Head Over to My New Website

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Barbara

If you are an old reader of bgblogging posts, you might be interested in heading over to my new blogsite, attached to my consultancy, Community Expressions, LLC. I hope you will visit me there and put your two cents in about my thoughts and work. While the writing I do there isn’t necessarily directly related [...]

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So This Is What It’s Like… Sort Of…

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Barbara

With a less than a week left of the Motley Group reading of Joyce’s Dubliners, I am lingering a bit too long, I realize, mid-collection, thinking about what I’ve read, how the stories talk to one another, undercut or intensify each another. I get pulled out of the book altogether for a few days at [...]

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Learning from Writers, Learning from Readers: Hearts and Minds in Balance

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Barbara

What an interesting time.   As I continue to shed my classroom-teacher identity, I am learning more and more about the imposter syndrome and semantic gaps in our culture between professional expert and layperson, and about the power of reciprocal apprenticeships.  And the delights of mixing heart and mind.  I am learning from young writers I [...]

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From Academy to Community and Back Again: On Being a Visitor

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Barbara

Three times this past month I have traveled back to school all while steadily journeying far far from that world. What a strange feeling to have so much I want to say and explore with people still on the inside while rejecting the structures of formal education. My closest colleagues, even in the Centers for [...]

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There’s No Doctor in This House, Just Someone Who Asks a lot of Questions: Where I’m Headed, Part One

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Barbara

“…for most [people], the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.” (Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1970 p.xix) I’m an unabashed generalist. A near novice in any field. Now that I’ve left my teaching position, I’m no longer qualified for it–I couldn’t even apply, wouldn’t make the interview round. No joke. A [...]

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On Shaking Things Up: Art and the Role of Surprise

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Barbara

“Imagination, more than any other capacity, breaks through ‘the inertia of habit.’” (Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination, p.2 quoting John Dewey) “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” Pablo Picasso “I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.” Flannery O’Connor A few years after college–after [...]

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Free flow: watching & learning from my students

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Barbara

While I’m sorting out my problems with archived posts’ broken links (argh), wrestling with upcoming talks, and complaining about Vermont’s never-ending winter, I thought it would do me and you good to move to a more positive outlook and point to some extraordinary work my students are doing with Web-based practices. (This is what I [...]

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