The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Dear Colleagues, My Colleagues 

Cultivating Local Food for Thought
  (Gardeners without Tuxedos series)
 
“Hey SAM!  You are talking 
TRANS-DISCIPLINARY!”    Laura L.
 
Might could hook this notion up with
androgeny  & our current transgender
issues?  I’m asking  Hermes, Aphrodite
and the Trickster to help integrate
the triad
 
Hands across the oceans.
Hands across the sees:
    curriculum
       culture
          custom
             convention
                 convenience
                        aisles…
 
The SAMES and Differences game.
& let neither occlude  the other?
 
       E Unum Pluribus savvy?
 
                 ******
 
Ahh yes, it is cultural change that happens,
internal and external.
 
Can that sort of change be guided through
discussion. Facilitated?  
 
However imperfectly the process may be?
 
We teach systematically and with structure,
at least that is what students often prefer.
We are to be organized. Can we have
          use- structured chaos
as a process to change instead of a
framework, steps and system?  
 
Or are all those part of the structure that
underlies a chaos that we allow in order to
open space for the emerging ideas and values?
 
However imperfect, is it not worthwhile to
try it and see what emerges?  Or are we too
risk adverse or just too busy?
 
Yours in facilitation, Susan
 
                    ****
 
    However imperfect: perfect!
 
Let Perfection be enemy of good.
Let Be be finale of seem. “The only
emperor is the emperor of ice scream.”
 
One the one hand: the necessary and
insufficient dominion of  systematic
structure: determined  goals, outcomes
and assessment procedures. Know where
we’re going, go there, reflect rigorously
& evaluate.
 
On the other hand:  indeterminacy,
uncertainty, chance, OMG unexpected
emerging  values: antithetical, antagonistic,
dia-bolical, parabolical: let the bear goe
over  the mountain to see what he can see.
(Stalwart pioneering. towardfrontiers yet
unknown. )
 
         Use-Structured Chaos?
 Innovation generating stochastic process.
   (Encourage Failure, Suspect Clarity.)
 
Can these 2 hands Just Get Along or
does it always got to be the
sound of one hand
clapping.?

No, really: I'm asking Listen,
here's  the sound of one hand clapping:
 
Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures
gives administrators and faculty the tools
they need to craft persuasive arguments,
make informed decisions anchored in the
literature, and devise changes in policy
and procedures that will foster successful
and sustainable interdisciplinary research
 and education.
 
The book provides a systematic approach
to inter-disciplinarity on campus, grounded
in a conceptual framework, and also
presents a portfolio of pragmatic
strategies.
    
Need we argue?

xxxooo, Sam