Following the song

Listening, learning and knowing

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  • Published 20220127
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Click here to listen to Lisa Fuller read ‘Following the song’.

Western knowledge is increasingly problematic because of its dominance over other people’s world knowledge and learning systems, its innate belief in its superior- ity over all forms of ‘knowing’, and its claims to universality when it is only a ‘particular’ way of knowing.

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