great to get a rough consensus from members on the list regarding your thoughts about changing the nomenclature. Pending a positive response, we can then discuss alternatives in the workgroup and assess the activities and actions required for changing the typology (for example -- the emplates used across the wiki, updating all the tutorials and references to the typology, and finding volunteers to implement the changes etc.) Thanks Carol -- great contribution. Cheers Wayne On 25 July 2010 10:44, Carol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > I'm new to this group, so "Hi" to everyone. > > I co-facilitating the current WikiEducator workshop and I came across > the WikiMaster certification. > > Now I am a great advocate of using gender-neutral terminology. > > I know that master could be thought of as mastery of a skill/subject > but even so the term has a long history of being associate with male > activity, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master. With origins in > Medieval Guilds which of course were only open to men. > > I would like to propose that a gender-neutral term be found. > > For example WikiExpert, Guru, Principal, Champion, Pro, Virtuoso > > What are your thoughts? > > Best wishes > > Carol > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
