ED 526 – Geneology notes and things to reflect on
Foucault – The production of society causes these behaviors inscribed on the power. Power produces and where there is power, there is resistance.
Geneology – trying to situate/textual tool – finding out the normalizing documents are in your field, look at the moral, ethical statements, what is development, nature of education, assumptions – placing the document into the present context. Breaking it apart – then see the political reality. ie. History of the present – understand everything that goes into the production of the document and how it plays out in society
- What is the influence in the scholarship that was occurring. Deconstruction is not the method of critique, but how it situates in people, actions, etc. Critical scholarship. What are you reconstructing? Foucault – what is the norm would you rather place it with? Attempts to re-normalize a specific place in the world. You have to account for your own subjectivity. One of the power relations.
- What is your pragmatic stance – what is it you are interested in in the document, how are they using that? ie. interested in teacher mindset, etc. This makes things more manageable. Have a question or intersection of questions will keep you focused – trust your gut in figuring out that question. What are the things that keep coming up for you whether you want to or not. What is core to what you want to know about? What’s the core you keep coming back to?
- Printed out document and highlighted the statements that are interesting – pay attention what they are talking and not talking about (silencing)/ what was not said as a means of keeping out of the conversation. Cultural normalization
- Where have we put these silences. To get at the silences, it changes the narrative. What are the choices we choose not to see in order to go about our daily lives. Privilege of obliviousness. A burden of awareness.
I can’t go on yet I must go on.
- Entering the texts to find what is hidden there. History is invoked in present actions.
- Finding the narratives in the geneology
- Identity theory – situated and distributed cognition – using the cognition of the group which is a task to purchase change. It’s a non-deficit view. – you’ve accounted for the culture and the individual within the culture. In the act of doing, you transform/make it dynamic. How do you renormalize in a way that equalizes the power relations. If normalization is inevitable, how do you do so in ways are not oppressive.
There is the assumption that power is oppressive. Power oppresses as opposed to power produces.
- The practice of everyday life.
Genetic epistemology - the study of where knowledge originates.
Intelligence – systematically file information. The more unfaithful the critical copies, the more we use terms like “insane” and retarded.
To know them, he must displace, connect, combine and reassemble them. Knowledge at its origin, neither arises from objects nor from the subject, but is inexplicable from subject-object.
-Mediated by language and speach, preconceptions and cognition.
-Assimilation are in states of equilibrium and disequilibrium. – Disequilibrium. Human nature is to seek equilibrium
If we hit disequilibrium – Change our schema, or we fit it into our schema. In this process, is a transformation. (Interactions between subjects and objects) How can we observe what is going on in this space.
Wednesday’s Workout
For today: 2 miles in 25 minutes, 30 minutes on the elliptical, 20 minutes of free arm weights, 50 side planks, 50 side sit ups, 50 pelvic tilts, 50 leg lifts, 160 crunches, and 10 tunnels.
There’s nothing better than when your 5 year old helps you count reps. He got tired of counting after 126. He also showed me how to do tunnels (which are really, really tough, actually!). Tomorrow, he promised he’d show me how to add jumping jacks to my workout routine. :P
My goal: Doing 2 miles under 20 minutes.
Music that helped: Avicii’s Levels
BPA and Texting Links
BPA Update – BPA Gets a Reprive – For now:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2110902,00.html
Texting and Driving – Woman Falls Off Of Pier after Texting while Walking:
http://www.zagg.com/community/blog/woman-falls-off-pier-after-texting-while-walking/
April’s Arms and Abs Challenge!
In case you are wondering – yes, I’m doing this, with a few extra modifications on the side. What better way to start out the month!!!
You can even join the support group on Facebook if you’re doing this!
This is from the Domestic Diva in Training blog:
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Cross Out and the Gelatinous Mass
Cross Out and the Gelatinous Mass
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, there was an eight year old superboy genius named Davis Verhoeven. He was everything that his parents ever wanted – incredibly intelligent, witty, and with a ginormous kind heart. Wanting to do good in the world, the super boy genius decided that he would become a superhero. So in his father’s garage, he fashioned a cape out of his big Blue blanket, and made a super ninja suit complete with giant red X’s on his hands. He called himself Cross Out. On one of his visits to his father’s lab, Davis aka Cross Out made a potion that would also give him extraordinary powers – super strength, the ability to fly, and laser eye vision. His dad also made him a nifty gadget tool belt just to make sure he was safe when he was out fighting baddies!
Afterschool, when Davis was finished reading and doing his homework, he would help the cops in Webster, NY fight crime – taking down the bad guys before they could hurt anyone. He spent his spare time helping cats out of tall trees, helping little brothers cross the street, and even rescuing shoes from naughty fat doggies. He became quite the superhero!
