You

All aspects of your identity and approach to processing your experience, or “ways of knowing,” gives you valuable insight and enables your curiosity. Your particular, lived experience provides a wealth of knowledge and perspective that forms the foundation of your understanding and can take many forms. Your identity gives you a lens on your context that can reveal new ways of seeing old ideas and new possibilities.

Areas of Knowledge

  • History
  • Natural Science
  • Religion
  • Mathematics
  • Ethics
  • Human Science
  • The Arts
  • Indigenous Knowledge

YOU

  • Language
  • Gender Identity
  • Physical Abilities
  • Economic Status
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Ethnicity
  • Nationality

Ways of Knowing

  • Emotion
  • Memory
  • Intuition
  • Sense Perception
  • Imagination
  • Faith
  • Language

How might components of your identity work with your ways of knowing to provide a new perspective on an established idea or point to an unexplored idea?

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