Orality and Worldview Orality goes hand in hand with worldview investigation and indigenized communication approaches. We cannot afford to ignore these if the good news is to truly become an insider perspective, incarnated and inculturated. A critical area is the sense of reality. The western, linear thinker has a high cultural value on factual knowledge . This affects the priority in learning, planning and the underlying sense of truth.
Truth is seen as consisting in facts, and knowledge is the accumulation of facts.
The oral culture, on the other hand, places priority on relationships which produces a concept of dynamic truth, not a focus on facts. The dynamic relational concept of truth involves what we might call functional knowledge . This focuses on relational skills, and truth is seen in terms of personal integrity and fulfillment of relational and family obligations. The pre-literate, relational thinker, with a focus on dynamic truth and functional knowledge, has a high facility of memory and an active skill of visual association, which we might call oral literacy . The post-literate uses visual skills to process images and activities more than writing.