Anne Dalke's blog

The second "impossible" task I gave you this evening was to "imagine--and then map--utopia." Below find photos of what we came up with. What did you learn from this exercise--or from comparing these maps, or from our conversation afterwards?

Thanks to all for indulging me, this evening, in an exercise of representing ideas iconically instead narratively, visually instead of in the verbal form that's more common in academia. You were also engaging in a "warm-up exercise for the "web events" you'll produce next week. So....

below find the five "teaching maps" you created of McDermott and Varenne's essay on "Culture as Disability." What a range of visualizations you produced of the same text! I'd welcome further conversation about what you learned in doing this, or in comparing the various representations.....

Beware what you ask for! I tracked down the source for those models in pink. Whaddya think??

... a PHYSICAL copy of your "access map" to class on Tuesday, so we can compare notes in small groups.

As you map your "access to education" this weekend, look to
How to add an image to your post for assistance in getting it up on Serendip.

Hey--I'm Anne Dalke, one of the co-teachers here. I'm excited to be "reviving" and "revising" a version of the core course in Gender Studies that I first taught w/ Kaye Edwards in '97 and again in '98. It's been amazing for me to see, as we planned the course over the summer, how far each of us has traveled since that initial collaboration. I have to admit that I'm just a little bit worried about the overfullness of the syllabus--all those P's! Among them, "precarity" is strong to me now, because a good friend of mine, Paul Grobstein, died earlier this summer.

... of my (rather checkered!) educational autobiography. I'm Anne Dalke, one of the profs for this ESem. I was raised in the rural south, where I attended (pretty poor) K-12 public schools; spent a year in the 13th grade of a girls' school, as an exchange student in northernmost Germany; returned to the States to attend the College of William and Mary -- feeling aggrieved because the better state school, UVa, wasn't taking women in those days (!!); however, the tuition cost was only $500/semester! I majored in English (I'd always liked to read, and I was dating a man who kept writing poems that I didn't know how to respond to...).