.....but just see what damage flood water can do!

Regards

Brian
--- "A.D.M.Rayner" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Brian,
> 
> Just let the water melt the ice.
> 
> Warmest
> 
> Alan
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Brian wakeman <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 28 June 2007 10:31
> Subject: Re: Beyond Oppression
> 
> 
> > Dear Alan,and all,
> > 
> > Some while ago I sat in a village bar high in the
> > mountains near Avila in Spain, where a group of
> > action-researchers had been sharing how to go
> about
> > action research with groups of teachers, and
> studying
> > the "Rennovacion"(spelling?) in primary education.
> > 
> > Even though I had only read "Get by in Spanish'  I
> was
> > surprised how much I understood of what was going
> on
> > in the classrooms I visited and photographed for 
> the
> > British Council sponsored  project.
> > 
> > The village was something like a set out of a John
> > Wayne film.....tumbled down buildings, black
> cloaked
> > figures, elderly gents sitting observing the scene
> > under big hats. 
> > 
> > I screwed up my courage and entered to the stares
> of
> > locals, walked up to the bar and ordered a drink
> in my
> > praticed phrase book words.
> > Then I sat down looked around, smiled and nodded
> to
> > the locals. They quickly lost interest in me, and
> > returned to their machine-gun-like Spanish
> > conversation. I tried to listen-in, picking out
> > words.........but it was all too difficult...... 
> > 
> > I looked out of the glass-less window in the
> > white-washed wall across the village tumbling 
> down
> > the hill side to the vista of the snow-capped
> > mountains......
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Alan.....this is a picture of how I feel
> reading
> > some postings.......
> > 
> > I've been part of the practitioner research world
> for
> > thirty years. I am a practitioner.....have been a
> > teacher, leader, writer, briefly a research
> > associate...now a teacher trainer and artist in
> > retirement... and I thought I understood enough to
> > research practice, even dipping-in to the
> philosophy
> > phrase book with an M.Phil,........,but having
> ordered
> > my refreshment from LET's bar,nodded and smiled to
> > 'inclusionality', I can no longer follow the
> foreign
> > language of the extract you kindly sent
> > recently.....and so look out of the window away
> from
> > the esoteric to the action research world, the
> > vernacular, the more exoteric discourse of what I
> can
> > understand.
> > 
> > With apologies for my slow learning,
> > and kind regards,
> > 
> > 
> > Brian
> > --- "A.D.M.Rayner" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear All,
> > > 
> > > FYPI, I have just sent the message below to
> another
> > > list, but I feel it also relates to some recent
> BERA
> > > threads.
> > > 
> > > Warmest
> > > 
> > > Alan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: A.D.M.Rayner 
> > > To: [log in to unmask] 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Dear FOW,
> > > 
> > > I guess I might add that my 'purpose' in trying
> to
> > > bring inclusional awareness to wider notice is
> to
> > > participate in the release of a deeper spirit of
> > > natural communion and creativity, which
> liberates us
> > > from oppressive modes of thought and governance.
> I
> > > am seeking to help us to understand how defining
> > > things as objects gets in the way of
> understanding,
> > > and to show a 'common sense' (sense of being 'in
> > > common') way beyond this blockage. Remaining
> silent
> > > about that which cannot be defined literally
> (but
> > > can be understood experientially and alluded to
> by
> > > language, especially emotionally expressive
> English
> > > language) only serves to sustain oppressive
> theory
> > > and practice. Difficult as it is, I find myself
> > > trying to use language expressively to show up
> what
> > > language cannot define but can (notwithstanding
> > > 'Witty' and 'Zen') 'speak around'. 
> > > 
> > > On these lines, here is the last part of a
> prelude
> > > to a new book I am preparing with Ted Lumley,
> Jack
> > > Whitehead and Lere Shakunle: 
> > > 
> > > "Hence natural flow forms are inclusionally
> > > distinguishable but not discontinuous -
> 'distinct
> > > but not discrete'. They can be non-contiguous,
> but
> > > inescapably both include and are pooled together
> in
> > > space. Non-contiguity is natural; discontinuity
> is
> > > unnatural. Correspondingly, we cannot restore
> > > natural spatial continuity to what we have
> mentally
> > > abstracted as informational 'bits', simply by
> making
> > > these bits contiguous (placing them in
> alignment) as
> > > in Newton and Liebniz's 'calculus'. We cannot,
> > > without including receptive space, restore
> > > inclusionality from objective rationality, but
> can
> > > always derive the latter from the former by
> > > excluding space. 
> > > 
> > > With this inclusional resolution, our
> scientific,
> > > mathematical and theological explanations and
> > > representations of Nature and human nature
> transform
> > > fundamentally and in complementary ways that
> don't
> > > contradict one another. Through this resolution
> it
> > > is possible to transform oppressive managerial,
> > > educational and militaristic practices that have
> > > been predicated on belief in 'It'[dualistic
> > > sovereign object]. We can liberate our complex,
> > > creative, lovingly receptive-responsive human
> > > identities from the Ghost in Concrete Block Age,
> > > where they've been trapped in the suspended
> > > animation of unnatural discontinuous
> neighbourhood
> > > for millennia. 
> > > 
> > > So that is our quest in preparing these stories.
> We
> > > want to bring this resolution of the deep human
> > > conflict that arises from the divorce and
> contiguous
> > > recombination in an odd marriage of 'It' and
> 'Not
> > > It', to wider awareness. We offer what we view
> as
> > > the prospect of restoring our alienated selves
> where
> > > we never really could or should have tried to
> depart
> 
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Brian E. Wakeman
Education adviser
Dunstable
Beds