Category: Mentoring Project
Mentoring, redux
Li interviewd me on Friday for the department “oral history project” that Leda is spearheading this semester (mentioned in the comments to “Ghetto Talk”). I’m not sure where it’s going, what the plans for it are, but it was an opportunity for me to reflect on what I perceive in terms of present department dynamics and speculate with Li … Read more...
Rosie gets published!
An ol’ compatriot from the social justice program has gotten her dissertation published:
Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms: Faculty reflections on Their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations.
By… Read more...
online mentoring?
postmodern thinking
My paper on mentoring for Marta’s class is pushing me to apply the kind of thinking Chia discussed and I quoted at length at the end of this post last fall.… Read more...
clarification (if needed?)
It occurred to me that people may think the final video will “document” the group process we went through this past Fall. Nothing is further from the truth! Li and I agreed before we ever even started that the group process was the mechanism to generate “data” or “footage”, but that it would probably be invisible in the final video.… Read more...
Genealogy of Mentoring
I think (now, in retrospect, as I keep learning, smile) that Li and I presented a more-or-less Foucauldian genealogical analysis of the mentoring project (on Nov 2). For instance, Foucault’s project was to question positivist science that focused on linear, causal events … Read more...
closure?
Someone told me yesterday that they were somewhat surprised by the open-ended presentation and discussion at the session we did on Nov 2 because they were expecting some kind of conclusion or answer…really, there is no “answer” per se, but still (hopefully) a new thread of consciousness or awareness that the usual way of doing things can (has, and often … Read more...
A postmodern project?
I received a request for “any initial “findings” or generalizable beliefs or
feelings that could be briefly summarized to those of us who have not been
involved?” Yes – we did have a handout at the Nov 2 “culminatory” event. I will leave a stack in the mailroom on Monday for anyone to pick up. It’s not the complete presentation, … Read more...
Reflection & Action
Yesterday, David and I were debriefing about the mentoring event on Sunday. Long and short of it, he felt that the show and presentation invited action, not reflection. Very interesting! I think he’s right – and I’m not sure that’s what Li and I intended. Let me qualify, from my point-of-view: I do want and hope that folks … Read more...