Re: [xmca] Summer reading

Wow - that sounds amazing.
I would begin investigating what UNICEF has done with children such as
Bael, particularly their use of storytellers to facilitate.
Actually I'm quite intrigued by personal narratives, why we write them
/and /read them. My husband is a Viet Nam vet - he was attached to the
Marine Corp and did recon, basically hired kills in his case - and he
has slowly been emerging from the horrors not only through
psychotherapy, behavior management, and medication, but also through
storytelling opportunities. Last year some students interviewed him for
an undergrad film-making project (they were interviewing vets) and the
video recordings were ultimately placed not only in the Penn State
archives, but in a local war museum and has been placed in the federal
archives for future researchers and interested members of the public. He
was given a copy and it's fascinating to see him tell his stories, but
also to listen to him reflect on the process of telling his story to
these two young people.
I guess it sounds a little too "oh the healing power of story", but I
think there is something to the externalization end of the process, said
the non-psychologist.
Nonetheless, it would be interesting and potentially useful to consider
guerrilla and paramilitary methods, not to mention reintegration of the
children, in terms of the internalization process that might be going on
within these 'cultural' activities.
I hope you'll keep us posted. I think this could be valuable work in
terms of the gang cultures as well.
~ Em
P.S. Has there been any investigations of the Hitler youth or the
children involved in the cultural revolution in China?

Martin Packer wrote:
> Last year I had the opportunity to talk with staff at the Colombian Ministry
> of Education in Bogotá, and learned from them about the problems of the
> Œreinserted¹ children - former child soldiers who were recruited or simply
> kidnapped by guerilla or paramilitary groups there. As these children are
> escaping, or as the groups are disbanding, they are becoming the
> responsibility of the Ministry. We started to think about a possible
> research project that might benefit all concerned. One possibility we
> discussed was that we might learn a great deal from these children about the
> rationality and motivation of the guerilla and paramilitary groups ­ that
> interviews with them could throw light on the sources of conflict and
> possible pathways to peace for these groups, and also on the best way to
> facilitate the reintegration of the children into mainstream society.
>
> If anyone would be interested in collaborating on such a project, or has
> suggestions on how best to carry it out, or improve it, please let me know.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> On 7/13/07 8:09 PM, "Cunningham, Donald James" <cunningh@indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> Em, I first heard of the book here:
>>
>> http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/celebrity_inter
>> views/index.jhtml?playVideo=82274
>>
>> An odd source, I know, but Jon Stewart may be our most astute journalist
>> today.
>>
>> Persevere!
>>
>> Don Cunningham
>> Indiana University
>>
>> Ancora Imparo!
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>> On Behalf Of E Duvall
>> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 4:58 PM
>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> Subject: Re: [xmca] Summer reading
>>
>> Thank you for the recommendation Donald... I went up on line to
>> http://www.alongwaygone.com/index.html
>> and read about the book, read an excerpt and watched a video recording.
>> This short visit was... that feeling you get when you don't know what's
>> around the corner, but you need to look some truth in the eye but you're
>> scared to look because you don't know what the looking will do to you.
>> I'm a little scared to read the book; I hope to persevere.
>> ~ Em
>>
>> --
>> He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by
>> storm.
>> -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
>>
>> Emily Duvall
>> Doctoral Candidate (ABD) / Graduate Assistant-Instructor
>> Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
>> Department of Curriculum and Instruction
>> College of Education
>> Penn State University
>> 256 Chambers Bldg.
>> University Park , PA 16802
>> 814-861-3315 (home)
>> 814-404-6175 (cell)
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>>
>>
>>
>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: "Cunningham, Donald James" <cunningh@indiana.edu>
>>
>>> Tony,
>>>
>>> Instead of the Garfinkle book you might read "A Long Way Gone" by
>>> Ishmael Beah. It has nothing and everything to do with the issues we
>>> have been discussing...........djc
>>>
>>> Don Cunningham
>>> Indiana University
>>>
>>> Ancora Imparo!
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Behalf Of Tony Whitson
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>>> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>>> Subject: [xmca] no Garfinkel book, after all
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-- 
He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by storm.
-- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Emily Duvall
Doctoral Candidate (ABD) / Graduate Assistant-Instructor
Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education
Penn State University
256 Chambers Bldg.
University Park , PA  16802
814-861-3315 (home)
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