“We never create anything fresh or valuable in utter isolation; we always create in relation to other people and other things”
Tag: Books
A book challenging the hegemony of the written representations of learning, engaged with through a written reflective post.
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The Art of Gathering: the how and why of it
Tracing the anatomy of gathering from conception, to invitation, to specifics of coming together, to ultimate conclusion.
“Cross-disciplinary project-oriented and theme-oriented creative work is no longer a niche for experimental or activist art; rather it has become a mainstream skill requirement for the commercial market.”
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John Dewey on Experience & Education
Dipping into pragmatist and educational theorist John Dewey’s ideas and their application to my project and the current educational environment. “The principle that development of experience comes about through interaction means that education is essentially a social process.”
Haraway, in her thinking, structure, and writing is advocating for messy entanglement, for multiple perspectives—not only human—and lessons from other-than-human ways of being.
“Tentacularity is about life lived along lines—and such a wealth of lines—not at points, not in spheres”
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Care: the politics of interdependence
Reflecting on a manifesto calling for care without boundaries, on the necessity of the notion of care to be structurally embedded across society.
“In order to really thrive we need caring communities. We need localised environments in which we can flourish: in which we can support each other and generate net works of belonging. We need conditions that enable us to act collaboratively to create communities that both support our abilities and nurture our interdependencies.”
A damning portrait of the state of higher education today: neoliberal market forces have corporatised and commercialised universities to death.
A reflection on cooperation: how it needs to be developed and deepened as a craft. Things like responsiveness to others, listening in conversation, mutual support, respect and pleasure mean that all participants benefit from the encounter
Reflecting on a form of cross-boundary leadership across landscapes of practice from social learning theorists Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner.
“Organizational structures focused on delivery are often maladapted for innovation, which requires new connections across silos. Innovation also requires enough freedom from institutional inertia to leverage these connections and think outside the box. Accustomed to taking risks and working across boundaries, systems conveners often find themselves in a position to straddle this tension between autonomy and organizational accountability.”