Making Meaningful Connections: Being Responsive to Our Students
As humans we tell stories, and make drama, we attempt to make our narratives meaningful to the listener, to help them see connections and to participate. In each telling, or dramatic performance, the narrative may change as we respond to the reactions of...Performance is not real! Life is not real!
Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on June 05, 2015 ************** When I talk about life as performative, people say “what do you mean?” When I talk about how we are performing discourses of what it is to be a man, woman, immigrant, professionals etc,...Performing “Understandings” and/or “Wrongs”
Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on November 21, 2010 Henry Miller said, “Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.” Like children there is a certain degree of play in unfamiliar or challenging situations as we learn,...Human Activity and Improvisation
Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on April 20, 2010 *********** I’m participating in an international learning community on Performance. In response to one of my fellow conversationalists I said “all of lived activity in my view is an improvisation.” To...Sponsors
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