I am back to post. I am reading and writing. I am working to intersect hermeneutic phenomenology, which I used as my research methodology for my dissertation and the method of currere. The latter is an autobiographical method, in part, based on existential philosophy to explore curriculum through one’s lived-experience. As well, it uses Freudian psychoanalytic theory as part of its foundations. It is this latter aspect I am contrasting with hermeneutic phenomenology as both are interpretive methods.
I moved to radical hermeneutics, linking it with my writing. What I found is there is an overlap with poetry and non-duality.
Bill Pinar developed the method of currere and used Zen philosophy as a third leg for the method. The voice in hermeneutics is poetic, seeking to understand the world in non-dualistic ways and subvert binary thinking. As I looked for a poem, I found this one by Wu Hsin.
When I am mindful and present to the world in its past, present, and future moments the text I live comes to life with new meaning.
Just as the honey is not sweetness,
The words of Wu Hsin are not
The truth.
However, time spent with these words is like
The aftermath of rain.
In due course, a sprouting of
Understanding will occur and
Will bear fruit at a pace
Outside of one’s control.
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About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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Indeed, Ivon. Words can penetrate to a deeper level of understanding that is not always open to the literal/binary mind; for this to occur there is needed the suspension of the literal and an opening of the poetic. To articulate the result is not always an easy passage. However, you have done so within this post. Well done to you.
Thank you Carolyn. I like your word choice: suspension. It has a similar meaning as bracketing in phenomenology.
Great poem! Thanks for the introduction to a new poet. You are broadening my experience with poets of various nationalities. I appreciate it!
Thank you Marie. I am glad you enjoyed the poem and the poet.
A wonderful poem. I must, however, honestly admit, that I am, with your derivation, at the time mentally a little bit overstretched. I understand what you mean, but I have not had such thoughts for a long time. I have to get some distance from the region again. LOL 😉 Thank you, and best wishes for the weekend. 😉 Michael
Thank you Michael. Take care and enjoy.
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