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- Title: Learning to Understand Sense of Place in a World of Mobility: An Educational-Ethnographic Approach *.
- Author : Journal of Thought
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 218 KB
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The Study: Background and Method In this paper we explore the linkage between identity and place, reflecting upon the extent to which people derive meaning from their situatedness in a place. In a time of mobility, preoccupation with this issue becomes all the more acute. People move around: some migrate to improve quality of life; others, for political reasons, professionals travel to long distances for the ideal job, yet others for higher education on a temporary or permanent basis. As a result of all of these movements, whether from one area of large nation-states to another, with considerable differences in cultural styles, or from one country to another, and the consequent exposure to multiple viewpoints they entail, people learn to appreciate the synergistic potential of cross-borrowing of knowledge and of reliance on a variety of knowledge bases. This exchange is valued because it increases appreciation for comparatively oriented, context-derived approaches to knowledge. Our imagination is expanded by novel styles of conducting business in a global economy.