Class+Notes


 * Notes from class 9-9 **

**Note-taker for September 16 will be Deb.** Please let her know if you will not be coming to a class meeting.

**Kim will be out September 23, September 30** **Eleonor may be out October 7** **Deb may be late November 4** **Steve may be missing part of the last 6 meetings**

**Conversations about structure:** **First half of class focus on course readings...**

Jigsaw readings: Team analysis of readings: each week divided into small groups and closely read. We will divide up the readings for each week for the next week.

For next week: Moran: All of us will read/review this. Safranski: Eleonor, Deb Krell: Kim, Kanoe Levin: Sarah, Steve

Anika, Kadish, and Maggie: join in somewhere...

Provide for the class:  · a bulleted list of important points (try to Hultgrenize the essence of the readings—What //does// she want us to get out of this?)... It may help to focus on the weekly 'prelude' in the syllabus  · significant images (What sticks/resonates with you?)  · recommendations for others' writing (pertinent paragraphs or topics) if you see anything  · questions or pressing concerns (eg. What the heck did Levin mean by the word 'body'?)

Please keep in mind as you read that our topics are:

Deb: The lived experience of starting a school Kim: The lived experience of personal and professional relationships formed at a distance. What is the nature of those relationships. Kanoe: The lived experience of multi-racial teachers. Also interested in the need to belong (and the experience of the in-between space in the search for belonging). Sarah: The lived experience of writing from and with the body. Steve: The lived experience of high-school band students as they prepare music for adjudicated perforamce. Eleonor: The lived experience of teachers recriuted from the Phillipines teaching in American schools.

Khadish Anika Maggie Please fill us in, y'all (we want this in your words)!

**Second half of each class:** Dissertation study (maybe focus on a chapter each session). Next week: Chapter 1 (each of us should read and be prepared to discuss a chapter 1 with the group). Include general elements, initial impressions (not anything strenuous, here). Workshopping of writing (sharing)

**Notes/reflections on the readings for readings for this week:** **//Anam Cara//--**  · Image: the embryo in the womb—birth would feel like death to a fetus.  · The Bhuddist “noble friend”--someone who can see us fully, can confront us gently with our own blindness, helping us become more self aware.  · Time is a circle—the year, a day, a rehearsal, a class, a concert, the warm-up in a class (should refer to prior knowledge), the division of cells, etc. Breath—in yoga the breath is 'circular'.  · Humor in the book: the Marquez quote about knowing his wife so well that he doesn't know her at all.  · Love as a third force between two people. When two people part, that element--“like a ghost,” says Deb—remains. Synergy: 1+1=3.  · The face as a meeting place of the inner world and the outer world. How do we as teachers communicate our inner selves to our students? (42).  · Holes in the lace are what makes it beautiful.  · Otherness: The longing to be seen (25).  · True listening is worship (70). Silence, inner voice, deeper understanding. Music “constellates.” \  · I “want to be” will (as a hammer) versus attending to what we already are.  · Unprecedented spiritual hunger (80). Is this because we aren't offering children the //right// education? Do we fill the void with technology, with possessions...  · Dualism: subject/object, mind/body, birth/death... <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Estrangement from the earth. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Gadamer and the horizon—moving through processes and how the horizon joins and moves with us (215) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · “Jamesian” hahaha! Like the EDCI merger. (34). <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · ...Died a grocer... (149). How is this different when your occupation is your “calling.” Is this the same for teachers? What is the difference—following a star—becoming more yourself through your heart's work, rather than compartmentalizing into a “job.” <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · The body in the soul (98). What does it mean when we reverse our concept of container and contents? <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Aside: reading only the first line of each paragraph does not work when the first line is “This reminds me of a story about a dog...” <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · The violin metaphor: tuned too tightly, strings snap. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Is the author too vigorously embracing death? <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Waiting for Godot description (from the man forced to see it because he had no money) (221)

Kim was reviewing Moran: Heidegger appealed to those who also saw “dark days ahead.” Arendt and “estrangement from the earth.” //We are all finding different things in here...//

**Levin:** <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Nihilism: the belief that existence is useless, that there is no truth, that destruction is desireable. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Ontology: pre-conceptual, pre-reflective understanding of “being. Heideger's clearly articulated definition (ha ha): the study of being (22). <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Phenomenology is defined on page 13. A process of articulation... <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · //Dasein// is “openness to being” (23). <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Levin seems to think that Heidegger gets “stuck” because he's thinking thinking thinking, not experiencing. Experiencing from the self provides a clearer notion of being in general. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Heidegger avoids the body, according to Levin, because the essence of being is not the same as the capacity for being or the nature of being—movement, motion, seeing. Thinking is limited, but experiencing gets us somewhere. (40) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · The body metaphors for thinking (43): for more of this, see Lakoff and Johnson. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Recollection as projecting both past and future. May be helpful in dissertation defense... Recollection is both discovering and inventing (72-73). This seems important to our research and in perceiving our participants' perspectives. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · The turning (54): we can turn to being only in the midst of our life world. We must face ourselves by facing our capacity to understand being (our own, as individuals). The real thing—primordial body of feeling. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Listening and feeling have been historically construed as points of validity, but Levin seems to take issue with this... <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Thinking takes place not just in the brain: it is a bodily activity (45). <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Merleau-Ponty solved the whole problem through his concept of “the flesh” (65). It demolishes the dualism. Flesh refers to tactility and field of being (not meat). Is this more accessible in Abram? <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · //The Fifth Element// (not boron, Bruce Willis)... <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · What's with the “ek” spellings: “ek-stacy, ek-sistence”?

Steve recommends Levin's //The Listening Self//

**We need to know what the chapters of phenomenological dissertation are—we may want to read more examples (especially of chapter 3).** Turning (Why look at it?) Unpacking/exploring the phenomenon: personal and etymological tracings, other research, literature, poetry, metaphorical representations, etc... (What is it?) Philosophical foundations Thematizing (the unpacking of the conversations with participants) Pedagogical insights

**Updated course list: Please check your information to be sure I've typed correctly.** Kanoe Bunney 3702 Bonnybridge Pl. Ellicott City, MD 21043 (614) 425-3778 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">kaynoh@yahoo.com

Eleonor Castillo 9216 Dewberry Lane College Park, MD 20740 (619) 417-2892 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">eleonor.castillo@gmail.com

Deb Felix 10224 Parkwood Drive Kensington, MD 20895 (301) 530-1246 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">dfelix@verizon.net

Khadish O. Franklin 2807 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20008 (850) 284-4593 cell (301) 314-4723 work <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">khadish@umd.edu

Stephen Miles 213 Golden Eagle Way Belcamp, MD 21017 (410) 812-7284 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">smiles@bcps.org

Sarah Morris PO Box 522 Berkeley Springs, WV 25411 (304) 270-7406 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">slmorris@umd.edu

Kim Nakashima 444 Ridge Rd. #8 Greenbelt, MD 20770 (240) 678-3435 cell (310) 345-9087 home <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">knakash1@yahoo.com <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">knakashima@rif.org

Maggie Peterson 3061 Shad Pkace Riva, MD 21140 (443) 607-8298 home (443) 744-0773 cell <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">magpete@umd.edu

Anika Prather 2703 Shawn Court Fort Washington, MD 20744 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">anikabutterfly@aol.com