i sometimes feel like a lurker, sometimes not.
i began to read xmca postings back in 1996 or 97 and was first drawn to
the ideas that were being discussed. i was just beginning to read and
think about socio-cultural frameworks for understanding human behavior in
schools (and, of course, elsewhere). i could engage with the concepts in
the safety of my own ignorance, no one could see my confusion.
i have been most active on this list when i felt a connection to
individual voices who seemed interesting, challenging even,
and also, interested in my attempts at understanding in non-threatening
ways.
this sense of
reciprocal receptivity
is tenuous at best and fluctuates with the actual postings of others and
my own experiences both in and out of email.
i have thought of this xmca space as a laboratory (in peter hoeg's sense
of the word) where important questions are engaged with,
and at it's best a place where
compassionate, curious, and intelligent people engaged with the questions
and each other.
so much for my romantic notions!
kathie
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.....We are our words, and black and bruised and blue.
Under our skins, we're laughing....................................
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Katherine_Goff@ceo.cudenver.edu
http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~katherine_goff/index.html
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