One day, at the University of Rochester, Davis’s little brother Carter was helping his mom with a chemistry experiment involving cabbage water and various household solutions to use for Mrs. Keesom’s third grade class. On the lab bench next to their experiment was a large beaker that read, “Do Not Touch. Contains Radioactive DNA and other Stuff.”
Of course still in kindergarten, Carter couldn’t read the word “Radioactive” and decided to take a sample of the DNA and mix it into a tube of cabbage water using his pipette. The tube turned bright pink. Then it turned purple! Then, it bubbled and churned and then turned green.
“Mommy, look!” Carter said proudly, showing the test tube to his mom.
When Mrs. V looked at the tube, her eyes got huge and she knew they were in trouble! “Carter! Put the tube in the test tube rack and quickly!” she said, pulling Carter back from the lab bench.
The contents in the tube bubbled. It smoked. It burbled and gurgled. Then suddenly…it EXPLODED! Fortunately, Mrs. V and Carter were wearing their protective goggles and lab jackets, so they were just covered in this thick green slime.
When the smoke cleared, there was a giant, gelatinous mass on the floor!
“RAWERRRRR!!!!” it made a loud, loud noise and lurched…and bubbled and gurgled. “BRAAAIIINNNZZZEEE!!!” it said.
“Carter, RUN!” Mrs. V yelled, grabbing her youngest son and making a mad dash out of the building.
The Gelatinous Mass grew. It grew and grew and grew until it dripped and oozed out of the door, and through the cracks of the window. It dribbled across the floor and down the elevator.
“BRAAAIIINNNZZZEEE!!!” it said, and swallowed up a graduate student that happened to be nearby. “ARRGGGGGHHHH!!!!”
The poor grad student was stuck in this mass of goo. But fortunately, try as it might, the gelatinous mass couldn’t eat the student’s brain because well….IT HAD NO TEETH! It didn’t have a stomach or a mouth either, so this poor student just…floated in the giant, growing green jelly as it oozed out of the science building and onto the campus lawn.
Fortunately, Davis was in the university library, reading a fascinating book on quantum particle Physics.
“DAVIS!” he heard his little brother yell as two lumps of running goo – namely his mother and little brother, came running up to him, with a very upset librarian yelling at them for leaving chunks of green jelly all over the carpet.
“QUICK, WE NEED CROSS OUT!!!!” his mother yelled!
In a flash, Davis ran into the boy’s bathroom and changed into his costume. He burst out of the stall and flew out the window! By now, the Gelatinous Mass had covered the whole campus and had swallowed up at least 50 professors and students on campus. Something had to be done and super fast!
Cross Out, being a very, very smart boy, always thought before he acted. So, he thought and thought about the problem. “I have an idea!” he exclaimed. “Hang on mom, I’ll be right back!” he said, as he grabbed his mom and little brother, and flew them up to the University Clock Tower where they were safe. He flew off at super fast speed and within half a minute, returned holding not one, but TWO giant salt trucks by his hands.
“What are you going to do with those, Davis, I mean Cross Out?” his mother asked.
“You’ll see mom!” Davis said, and flew over the to the Gelatinous Mass.
“BRAAAAINNNZZZZZ!!!” the giant green blob of jelly said as it tried to reach Cross Out.
“Bad Blob of Jelly!” Cross Out said, and dumped the rock salt on top of the blob.
Immediately it started to shrivel and dry up, spitting out all the people that it had tried to swallow. “MELTING!! I’M MELT-Innnnggggg” the Gelatinous (now not so massive) Mass said before it disappeared in a green poof.
“You shouldn’t have tried to eat the brains of all those people then,” Cross Out said, shaking his finger at the now disappeared Mass.
There was a huge cheer that went up and people came and carried Cross Out on their shoulders! His picture was on the front page of newspapers all over the country! “Hero of the Day! Hero of the Day!” people cheered.
After everything was over, Cross Out was reunited with his mother and Carter. Soon, his dad drove up to the campus, hearing about all the ruckus and to make sure everyone was safe. He was missing his shoes again because Toshi the evil fat dog had stolen and hidden them under his mom’s desk.
“Mom?” Davis said, after he had changed out of his super suit and back into his street clothes.
“Yes, son?” his mom asked, after kissing him on the head and giving him a big hug (she forgot that she was still covered with green goop).
“When we get home, Carter and I need a shower. And can you make me a grilled cheese sandwich?” he asked, wiping some of the goop from his cheek.
“Sure honey. After all you’re my little hero!” she kissed him on the cheek. <3
“But Davis,” his dad said, “what about my shoes?!”
This story was inspired and dedicated to Davis Verhoeven. You are everything we wanted, and we are so very proud of you! You can always accomplish what your mind and heart set out to do. I hope this story inspires you to dream big dreams, aim for the stars, and achieve your goals!
With much love,
Mom
…with a little help too, and much love from: Carter and Dad
