Our Lives Matter - Our Lives Matter S1E32: Privilege versus Adaptation

Our Lives Matter S1E32: Privilege versus Adaptation

07/04/24 • 22 min

People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to pursue what they value in life, and they think of more ideas in the process. The idea of privilege is one way people talk about how differences in people’s abilities, environments, and ideas affect the outcomes of what they do in life. Recognizing that is a big part of understanding the diversity of humanity. Within a high school you can meet diverse people who each have their own stories about how they’ve used their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives. In a college you can...

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People live their lives using their abilities and ideas in their environments, and they think of new ideas in the process. The ideas they think of and learn over the course of their lives affect how they see the world. What does education psychology tell us about that? Teachers use principles of learning in school to make ideas memorable. How do those principles play out with ideas that we learn outside of school, and how does that affect how we remember them? ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We’ve been talking about conflicts between worldviews. People live their lives...

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