A short story about a day in the life of someone who is considering doing my flexible learning course. This person is not called X because it is a sad name for a human who may have a range of flexible learning needs. Instead I am calling her Singe.
This story highlight issues that Singe may have for NOT doing my flexible learning course, as it is set up at the present time. At the same time these very same reflectiosn hold the potential for achievement on a deeply satisfying personal level. More about this another time...
Singe is a dancer - for the last thirty seven years she has spent between two and twelve hours daily manoeuvering her body around space - learning bodily intelligence. A synchronous application of mind participating with body. This place in bodily tissues became her training ground and also her job... when she had children, she became a mother's body too.. fluid, vast and ultimately singed.
Singe has had some of the following issues: not only does she have several jobs - managing a clinical practice for others' sore bodies, directing creative acts in dancers' choreographies and teaching other bodies about movement vocabularies, she never wonders about the problems of affording study but implicitly trusts that there is space in the world for her learning - it is a juggle but she knows that she can find the reasons to leave the precarious heave of employment for study.
Further to these spacious deliberations, Singe has had to be able to move (between) cities to find new sites of work, to attend classes and to invade new bodies. Difficulties range between straddling conceptual differences in learning in classrooms and learning within a sort of extreme virtual space. We could replace those two learning words simultaneously with teaching... and therein lies the what is not yet known - a curious and deliciously scary space.
Singe seeks to maintain self clarity and serenity at the pace of others, so that the belief that her new courses do not fit exactly with the range of things she wants to learn settles in to a list of simpler problems: she may not feel comfortable using computers (partly due to a rejection of the micro movement range which engenders pain and thickening in valuable connective tissues), her disability in managing relationships in a student centred environment and loneliness from missing her faraway family can only enrich her journey.
The purpose of me writing this story is to consider as many reasons as I can where people like me might be better able to access a flexible learning course. HINT: If you are able, it is best to read my story about a real situation as it has already been encountered if not heard about, and not necessarily confirmed.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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