Re: [xmca] RE: The Social Creation of Inequality

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Check out Tim Ingold on "processionality", Ivan. And check out that James
quotation for a possible way to think about continuity/discontinuity.
mike

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Ivan Rosero <irosero@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> >From my own personal experience in a 5D-inspired, but wholly different
> kind
> of university-community partnership here in San Diego, the following strike
> me as all critically true all at the same time:
>
> 1) From Don:
>
> Finally, one of the things we've tried to do is build a strong team culture
> > for our undergrads, most of whom remain with the program for several
> years.
> >  As new undergrads join us, the more experienced undergrad team members
> > enculturate them in our collective values and practices, which has
> provided
> > quality and continuity in ways of working with kids and working with
> peers
> > on the team.  It is the team of students who have constructed most  of
> the
> > adaptations I mentioned earlier.  The team operates as a collective
> > leadership group, which seems to build their investment in and commitment
> to
> > the program and its underlying principles.
> >
>
> 2) From Andy:
>
> I have found in my own work that having a "keeper of the dream" is
> important
> > for any project. If any specific thing is to be achieved, there must be
> > exactly one person in the institution who "keeps the dream", whose life
> > depends on the project and who thinks of nothing else, who is able to
> revise
> > the aims and rules of the project, and modify the realisation of the
> dream
> > as required and *fight* for it.
>
>
> 3) community members, specially the community incarnation of the dream
> keeper.
>
> I have seen the dream in the partnership I speak of (
> http://tclearninglounge.org ) become more shared and more "real" over the
> last 4 1/2 years, but morphing at every single stage according to the
> unpredictable combination of at least the factors above (I would add, in a
> Latourian vein, a number 4) the actants that can't speak  in understandable
> English for themselves).
>
> Without 1 and 3, it seems to me the Dream Keeper risks keeping only just
> that.
>
> "Continuity" in these scenarios is an interesting question, for what
> exactly
> is the thing that continuous?  This seems to me quite analogous to (or a
> definition of) mind --pulled along through the interaction/intersection of
> various moving, and frequently disjoint, "dreams" that touch down here and
> there in activity, and hold somehow (yet ever changing) over time.
>
> ivan
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