Emergency Values and Phenomena

The Other Environmentalism
 
               Emergency Procedures
 
Are you prepared?
General Safety Policies
Reporting an Emergency
What to Do in an Emergency
Basic Evacuation Procedures for All
Fire
Bomb Threat Procedures
Chemical Spill or Bio-hazard
Power Failure/ Gas Leak
Medical Emergency
Psychological Crisis
Tornado/Severe Weather
Hostile Visitor
Weapon Observed
Lockdown
 
   We Make Little Engines that Could
 
Epistemologic :
 
Our various Ways  of Knowing
 (processes, methods, underlying
assumptions  &  hypotheses,
controlling & hidden metaphors)
as opposed to what ?
 
(Answer: content)
 
Of course, once we package-up
the ways-we-know, it becomes  
knowledge-content inventory
rather than inventing and no
longer epistemologizing. 
True?
 
IT’s always that way:
we noun-ize our verbing
and  vice versa:  reduce our
verbalizing to some solid state
& nominate denominations to
make our stereotypes. Mash-up
it’s called these days.
 
What are you going to do about it?
Nothing to be done except sometimes
be aware of the fundamental difference
in a house divided by Nominalization
and Verbalizing and work it to eco-
logical advantage so as not to be
confusing things and no-things:
matter and whattsa-matter.
 
  LEARNING:  the dilemma
 
To consider learning in terms of  
 
1)  a change in whole-system calibration
 or
2)  as a  problem in self-correction  from
     moment to moment
 or
3)  as  surrender to the boundary  between  
    X)   conscious self-correction  and
    Z)   unconscious  obedience to inner calibration.
 
“Surrender” is a curious word here, yes?  
And “obedience.”
 
We teach in-terms-of Conscious Self-Correction
from moment to moment: you assign some THING
& I get it right  (good) or wrong  (repair). Like
shooting a rifle or basketball at a fixed  target &
given a rating, assessment, accreditation, evaluation
& grade on each shot—as if each shot  were
a big deal.
 
As opposed to emphasizing the recalibration that
occurs over many “shots” in time as the process
becomes automatic (semi-to-unconscious): shotgun
shooting from the hip at  moving targets so Obama
can hit a 3-pointer spontaneously on the campaign trail. .
 
               Shoot first. Think later.
 
The kind of learning that privileges shooting before
thinking  might could be called  “transformative” if
Jeanne & Ali could agree & teach us but we don’t
seem  to have good shared terms for fitting-it-in to
thought fullness and we  assume  IT happens by
focusing on  be-here-now seize-the-day
moment to moment self-conscious
I think I can I think I can
self- corrective process.
 
Which it does not.
Oh contrary.