Hi all, hope everyone is doing okay during this busy time of year! I wanted to take this opportunity to revisit a few of my past blogs, some expanded and revised, to consolidate the thinking we have done so far in preparation for the second half of the term. I have chosen my first entry on orality and literacy because not only does the the topic interest me deeply, but it has provided a framework for a lot of my thinking throughout the course. It is also my post with the most resulting dialogue, and the dialogue that made me think the most critically when responding to it. For that, I thank these (and all) of my interlocutors!
I chose my second post, on home, because writing it made me reflect deeply on what home can be. It is a word that we often use flippantly, and so it felt good to re-examine what exactly home means to me.
Finally, I chose my post on dichotomous thinking because I think that binaries are something we need to be wary of falling into. This concept is something that I want to carry with me as we move on in the course, and so it felt appropriate to return to it at this point.
All of these blogs have in common that writing them really made me think, and that they led me to new ideas that I had not necessarily had before. I feel all of them respond to their respective prompts well and that their topics have a bearing on the core themes of the course.
Enjoy, and see you all with a new post soon!