Hi...my Scottish friends are out in Africa instructing teachers and they need some help that I'm hoping you can supply. This is what my friend emailed to me:-
^'Now think broadly please:
Yesterday they added a bullet point to the start of the syllabus content that they would incorporate scientific explanantions into their cultural practices and beliefs. Discussion of examples: when starting with lightning one begins with their beliefs of it and one is the commonly-held thought that a person can will to harness the lightning bolt and kill another. Do we have a similar story? They say it is done by witches/powerful men.
Also in a lightning storm one should cover all the mirrors in the room, so lightning was not reflected round room, adding to fear and potential hazard. We also cover mirrors but why do we do so, lightning or another folk-idea.'^
Over to you.....and thank you .....
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