>Diane:
>Eric Burdon (sp?) and the Animals was the group, right? I can't remember
>the name of the tune.
Ya, I was pretty sure it was Eric Burdon, but the name of the sone eludes me.
>
>I think I understand and appreciate the jist of your note. I'd like to
>clarify the portion that is reproduced above. You refer to an attempt to
>silence the academic voice..., but you didn't seem to mention who is making
>this attempt. I can imagine three possibilities: 1) the professor-types
>are attempting to silence the academic voice of the students, 2) the
>students are attempting to silence themselves maybe by a kind of
>avoidance(?), 3) there is not an identifiable person or group of people
>trying to silence this voice but the 'culture' of academia does this.
>
>Are you thinking one of these or something else?
>
>Dewey
What I was thinking of, actually is the ventriloquating grad students go through
when first encountering theory; the "parrot-speak", as Mary Bryson & Suzanne
deCastel talk about...
while the students will go through those speaking practices in class-based
communications,
and in email discussion lsits which are part of course content (usually
framed with
the expectation that students make reference to the weekly readings in
their communications);
...outside of these contexts, in my experience, students want to silence
the academic voice in their head, the academic voice that they are
expected to speak, and yet which is still alien to them.
It's a self-generated silencing, like learning a foreign language, and
wishing to return to one's "native" tongue...
diane
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