Recently I had the opportunity to join a SKYPE conversation among several international educators. We were all talking about how, over the years, we had kept journals of various kinds, some chronicled our travels and others were about our teaching experiences. We talked about sharing or not sharing that information. Then someone raised the issue of keeping a blog -- which many international teachers have begun in recent years. We talked about private journal blogs, for example. One of those joining the conversation later sent me this link: http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2011/10/19/the-power-of-blogs-or-occupysc/ It is an interesting blog postings about the power of blogs; it was posted by a Science Librarian named John Dupuis. He presents a pithy overview and he concludes with this statement: "...blogs are certainly a way that scholars can take back their scholarship and control how it is disseminated."
I have spent several days thinking about his summary statement and other information in the link. He is right. We as scholars, especially international scholars, almost have an unstated responsibility to share what we know about working in multicultural situations, especially if someone can benefit from it. By this I do not mean that you should say "School xyz is not a fun place to work!". I mean we should share the cultures we come to know in ways that will benefit those who are not so fortunate. I mean we should share the things we learn from our multicultural students and how they meld -- or the challenges they face. Maybe you know a lot about things that, as a scholar, you need to share via a blog.
What do you think? Do you have a blog you want to share?
Thursday, February 28, 2013
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