so for now the thoughts flip between "change/ transformation /learning"
more meta-morphic than morphogenic
I think I want to respond to Bruce's message, and to your one that
follows, where you write of your concerns about defeating death via worms,
and spectres of eugenics. I think I can nod to your fears, we think that
certain kinds of knowledge can deliver us mastery over life and death, but
we do not ( or rarely consider how this knowledge changes us - wht are
then the consequences of possessing that knowledge - what kind of
ethics, poetry or social justice models might need to be in place as
well, to balance/ antidote respond to such knowledges. could be we
just have begun to fathom the printing press, bullets, fertilizer, let
alone new technologies......
I have little background in ed. of psych. (prior a literature and poetry
student) before I waded my way into education. Now I mainly grapple with
the constitutative capacities of texts, to mediate social scripts and
identities
tadpoles return me to a a place where I have little discourse - and there
I can watch - perhaps see something profound, for which language has not
prepared me. I think perhaps we don't really know much about the simple
events of our own development, as persons as or human beings.
( mainly the squiggley beings are charming - I wonder do tadpoles "know"
they are going to become frogs) when I sprinkle the food flakes into the
basin, the bigger ones flip on their backs to skim algae and food from the
surface of the water, as they show their bellies, I can see the curl of
their gut, and lately frog-like appendanges bulging under the clear dome
of their bellies.
A scrap of poetry from one of my earlier days -
I am disturbed that the impossible dream talks baby0
talk, the first language convolutes bone strucutre, coiled
presumably molusk-like on the inner casement, to get
the true story read the pearly vowel rings.
Inside her cheedk a tree frog basoons, and all along we
had suspected freckles.
>A little comparative psychology is called for...I love the fact that you
>are interested in watching these changes, and I do not mean to interfere
>with the poetry. Look at Maier & Schneirla, a book written in l935 which
>is still the best exposition of concepts of integration in developmental
>change and phyletic differences among species...and some clues to zpd
>although it was not called that then. Ethel
>
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"science does not vanquish mystery" Annie Dillard "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
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