Well, seeing as this is my first blog attempt, I'm learning a few lessons.
First, a blog is a different type of endeavor than anything else I do, and it somehow bridges the personal and professional. Maybe that's just the way I've conceptualized this, and it's likely in large part due to the fact that I see my development as a human being--and the unlearning I hope to facilitate and experience as something that is all-encompassing. In any event, it means that I haven't properly created time and space in either my personal or professional life to post often enough. That might not be a problem if I was blogging about gardening, I've started blogging about race and racism, with other posts on issues related to gender, sexuality, globalism, learning/unlearning, sociology, and anthropology to come. You just can't throw out half-baked ideas on these issues, you either need to take the time to write a fully developed essay-style entry or post more consistently so people can follow the development of your ideas. My preference is somewhere in the middle, but I clearly need to do some more thinking and doing about this.
Second, as I want this to be a conversation of sorts I think I'm going to invite some guest bloggers to contribute other perspectives/counter-perspectives. Again, I'm not sure exactly how I want to do that, but I have a few basic ideas and need to make some decisions along those lines.
Third, I can see that I need to do a little more work explaining why I am doing this at all. My intent isn't to post from a position of "someone with the answers" as much as I mean to post as someone with questions, hunches and uncertainties. I mean to be vulnerable here, acknowledging that I don't have all the answers and sharing those lessons I do learn as I (hopefully) grow and develop in my understanding of the world around me and my ability to change that world.
More soon.
“Our schools are a vignette of how man, in the development of civilization and its core institutions, has managed to ignore or disregard some of the most compelling aspects of his own nature. But how long can we go on this way?” Edward T. Hall
Monday, May 9, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Hate Sells
Hi everyone,
Take a look at this link, which may interest many of you. You can help take students to see the play "White Noise" in Chicago. It's a timely theme, unfortunately, that shows how the music/entertainment industry packages hate as acceptable and consumable pop culture. If you click on the link above, you will also see that there are many teaching materials that go along with the play.
By the way, more Unlearning your Miseducation on the way. My brain has been simmering on a few issues but is nearing the boiling point.
Jeff
Take a look at this link, which may interest many of you. You can help take students to see the play "White Noise" in Chicago. It's a timely theme, unfortunately, that shows how the music/entertainment industry packages hate as acceptable and consumable pop culture. If you click on the link above, you will also see that there are many teaching materials that go along with the play.
By the way, more Unlearning your Miseducation on the way. My brain has been simmering on a few issues but is nearing the boiling point.
Jeff
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