RE: [xmca] Summer reading

Martin, I would love to collaborate. Freire's problem posing methodology comes to my mind immediately but I am sure there are many other possibilities such as those Emily mentions. Story telling is a big part of Beah's rescue. Indeed the book closes with a POWERFUL story. A wonderful example of double bind!

What might be a next step? I believe Fulbright has funds for groups to come together for worthy projects. Unfortunately I will be away much of the rest of the summer and then out of the country teaching (for Duquesne U, interestingly enough) in the fall.

Don Cunningham
Indiana University

Ancora Imparo!

-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Packer
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 10:23 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Summer reading

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
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> University Park , PA 16802
> 814-861-3315 (home)
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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!
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> On Behalf Of Tony Whitson
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