Human Sciences
To what extent are the human sciences reliable? Can human behavior be subject to laws in the same ways as the material world?
What constitutes good evidence in the human sciences?
What constitutes good evidence in the human sciences?
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Psychology
Brain - Language - Behavior
Scope and Application
Open the Google Doc title HS - KF and start developing the scope and application
To what extent may knowing different languages change our concept of identity?
AD: When the frog gets a kiss and turns into a prince, is it still a frog or a prince?
Draw from your understanding of the way language and identity works to answer the question.
Draw from your understanding of the way language and identity works to answer the question.
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
In which ways may knowing different languages change our concept of the world?
Hypothesis I
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Hypothesis II
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DA: |
What do you know about the way languages are used/constructed to create meaning/knowledge?
Translation = What have you learned so far? Are there any questions that you still have? Can you transform those questions into knowledge questions? |
More Historical Developments
Answer this:
Constructing an Imaginary Language
Links to Personal Knowledge
Aims:
Develop an awareness of how individuals and communities construct knowledge and how this is critically examined.
Develop an interest in the diversity and richness of cultural perspectives and an awareness of personal and ideological assumptions.
Instructions
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1. Think of the sounds of the language (phonetics)
2. Create the words (semantics) 3. Create the rules and grammar (syntax) 4. Design the alphabet (symbols) 5. Think about the possibility of changing the way you view normal things such as colors, members o a family or other daily concepts and create a proposal for a new way of naming such things with the language that you have created. 6. Be ready to present your proposal. |