The Amateurization of The Profession.
We’re all up to our gnosis in final week
so I don’t expect response, reaction,
improvement of my terms and assumptions..
The summer stretches across the universe of our
imaginations & curricular-concerns & no matter
where we’ll be, we’re in touch and engaged & all
in the family, kin & kind: a part even apart.
This is the new normal, yes?.
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Can For-the-Love-of- IT
and
For PAY
Just Get Along?
Alice Amateur and Pete Professional bump
into each other at the Crossroads, and
repair to a bar to consider the damage done.
Who will be boss? .
This is how I personify & mythologize so as
to embody and manifest abstractions so as
to put them in play. Dramatize. .
Let not the 2 be falsely collapsed. Radically
different & appropriately hostile values
(amateur & professional) and how they get
along—or not—is crucial & the crux of the matter. .
Which would you rather lose:
your amateur standing or
your professional standing?
Team Professional Patriarchy dominates, don’t you
agree? I’ll pay you for your services. You pay me
for mine. No free lunch. Common sense. Tit for tact.
Etc. .
Not long ago, some idiot in the community would NOT
have this kind of access to public forum, not because
of censorship but techno-logically we hadn’t evolved
this far.
It makes a difference that makes a Difference with
regard to everything: learning, teaching, regulating,
accrediting, documenting, plagiarizing, rabid rapid
free exchange of noggin notions, fashion & style,
social relationships, communication across the
universe and the impact on day-to-day: such tink
a tank tunk and hullabaloo, as Wallace Stevens
might say.
We must factory-it-all in, don’t you agree? —as
professionals and amateurs. Put it in play. Recalibrate.
Reconfigure, Reformat & formulate a Reformation. of
mind-set & attitude: reconstitute the milieu, say: the
Other Environment.
In considering the philosophy of learning and teaching
(the p in our phd) as opposed to house keeping ecological
issues …
(governance,
budget, the
specifics of disciplines,
recruiting, image & PR,
forest use, no swimming
in the swimming pond…),
we would be addressing for the first time since I’ve been
here:
The other Environment.
Domological, call it.
Domain issues (dominion, dominance concerns)
as opposed to the ecologic, seeing as “house” is
not “home” and we can’t collapse or conflate
the 2 without confusing the issues.
Not talking golf carts &
spills, the environmentalism that pays efficient
attention to climate and nature and physical
resources—but rather our mysterious ambient
atmosphere & spirit, local zeitgeist: intangible
and un-substantial, the Internal Psychological
Environment and Shared Unconscious Frame
of Mind inside which we do our work—as
professionals professing professionally. ..
Our local culture traps.
Our Invisible On the One Hand & On the Other,
the shape shifting parameters & structural
dichotomies transparent not in the way they
can be seen—but just the opposite: beyond our
rationalizing grasp and manipulation. Our hidden
assumptions and controlling metaphors concealed
like truffles and protected like family jewels..
Like trying to raise the dread, Paula—presumptuous
grandiosity not with standing. Stirring the somnolent:
us necrophiladelphians: dead in denial filtering our
literacy-agenda against the galloping reformation
of post-literacy and neo-oral environmentalism
so to speak. .
I call for a collective brain washing:
washed in the flood of our spam:
scrub a dub dub For the hard of
hearing we got to yell, says
Flannery O & good slams
are hard to find..
How to tweak the professional professionally without
reinforcing the professionalism? Got to pay us to think:
stipends & released time, damnit, faculty developmental
funding and the pay-me-actions speak louder than words.
We pros.
Reinvent the wheels of liberal art, if not the liberal arts.
Zero base our thinking up from old scratch. That’s how
I’d frame our PLT: the Philosophy of Learning & Teaching
self-service project. Edification, call it, as opposed to
education.
Turn up the proper ongoing foe -dichotomy between the
amateur and the pro,and keep it in play so as to work-up
shared emergency phenomenon and values we might
invest in—stake holders as we say these days rather
than share holders as we used to call it when we
“owned” the place--so to speak. Always in
manners of speaking.
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