GEC E5-Gender and Society

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MODULE 2-Women’s Ways of Knowing

Name: TARROZA, LORRAINE S. Program: BSED-SOCIAL

STUDIES 2F

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Guide Questions

1. What are the differences among the women’s ways of knowing?

SILENCE - Silence is knowing indicates an absence of thought or reflections. Their

knowledge comes from authorities and focuses on their need to survive. In summary women
who do not have voice end up having no internal voice as well, no self-perception, and lack of
identity seprate from what is dictated to them.

RECEIVED KNOWLEDGE: LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF OTHERS - Received knowledge is developed

by absorbing knowledge. Women who learn through receiving knowledge listen to friends and
authorities, and understand what is being said for them to repeat the words. These women
see words as imperative to learning. Those under the line of received knowledge value
authority and cannot comprehend paradoxes. If two of her authority figures have contradicting
information, the women will able to distinguish which is correct. She will use arbitrary means
to decide on who is telling the truth.

SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE: THE INNER VOICE AND THE QUEST FOR SELF - Women
who learn through subjective knowledge learn to trust what is called their “inner voice” and
"infallible gut”. Subjective knowers depend on their selves and their experience to attain truth.
Women who fall under this category of learners use their intuition to decipher truth from fiction,
as they believe their institution is the only thing they can trust.

PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE: VOICE OF REASON AND SEPARATE AND CONNECTED KNOWING -

Procedural knowers learn through processes. The women utilizing this method have learned
well from formal system of knowledge . They have views that differ from what they are taught.
They then use the tools they acquired from these formal system to defend their own
worldview. Rather than moving to subjective knowledge, they learn to defend their beliefs and
rationalized their thoughts. Those who use procedural knowledge usually focus more on the
methods and less on the problem. The importance women give to connections is reflected in
who they come to learn about things. Understanding involves acquainting oneself with the
object to be known, and forming a connection with it. To understand, as women say, there
must be a forming connect with it, which is achieved by questioning what the object is trying to
show in relation to one’s self.

CONSTRUCTED KNOWLEDGE: INTEGRATING THE VOICES - In the end, women need the ability to
reflect on and accept themselves. Instead of learning to play the system, women must learn to
value their own methods of knowing and their own constructed knowledge. To do this, the
constructed knowledge must turn inwards instead of outward, with the idea that “knowledge is
constructed, and the knower is an intimate part of the known.” Women must learn to listen to
themselves in a world where the dominant voice is male, and when it stifles their own. By
continuing to listen to themselves, voicing what is left unsaid, and learning to read through the
different interactions around them, women may validate and continue their own self-
knowledge.

2. Why are there many different ways of knowing and what are their implications?

To illustrate how the epistemological assumptions of all the womens were intimately linked to
their perceptions of themselves and their relationship to their world. Each of the five "ways of
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ACTIVITY

Choose two categories under women’s way of knowing.

Ask yourselves how this way of knowing affects your way of being in and interacting with the
world. What are the positive and negative aspects of knowing?

SILENCE - it may affects my way of interacting to the world in a way of being set aside
in the corner and not being heard and prioritize. Because of my isolation and fear of
authorities or my fragile sense of my self and the feelings of being and dumb may
result for me for not having no independent voice. As a woman of my own, I must have
the courage to fight and voice out my opinion and feelings for me to be address and
respect. By being just a silent type, others may take the advantage to inflict harm and
belittle me. In that way, how can I fight for my rights if people sees me as that.

RECEIVED KNOWLEDGE: LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF OTHERS - these may affect

my way of interacting to the world in a way that I don't have the confidence in my own
ability to speak because my behaviour, perspective and values must externally related
to what societal norms says, gender roles and the expectation of others. I don't have
the position to oppose on what societal norms says and the gender roles perspective. I
don't have the freedom to interact and associate with others in my own perspective
because I must think and act accordingly to what norms, gender roles and to the
expectation of others.

The positive aspects of knowing are well-develop nation, making a wise decisions,
respecting principles and values, improve thinking and learning and helps to achieve
goals. The negative aspects of knowing are the destruction of ability and the negative
competition between men and women.

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