I would like to applaud the last exchange between diane and Paul Dillon. I
thought it was a good example of respectful efforts to understand strongly
felt differences in perspective. I find myself "in between" -- I can't
imagine how anyone can say TODAY that different perspectives aren't
relevant to affecting social reality(ies), so it's hard for me to
understand Paul's difficulty with what I suspect is a majority consensus on
this list. On the other hand, I share Paul's orientation to practical
action, so I'm sympathetic to his protest against talk that does not serve
that project. The problem is that "that project" means differntly for
different ones of us, who all are concerned about a more equitable world.
I'm just as concerned about symbolic domination, which has material effects
& consequences, as I am about economic injustice, and I believe that
structural imbalances need to be addressed from multiple perspectives, in
various ways....
Judy
At 05:01 PM 3/30/01 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> And, as I understand you, this isn't a propadeutic, for on the
>>other side of this determination of how our reading is shaped, there is
>>still no possibility of a corrective lens that might bring history into
>>focus so we can see it for what it is . . .
>
>history for what it is...? isn't a dispersed set of perspectives? the idea
>here is to bring these perspectives into a conversation, not assert a
>particular History....
>>
>>i wonder if this is necessarily so and if this really constitutes a
>>productive way to orient the discussion here, since some of us pursue
>>practical activities among people who don't deal with texts in this sense
>>at
>>all and our engagement with texts is meant to inform that practice whose
>>outcome is not simply the production of further texts but practical
>>liberations of various degrees and kinds (eg., education)
>
>again, the idea is not to produce implications for each person's
>individual practice,
>but to draw more attention to ourselves, as participants in a list of
>diverse membership,
>one that rarely makes room for the kinds of diversities that might yet be
>revealed
>in a conversational atmosphere. if we can abandon ideas of what's the
>"true" perspective and seek more understandings about different
>perspectives, it seems to me, and others here, that we are closer to
>exploring what cultural-historical activity can be -
>that is, to situate here amongst ourselves.
>diane
>
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> :point where everything listens.
>and i slow down, learning how to
>enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
>
>(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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>
>diane celia hodges
>
> university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
>instruction
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> university of colorado, denver, school of education
>
>Diane_Hodges@ceo.cudenver.edu
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