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Hi Nathalis You responded to Joan's comment that is why it is not there, you need to have accessed the original communication I sent, to see and open the attachment. Nevertheless I have attached the essay in this communication as an attachment. Let me know you received it ok. Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: Practitioner-Researcher [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nathalis Wamba Sent: 15 November 2010 03:42 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Intangible Presence Hi Lawrence, Can't find the attachment! Nathalis ----- Original Message ----- From: Joan Lucy Conolly <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:13 am Subject: Re: Intangible Presence To: [log in to unmask] > Thank you, Lawrence ... > > From: Practitioner-Researcher [mailto:PRACTITIONER- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Martin Olivier > Sent: 15 November 2010 08:38 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Intangible Presence > > Hi all > > Found this 2009 article by Fischer & Mandell about Michael Polanyi > an interesting read. Please see attachment. > > Lawrence > > From: Practitioner-Researcher [mailto:PRACTITIONER- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Whitehead > Sent: 28 October 2010 07:50 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Intangible Presence > > > On 28 Oct 2010, at 00:43, Ernie Stringer wrote: > > Jack, > > Loved the Polanyi quote. Particularly the part where he says, > "Having decided that I must understand the world from my point of > view, as a person claiming originality and exercising his personal > judgement responsibly with universal intent, I must now develop a > conceptual framework which both recognises the existence of the > other such persons .....". For me this alludes to Buber's notion of > an I-Thou dialectic that provides the mirror into our soul/self > (through the Looking Glass Self), and the imperative to make these > new ( or newly realized) meanings through dialogue. A process, I > might add that is sadly missing in bureaucracies generally, and in > our educational life. > > Cheers, > > Ernie > > Dear Ernie, Geisha, Sara and all... Just off for the first day of > the workshop at Durban University of Technology and I couldn't > resist sending the quotes below from Martin Buber which have > influenced my research. > > Ernie - the sentence you have picked out above from Michael > Polanyi's works is that one that helped me to move on from my > positivist science background into dialectics and then into > inclusionality. > Geisha - the quotes I posted yesterday, from Michael Polanyi, were > all from his book Personal Knowledge, in the reference I gave with > the page numbers. > > The quotes from Martin Buber below are all from 'Between Man and > Man'. Martin Buber's I and Thou was one of the most influential > texts in my life and continues to inform my understandings of I-You > relationships. > Sara - looking forward to seeing some of your videos.... > > Love Jack. > > Here are the Buber quotes: > > Buber, M. (1961) Between Man and Man, London & Glasgow; Fontana. > "If this educator should ever believe that for the sake of > education he has to practise election and arrangement, then he will > be guided by another criterion than that of inclination, however > legitimate this may be in its own sphere; he will be guided by the > recognition of values which is in his glance as an educator. But > even then his selection remains suspended, under constant > correction by the special humility of the educator for whom the > life and particular being of all his pupils is the decisive factor > to which his 'heirarchic' recognition is subordinated. For in the > manifold variety of the children the variety of creation is placed > before him." (p. 122) > "The relation in education is one of pure dialogue..... > Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that > is the most inward achievement of the relation in education. > Because this human being exists, meaninglessness, however hard > pressed you are by it, cannot be the real truth. Because this human > being exists, in the darkness the light lies hidden, in fear > salvation, and in the callousness of one's fellow-men the great Love. > Because this human being exists; therefore he must be really > there, really facing the child, not merely there in spirit. He may > not let himself be represented by a phantom: the death of the > phantom would be a catastrophe for the child's pristine soul. He > need possess none of the perfections which the child may dream he > possesses; but he must be really there. In order to be and to > remain truly present to the child he must have gathered the child's > presence into his own store as one of the bearers of his communion > with the world, one of the focuses of his responsibilities for the > world. Of course he cannot be continually concerned with the child, > either in thought or in deed, not ought he to be. But if he has > really gathered the child into his life then that subterranean > dialogic, that steady potential presence of the one to the other is > established and endures. Then there is really between them, there > is mutuality." (125-126) > "But however intense the mutuality of giving and taking with which > he is bound to his pupil, inclusion cannot be mutual in this case. > He experiences the pupil's being educated, but he pupils cannot > experience the educating of the educator. The educator stands at > both ends of the common situation, the pupil only at one end. In > the moment when the pupil is able to throw himself across and > experience from over there, the educative relation would be bust > asunder, or change into friendship. > We call friendship the third form of the dialogical relation, > which is based on a concrete and mutual experience of inclusion. It > is the true inclusion of one another by human souls." (128) > > ________________________________ > "This e-mail is subject to our Disclaimer, to view click > http://www.dut.ac.za" > ________________________________ > "This e-mail is subject to our Disclaimer, to view click > http://www.dut.ac.za" "This e-mail is subject to our Disclaimer, to view click http://www.dut.ac.za"