How language shapes the way we think

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000."

CONVERSATION : MIND

HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK?

Lera Boroditsky 

Read her article HERE

How language shapes the way we think? Presented by Lera Boroditsky Lera´s Prezi Presentation

Then answer Lera´s quetions: "Why do you think the way you do? How could you think differently? What thoughts do you wish to create?

The English Effect

THE ENGLISH  EFFECT

The impact of English, what it’s worth to the UK and why it matters to the world

The English language is perhaps the United Kingdom’s greatest and yet least-recognised international asset. It is a cornerstone of their identity and it keeps them in the mind of hundreds of millions of people around the world, even when they are not talking to them.

Read  British Council publication Click HERE

ACTIVITY:  READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE CRITICALLY AND TAKE NOTES. wE ARE GOING TO SHARE NOTES AND OPINIONS NEXT CLASS.

21/5/2021

What is Interculturalism? What do you think it refers to?

According to UNESCO:

Source: UNESCO Guidelines on Intercultural Education

Source: Intercultural Cities Newsroom

Source: Museum 2.0

How do you balance the value of honoring specific multicultural practices and bridging them to build new connections?

At the Inclusive Museum conference this summer, Dr. Rick West introduced this question. Nina Simon explains that this was the first time she ha'd heard the term intercultural. She found this helpful set of definitions and diagrams:

• In multicultural communities, we live alongside each other.
• In cross-cultural communities, there is some reaching across boundaries.
• In intercultural communities, there is comprehensive mutuality, reciprocity, and equality.

Source: Museum 2.0

What do YOU think now?

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