I'm just getting ready to share some ideas on living educational
theories and educational action research with the participants at a
Language Conference at Beijing Normal University. Professor Wu,
Zongjie of the School of International Studies in Zhejiang makes the
point in his address to the conference that:
"My point of interest is to recover the Chinese identity of pedagogic
discourse where language merely serves to name the unspeakable, but
strives to withdraw itself into complete forgottenness. What remains
in terms of emptiness of symbolic meaning is the essence of pedagogic
intelligibility."
I'm going to show this clip of Moira Laidlaw from the ending of one
of her lessons at Ningxia Teachers University to stress the
importance of expressing the living meanings of a receptively
responsive relationship. I think the visual images communicate the
essence of pedagogic intelligibility, non-verbally, in a way that
highlights the importance of community engagement and the
desirability of enhancing the influence of educational relationships.
You can access the clip from YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1jEOhxDGno
Love Jack.
On 23 Sep 2007, at 01:48, Susan Goff wrote:
> In Australia at long last we seem to be experiencing a huge
> development in
> the area we are calling "community engagement" - which has the
> potential to
> nut through the transformations from competition to co-operation
> rapidly and
> for/within practical contexts. I am excited that this new quality
> and form
> of relationship will let "flow" (back) into our everyday as a
> matter of
> course (ing!)......
> Susan
>
> On 21/9/07 11:28 PM, "Alan Rayner" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps we shouldn't pay too much attention to
>> Leahy and his like, by recognising that there is far, far more to
>> education
>> than superficial appearances.
>>
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