The Culture of Power

 The Silenced Dialogue:

Power and Pedagogy 

in Educating 

Other People's Children

    Reading the silent dialogue by Lisa Delpit, it made me think about how sometimes, it is difficult to talk about other people's culture and background, because not everyone would agree on what you are saying and most likely there would even be an argument. In the article, it mentions that black people had to try to avoid talking about things about themselves like experiences at school, college or having to ignore other people because they would not agree. However, it also says that the reaction was very different when they talked to people from their own cultures. She mentions that things like these can also have an impact on classroom learning. But she is referring to all races, she is not directly referring to only black people and white people do it.

    There are five aspects of power mentioned, which are like rules, which can occur in schools or also in workplaces. She mentions that there are different learning styles for students who have different cultural or racial backgrounds. It also implies that the study system is designed for students who came from upper class family and middle class family. There is a part in the article, where it is mentioned that in the East of India, there was a group people and they did an interview but it did not go as they thought. It was a failure because the people that were supposed to help the interviewer, started asking him very direct questions and this made him not being able to answer those questions, this shows how the people that were supposed to help him, were showing that they were the ones who had the "power." But to be honest, things like this can happen in many places and I think one problem with that, can be the language barrier because the person is supposed to be prepared for a job interview, not to be asked such direct questions from a cultural perspective or sometimes it can also happen simply because that person has a very noticeable accent.

Link to the article:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eYjABUSaafTIXox9MTJCsIP1-cfVF-3j/view