{"id":881,"date":"2016-07-26T00:58:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/?p=881"},"modified":"2016-07-28T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:47:46","slug":"flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/07\/26\/flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first aspect which comes to L2&#8217;s mind when she is asked about &#8220;Western&#8221; teaching styles is that they are very structured. In her opinion, they lack the flexibility which is needed to &#8220;throw in a story&#8221;, to have students &#8220;express their thoughts and ideas&#8221; and to &#8220;allow for [&#8230;] discussion to happen (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/03\/06\/interview-with-l3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interview with L2<\/a>). The last two aspects in particular, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/07\/26\/connection-to-students-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">connect the content to the students&#8217; world<\/a>. L3 addresses a similar idea when he suggests that teachers should &#8220;make some adjustments&#8221; in their teaching practice to &#8220;engage with\u00a0[students&#8217;] life and experience&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/02\/28\/interview-with-l2\/\">Interview with L3<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As the Aboriginal Studies classes provide this flexibility, S3 perceives them as &#8220;more relaxed&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/04\/03\/interview-with-s3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interview with S3<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of all quotes relating to flexibility, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/07\/27\/quotes-for-flexibility\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To get to the overview over all categoriesand further explanations, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/categories\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first aspect which comes to L2&#8217;s mind when she is asked about &#8220;Western&#8221; teaching styles is that they are very structured. In her opinion, they lack the flexibility which is needed to &#8220;throw in a story&#8221;, to have students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/2016\/07\/26\/flexibility\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[345399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}