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Check out Tim Ingold on "processionality", Ivan. And check out that James quotation for a possible way to think about continuity/discontinuity. mike On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Ivan Rosero <irosero@ucsd.edu> wrote: > >From my own personal experience in a 5D-inspired, but wholly different > kind > of university-community partnership here in San Diego, the following strike > me as all critically true all at the same time: > > 1) From Don: > > Finally, one of the things we've tried to do is build a strong team culture > > for our undergrads, most of whom remain with the program for several > years. > > As new undergrads join us, the more experienced undergrad team members > > enculturate them in our collective values and practices, which has > provided > > quality and continuity in ways of working with kids and working with > peers > > on the team. It is the team of students who have constructed most of > the > > adaptations I mentioned earlier. The team operates as a collective > > leadership group, which seems to build their investment in and commitment > to > > the program and its underlying principles. > > > > 2) From Andy: > > I have found in my own work that having a "keeper of the dream" is > important > > for any project. If any specific thing is to be achieved, there must be > > exactly one person in the institution who "keeps the dream", whose life > > depends on the project and who thinks of nothing else, who is able to > revise > > the aims and rules of the project, and modify the realisation of the > dream > > as required and *fight* for it. > > > 3) community members, specially the community incarnation of the dream > keeper. > > I have seen the dream in the partnership I speak of ( > http://tclearninglounge.org ) become more shared and more "real" over the > last 4 1/2 years, but morphing at every single stage according to the > unpredictable combination of at least the factors above (I would add, in a > Latourian vein, a number 4) the actants that can't speak in understandable > English for themselves). > > Without 1 and 3, it seems to me the Dream Keeper risks keeping only just > that. > > "Continuity" in these scenarios is an interesting question, for what > exactly > is the thing that continuous? This seems to me quite analogous to (or a > definition of) mind --pulled along through the interaction/intersection of > various moving, and frequently disjoint, "dreams" that touch down here and > there in activity, and hold somehow (yet ever changing) over time. > > ivan > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca