ABSTRACT
This theme will explore a major inhibition to communication by looking at how, so easily, we can construct and reduce people to be less than what they are. Continuing from the first three units within the Identity theme, the angle on communication will be how we must discipline our own perceptions if we are to communicate successfully; but these three units (A2.1-3) will look more deeply at the forces which prevent us all from seeing people as they really are. The weight of responsibility is on ‘us’ to understand ourselves, rather than on essentialist categories of ‘them’.
