Re: phil's paper

From: Phil Graham (phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2001 - 17:49:16 PDT


At 12:22 PM 8/09/2001 -0700, Mike wrote:
>Phil-- Why not post your paper on xmca website? I am sure that a number of
>us would like to see it get wider ciculation and discussion and with all those
>little >>>>>> in front of every line, in text, it is hard to deal with.

Happy to, Mike. How do I do it?

>I find in my university that in order to create small pockets/niches of
>alternative practices/understandings/relations, I must either pay a hefty
>fee ahead of time in terms of over-large classes and clearly inferior
>education on the managerial model (to pay for my sins) or, link what I
>am doing to some other goal of the university which it does not usually
>deliver on (like, for example, being a land grant college with obligations
>to its community) and do it in a way that leaves everyone confused.... and
>in that confusion real education and community sometimes emerge.

Yeah -- confusion is a great help. We call it "make 'em an offer they can't
understand".

Best.
Phil

  



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