Refreshing ideas...how do I teach this way....wouldn't it be great to have a box by the door where students drop in their ideas...a collection of scraps of paper...found stuff...things...a pebble that make you think of how and idea ripples outward....how interesting the concepts in "A Model of Argument in Antigone" support the ideas in "Box Logic." If we could see how recognizing difference actually takes us closer to the truth...there is no one idea...there is a multiplicity of thought. I would love to teach nonlinear writing...hybridity....This is the way we think after all....One thought spinning off the other...like the Renga poem or the jazz jam.
The greatest so far in teaching the exploratory essay is to inspire students not to begin with a position before they have allowed themselves the adventure of discovery....of inquiry. They are so used to be told what to do (and we reward and punish based on this) that it is difficult to inspire them to think for themselves, to not just follow the path that you have laid out for them put to build their own path. I found that when I defined where they looked for sources that is all they did. I had to give them permission to follow their own instincts. But the box logic affirms that is all relevant and helps them develop their associative language/design skills. This will beneficial them today because all ideas all situations are complex....none linear and simple...there are no black and white issues.
It is nice to read references to poets as rhetorical thinkers and to value the haphazard and chance in critical thinking.
The greatest so far in teaching the exploratory essay is to inspire students not to begin with a position before they have allowed themselves the adventure of discovery....of inquiry. They are so used to be told what to do (and we reward and punish based on this) that it is difficult to inspire them to think for themselves, to not just follow the path that you have laid out for them put to build their own path. I found that when I defined where they looked for sources that is all they did. I had to give them permission to follow their own instincts. But the box logic affirms that is all relevant and helps them develop their associative language/design skills. This will beneficial them today because all ideas all situations are complex....none linear and simple...there are no black and white issues.
It is nice to read references to poets as rhetorical thinkers and to value the haphazard and chance in critical thinking.
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