First lecture completed as a whole collective. It was great to meet educators not only from LCF, but from other universities as well. It took me several hours to read the Holmwood extract and Lindsay mentioned in her email that this was an easy read! Not for me! I thought that I would be the only one struggling, but after today’s session I realised we were all in the same boat. We are all creative tutors and haven’t read academic articles for a while so to get our heads around language was one thing with new terminology thrown on top. It made me realise that for a student and more so as a foreign student, you do really need to think about the way you phrase words, the pace you speak at and your enunciation.
Today’s session wiped me out! There was so much to take in and so much for me to review later on and analyse in another blog. I loved working in these small tiny groups as I felt comfortable to say my opinions even if they didn’t make sense or really answer the questions in hand. I enjoyed discussing ideas and then being forced to summarise it into a phrase or a question. This taught me that i had an understanding of what was going on and made me feel confident that I actually had some intellectual opinions that my team thought were good!
I’m pleased to hear you got more confidence from the session! You certainly have a lot to contribute.
I think the Holmwood’s chapter was badly written and tedious to read. This I consider symbolic violence towards those who need to read such texts. You are right, we should pay attention to how we express ourselves to students! I think it is intellectual laziness not to bother to write clearly. You should not feel that you don’t understand, the person who wrote it should have made it possible for the audience to read!