Federal Rules Back Single-Sex Public Education
A sticky topic. Doubtless, I’m suspicious of the ideology behind the decision.
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Writing — ensemble jourine
http://www.ensemblejourine.com/ is out. It’s an online journal of hybrid writing by women. Reading women’s writings over the years, I’ve experienced innumerable lives and stories of lives. It’s an undercurrent I dive down to to be swept away with. There, I feel a particular affliation with women.
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Ways of knowing
Women’s Ways of Knowing by Belenky, Clincky, Goldberger and Tarule is a book based on a 5 year study, interviews with 135 women. It’s a must-read for anyone in education.
When I left music and writing songs, I exchanged a particular voice in lieu of another, or so I think. I’ve been attending to life differently, expanding my own ways of knowing to include things masculine. Since I’ve always been able to adapt, even as a child, it hasn’t been difficult. I’ve never felt completely satisfied in one or the other orientations to knowing.
Adaptability is a survival skill. Leaving music and writing songs was a survivial tatic. Getting techie was a survival tactic. I’ve been clear about that all along because I’ve said all along, “If I’d had my drothers, I would have pursued an advanced degree in creative writing or something…, Ed Tech was about having work, interesting work for the next 20+ years.”
I still think that, but there’s more. In working with just the handful of faculty I work with, and from the classes I’m taking, I feel like I’ve come back around, back around to that way of knowing that notices things in a particular way. Things like the fact that sports dominate public space, that lesbians try hard to not look like lesbians, that men dominate the distributed conversations in the blogosphere and that educational technologies, based on a masculine way of knowing, feel foreign to women and peoples who’s ways of knowing are more organic, holistic and relational.
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