Kumashiro defines ‘common sense’ as what everyone should know. It is something that is different around the world and throughout different lifestyles. What people grow up learning and which is apart of their normal life knowledge and/or routine. For example, it is common sense to eat but to different people that might not mean three times a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner but only two big meals in a day. This can also be seen in how people view water, time, privacy, and other displays of life. Someone's common sense is based on different assumptions, expectations and values of their life. Common sense is what you should be doing or know how to do. It is the basics of life that everyone should have a common and general knowledge for these specific things based off of societies certain lifestyles.
It is important to pay attention to ‘common sense’ because everyone's understanding of common sense is different. Just because someone believes that something is common sense or normal does not mean it is to someone else. Common sense can take many shapes and forms around the world. Especially being somewhere else in the world and teaching, how they teach and what they should be taught can be very different things compared to somewhere else. For example in the article Kumashiro talks about how even though he was trying to introduce new and different things the students had their own views of how and what they should learn or be taught. For them it was common sense to focus only on the things that would relate to their end of year test as that was most important and was deemed important throughout their life. Nature vs. Nurture can also play a role in common sense, what the people have learned of been taught. Common sense changes our way of viewing things and that's why it is important to pay attention to it because it is always changing. It is also important as it changes people's perceptions of others, knowledge, society and privilege, and why anti- education is difficult to practice. It is everywhere we are and makes an impact in lots of things whether we realize it or not. It is also important to think about when becoming a teacher because today’s classrooms have a wide range of diversity and their could be students from all over with different views.
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