tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post1183046624956808609..comments2024-01-24T20:19:07.001-08:00Comments on touches of sense...: Enabling the future?sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-63072876854586333052014-02-10T00:48:41.084-08:002014-02-10T00:48:41.084-08:00Hi Terry
Even when I get fed up of myself, I iron ...Hi Terry<br />Even when I get fed up of myself, I iron a few shirts, fill in a few forms and let renewed enthusiasm take me wherever. <br /><br />I have been taking a holiday from construction but I feel that I will be getting down to 'real work' for a moment (he says in rather unconvincing direct speech).<br /><br />I can feel the urge to run, to climb, coming back, that is reassuring, I had lost that part for too long. It swings back unexpectantly.<br /><br />No idea how the wind will blow but I much appreciate your comments which bring comfort. Being out on a rung get tiresome. I love company.sensor63https://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-44259077593451778762014-02-10T00:40:41.299-08:002014-02-10T00:40:41.299-08:00Hi Jenny!
I feel that the challenge is to be in t...Hi Jenny! <br />I feel that the challenge is to be in the moment and to reassure learners of their abilities to make meaning their way. The means of expression with which we feel most comfortable may be a means of joy but also a lure, our role, I feel is to prompt and to nurture experiment.<br /><br />Many of us have a tendency to fill the void our way in little boxes which may be detrimental to more fragile flowers, particularly if a particular way of functionning is sanctionned by the power-structure in place. <br /><br />Much of the more spectacular learning I have witnessed over the years has appeared underground and appears un-capturable in artificial conditions. Alchemists overstretch themselves. Gardeners risk trampling nature.<br /><br />I would say that we are all music-borne rather than bound. This brings me to a breath of Coetzee:<br />“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”<br />― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace sensor63https://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-21978636910912536902014-02-09T09:49:40.364-08:002014-02-09T09:49:40.364-08:00Hi Simon and Terry
Terry I like the snake charmer...Hi Simon and Terry<br /><br />Terry I like the snake charmer and mongoose image. It would be beyond me to even dream up a thought like that.<br /><br />Which brings me to Simon's comment that we give less importance to dance/rap/slam/music/pottery/brick-laying/graffiti/videos <br /><br />Which brings me to a thought that has just popped into my head and almost fear to raise - the question of learning styles. Of course I know the research that has thrown this out of the window, but equally I have had plenty of experience of learners who have 'flowered' in different modes of learning. For some books are the way - I won't say book-bound because that is not necessarily the case - for others its music, dance or whatever.<br /><br />Could we also say that a learner is music bound?<br /><br />Despite this question, I do know what you are talking about Simon when you talk about being book bound.Jenny Macknesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245588576461411688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-51348472252695125132014-02-09T06:06:05.340-08:002014-02-09T06:06:05.340-08:00This is a grand narrative. It is text-bound and I...This is a grand narrative. It is text-bound and Internet context bound, but...is is only part of the rhizomatic complex that is your story. Words are not the issue. It is the valorizing of them that is. There is nothing inherently wrong with words except perhaps that they are reified lies that we do our best to use. I see in your story that words are just part of the mix. And I appreciate your struggle to not simplify that story too much with words. What a tragically difficult task to be prosaic about a rhizome. It demands poets and crazy prophets like Blake and musicians singing the body electric and scuptors who aren't afraid of molten bronze as a medium. Keep on. "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they." so sayeth Rousseau. I say even throw off what he says if it runs counter to your story. You are an inspiration. Keep on! telliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-16261539872385323572014-02-09T05:57:09.508-08:002014-02-09T05:57:09.508-08:00I am surrounded by book-bound adults and text-boun...I am surrounded by book-bound adults and text-bound, too. Tangled up in the preordained magical thinking that books represent the real power of life. If you want a nice image, Jenny, howsabout this one? I want to be a snake charmer, to draw out the powerful creature that truly is my non book bound learner. Yet I am surrounded by mongooses. <br /><br /><br />telliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08205908556621412864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-37023220504564487722014-02-08T12:32:17.207-08:002014-02-08T12:32:17.207-08:00Hi Jenny! Thanks for your action expressed by this...Hi Jenny! Thanks for your action expressed by this comment and your questions - and for your work.<br /><br />Book-bound as I see it in this post may have the following meanings (not exhaustive)<br /><br />Tied: <br />Mastery tied to books - Other forms of expression given less importance (dance/rap/slam/music/pottery/brick-laying/graffiti/videos etc)<br />Tied to course books<br />Tied to Publishers - as teachers or academics for status/power.<br />Tied to Place of Book/Program - official Curriculum in a particular country/culture.<br /><br />Bound - to a family/band<br />Bound in allegiance to a guild which celebrates book wielding<br /><br />I do not consider myself book-bound.<br /><br />In relation to this course, I have learnt that giving up status which is tied to books results in defensive/aggressive reactions.<br /><br />I will be working more widely with other people/communities/networks of learners/teachers/researchers/others around the world who share my concern that we need to develop new forms of education in the light of a revolution the like of which we have never seen.<br /><br />I shall be reading your articles, your blog posts, to glean as much as I can. I hope that through this course I will be able to learn more from/with people like yourself with the aim of guiding our future actions.<br /><br />I shall remember again these lines which travel with me:<br /><br />"Remember<br />First to possess his books; for without them<br />He's but a sot, as I am.."<br /><br />I look forward to more of your comments and questions.sensor63https://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-70469595473846389482014-02-08T06:47:07.379-08:002014-02-08T06:47:07.379-08:00I can't quite get my head round what a book bo...I can't quite get my head round what a book bound adult is. Do you consider yourself a book-bound adult? In relation to books and what you have learned on this course - what will you do differently in the future? Hope you don't mind these questions. JennyJenny Macknesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245588576461411688noreply@blogger.com