Shyam Sharma<\/p>\n
As nativism and jingoism, racism and xenophobia are\u00a0raising their\u00a0ugly heads around the world, is it enough for educators to focus on the local and logical? How can we extend local understanding of issues to\u00a0cross-contextual\u00a0perspectives and complement logical\u00a0thinking with\u00a0ethical approach\u00a0to learning an teaching? Below I\u00a0link a post that I wrote for a blog run by writing teachers at my university (in Stony Brook, New York). \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The first semester of my teaching in the United States, about a decade ago in Kentucky, one student wrote an essay arguing, essentially, that the United Nations is an inefficient organization run by corrupt foreigners. After supporting this claim by citing various dubious sources, including articles from conspiracy theory websites, he proposed that the US take over and unilaterally run that place instead. I found the paper so shocking that I wondered if the writer had a psychological problem, so I went to the director of the program for advice! It turned out that among people embracing a certain political ideology in this country, the student\u2019s argument could be just a logical solution to a genuine problem. I learned a good lesson.<\/p>\n — feel free to leave comment at either place and share away. And please send new posts to us at edcontexts@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shyam Sharma As nativism and jingoism, racism and xenophobia are\u00a0raising their\u00a0ugly heads around the world, is it enough for educators to focus on the local and logical? How can we extend local understanding of issues to\u00a0cross-contextual\u00a0perspectives and complement logical\u00a0thinking with\u00a0ethical approach\u00a0to learning an teaching? Below I\u00a0link a post that I wrote for a blog run … Continue reading Logical, Local, Ethical, Global<\/span>
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