J.J. Smolicz on Education and CultureJ.J. Smolicz on Education and Culture is a selection of some of the major articles written by the author during the three decades in which he has been teaching and preparing teachers in the Faculty of Education, University of Adelaide. The book focuses on cultural diversity in Australia, core values and cultural interaction, case studies in Australian pluralism and the interplay between tradition, education and change. These issues are considered in terms of Smolicz’s contribution that individuals construct personal cultural systems from more than one cultural heritage. |
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Page 114 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Page 284 - A value differs from a thing in that it possesses both a given content, which distinguishes it as an empirical object from other objects, and a meaning by which it suggests other objects — those with which it has been actively associated in the past..." 43 "Humanistic coefficient" and "value" are inseparably intertwined ideas which relate to and interpret each other.
Page 84 - regional or minority languages" means languages that are: i traditionally used within a given territory of a State by nationals of that State who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the State's population ; and ii different from the official language(s) of that State ; it does not include either dialects of the official language(s) of the State or the languages of migrants ; b "territory in which the regional or minority language is used...
Page 104 - Core values are singled out for special attention because they provide the indispensable link between the group's cultural and social systems; in their absence both systems would suffer eventual disintegration. Indeed, it is through core values that social groups can be identified as distinctive ethnic, religious, scientific or other cultural communities.
Page 118 - ... transmission, as well as their integrity and cohesion. In the case of language-centred cultures, their survival in a viable form is dependent on the preservation of the mother tongue of group members. In these instances the language is more than the medium of communication and self-expression but is a symbol of ethnic identity and a defining value which acts as a prerequisite for "authentic
Page 55 - ... tongue, English represents an additional language, rather than the sole and unique means of communication.
Page 113 - Despite Copernicus, all the cosmos rotates around our little globe. Despite Darwin, we are not, in our hearts, part of the natural process. We are superior to nature, contemptuous of it, willing to use it for our slightest whim.
Page 113 - It has become fashionable today to say that, for better or worse, we live in "the post-Christian age." Certainly the forms of our thinking and language have largely ceased to be Christian, but to my eye the substance often remains amazingly akin to that of the past. Our daily habits of action, for example, are dominated by an implicit faith in perpetual progress which was unknown either to Greco-Roman antiquity or to the Orient.
Page 104 - Rejection of core values carries with it the threat of exclusion from the group. Indeed, the deviant individual may himself feel unable to continue as a member. Core values are singled out for special attention because...