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confusion

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 9:12pm.

So now I'm confused.
OTOH, "shared understandings are...the goal of storytelling or rhetoric."
OTOH, "the goal is... moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar,
so that new insights...mutual criticism and refinement...
can be generated."

I'm confused about how "disciplined" you want your classroom conversations to be, how much aimed @ consensus, how much room you are willing to allow for differences, how much you are looking for convergence....

From my perspective, the point of gathering different folks together in the classroom is to keep unsettling any collective agreement, to keep our differences in play, rather than to arrive @ a shared understanding...

So I want to understand better what you are aiming towards
(and how you get there).

Thanks!
A.

P.S.
I've just requested your cynicism book through interlibrary loan, so soon we can have that conversation, too/add that layer to this one....

[x-posted @ The Long Eighteenth]

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