Alan Ouya
September 18th 2014
ASTU – Luger
What is a “Global Citizen”? In a sentence it can be described as someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices, (Israel, 2013).
Farhat Shazad writes about “The Role of Interpretive Communities in Remembering and Learning” and I was particularly fascinated by the idea of how an individual builds memories and perceives them based on their interpretative community. 9/11 was last week, today, and the former White House Press Secretary for U.S. President George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer posted to CNN, his account of what happened on that day. (http://goo.gl/QGm6Jv) This particular article is interesting in its style of writing, and also in the way that it appears to be raw data from a primary source. However, one has to take into account that the information came through the media, which begs the question: Is this account unadulterated?
This view of what happened on 9/11 gives us a new perspective on the events that took place on 9/11 and therefore adds to the collective memory of that day. In correlation with Shazad’s essay, this article shows us another “technology of memory” used that reshapes the way that information travels and is perceived from the media.
Shazad aims to improve the relation between student and teacher by helping the teachers understand the impact of interpretative communities on their students, therefore allowing them to adapt their teaching style to accommodate for the children’s education.