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Honest history: we need both the lions and the hunters
Australia Association for Research in Education
14/12/2023
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Abstract
In the lingering afterglow of the AARE 2023 Conference, I find myself adrift in a sea of half-remembered conversations, keynote speeches that echo faintly in my mind, and ideas that seemed so clear just days ago. This struggle to recollect, to weave coherent narratives from the scattered threads of memory, leads me to ponder a deeper, more profound question: how much of what we call history is truly accurate? There’s an old African proverb that says, “Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero.” This simple line unravels a complex truth about the stories we’ve been told. History, as it reaches us, is often a tale spun by the victors, the dominant, the ‘hunters.’ It makes me wonder, as I sift through my own cloudy memories of the conference, how many stories have we lost? How many lions have remained silent?
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- Title
- Honest history: we need both the lions and the hunters
- Creators
- Yaw Ofosu-Asare (Author) - Southern Cross University, Faculty of Education
- Publisher
- Australia Association for Research in Education
- Identifiers
- 991013179513602368
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2014 Australia Association for Research in Education.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Blog