I asked my students today about the relationship(s) among appearance, identity, and authority – specifically mine. It’s part of the ongoing pedagogy project I’ve been working on with Leda about the visibility/invisibility of our actual bodies in the classroom. By the end of the discussion several students were telling me how I should have taught (!) the class all along: … Read more...
Tag: How far…?
more on facebook
Interesting blogpost by Danah Boyd about Facebook as a public sphere where young people can “negotiate their peers and learn about the social world.” The speeches in Public Speaking about Facebook emphasized its fun and useful qualities (although I have to seriously wonder if anyone really uses it to get notes from a missed class!) but also the risks of … Read more...
coming out: a problematic moment
I came out indirectly to my students in COM260, Public Speaking. I told them of the time I questioned Geraldine Ferraro, at the National Women’s Music Festival, about how she could address an audience of 3000 lesbians without using the word, “lesbian”. I don’t remember exactly what I said, I’m pretty sure it was implicit – I was … Read more...
presenting at NCA
It’s Leda’s panel, I’ll just present a part of The (In)visibility of Teachers: On Meaning, Body and Pedagogy… Read more...
gender experiment
“You’re dressed up! What’s the event?”
“You’re in a dress!”
“Do you have an interview with the Provost?”
“Who are you and what did you do with Steph?!”
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in a skirt before.”
“I like it.”… Read more...
day 2
This anxiety is wicked – in the not fun sense. 🙁 I am trying to piece together outfits from what I already own and inexpensively purchased skirts from the Salvation Army. I’m afraid I look downright silly. sigh. No doubt I’ll hear about it.… Read more...
all the way?
Well. For all the angst I went through the dress was a bit of a let down. My students just took it as a performance, as in not real, or otherwise downplayed it. Or so the discussion went. Several people admitted to a bit of a jolt when they first saw me, a couple of students blurted something out … Read more...
they’re stepping up!
Wow. 🙂
My students (gotta love the possessive) are doing it. A bunch of them seemed down on their energy today, but then I was kinda down with my own too.… Read more...
counterdependence
We are in full-fledged storming in COM352. The “trust” thread is amazing. And I’m jazzed about the co-researcher’s thread too. But it’s all good. 🙂
This is the crucial stage – storming – when the needs/desires for control drive the tussle. The tricky part is that it isn’t just their jockeying, but mine as well. For me, the challenge … Read more...
Participatory Research
Well, I’m jazzed. 🙂 Eight students from the small group communication class have decided to be co-researchers for a next stage of this project. They facilitated small group discussions of their own and peers’ reactions to the Teacher’s Body Presentation I gave at NCA last year.
The initial first impressions/first reactions to my appearance appear consonant with the data … Read more...