> This enabled me to feel confident in her epistemological pluralism. Her
> open-mindedness. As a Muslim in Britain, living in the shadow of
> Huntington's crass thesis of the 'clash of civilisations', I have to admit
> feeling very insecure and jittery about how I am perceived. I become
> defensive quite easily these days. The angry Muslim, the neo-terrorist. I
> can easily become the hook for the projections of others because, like my
> doctoral colleague Alon Serper, though in different ways to Alon, I am
> prepared to enter into 'bold talk' and 'race talk', and to talk openly
> about my project as an
> educator in contributing to postcolonial social formations that will lead
> to the destruction of whiteness, i.e. the privileging dynamic of 'normal
> white.
This is the authentic epistemological, ethical, educational and aesthetic
beauty of the science/discipline of Ontology as I dedicate my being to
construct clarify it. I fight with the skin of my teeth for its autonomy,
being a distinct but not discrete inclusion in and with the disciplines of
human knowledge and progress.
"The Life I am trying to grasp is the me that is trying to grasp it". (R.
D. Laing (1967); The Bird of Paradise; p. 156).]
I systematically clarify my being-in-the-world, choosing a focal point -
usually the present now. I define it as epistemology, ethics, ethos and
education. Grasp, describe, account for, clarify and communicate. This is
my practice, vocation and privilege as Ontologist and constructing critical
psychologist of the human subject and human existence. The review is what I
make it to be.
My heuristics' educational recommendation (it is BERA after all) and advise
is to be less concerned about how one is being perceived by others and more
[focused] on how one is perceiving/conceiving and defining oneself for
himself/herself in and with the world. I think the ethics and ethos will be
best approached in this manner since I believe one gets more well-being,
gratification, dignity and Ontological security in having good
relationships, respect and dignity. Very few individuals want and enjoy
constant tension and hostility and are acting in-the-world accordingly.
In the words of a great educationalist and philosopher - Popye the sailor
man - I am what I am. This means the being I construct myself as in a
heuristics of human existence.
Alon
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