Transformative Learning: 2019-2024
The past year has kept me silent as I focused on constructing my thesis after years of scholarship. Now, we wait to hear what, if anything, will be accepted for publication after peer review. A hiatus after more than 15 months of reading and writing and rewriting. Is it any wonder that little energy remained […]
On Nakata’s Cultural Interface Theory
“The research you do will have the power to label, name, condemn, describe, or prescribe solutions to challenges in former colonized, indigenous peoples and historically oppressed groups. You are encouraged to conduct research without perpetuating self-serving Western research paradigms that construct Western ways of knowing as superior to the Other’s ways of knowing”. Bagele Chilisa. […]
On Completing a Journey of Ten Thousand Words
On the day I last posted to the blog – 28th July 2023 – I began work on a 10,000 word research article in response to peer-reviewed acceptance of my abstract submitted back in April for a very important conference of relevance and interest. The deadline for submission is the end of the month, but […]
May the new worlds being born be natural
I do not know, as I begin this solemn rhythm on my keyboard whether I hit publish on this post or not. If you find yourself reading these words, then know that I did indeed do so. I can feel the new world/s being born. They do not feel industrial. Humankind’s peak industrialization, energy […]
June’s Full Moon
Johnson Tsang’s Under the Skin from his Lucid Dream series (2018) captures my feelings in this very moment right now on the 4th of June 2023, a full moon this morning. Its called a Strawberry Moon but my walk took me down into the wooded cemetery on the shores of the sea and not past […]
Thinking with your hands
“… it is often far more time-consuming to attempt to describe hand-work in words than simply to demonstrate it.” (Smith, 2022) “…finally, and most significantly, if we conceive of skills as arising at the interface of the human senses and human body with the natural environment…” (Smith, 2022) “Thinking with your hands” – as a […]
Knowledge systems and making space for the embodied and experiential
Liberating myself from technical specifications of word count, third person voice, tone and choice of words is the power given to me in my own blog space – my ba, if you will – where I can play around with bits of ‘knowledge’ and rearrange them as I will. There are new concepts that I […]
A multi-generational inheritance of cultural capital
From the generation of global nomads/third culture kids (TCK) who grew up before the advent of the internet, reading through contemporary works by TCKs of younger generations has been eye-opening. I’d always been aware of the transformation of my own experience of relationships as communications technology changed, but I don’t think I’d realized that there […]
Pondering the standpoint of a third culture kid (TCK) exploring plural knowledge systems
“[We] reflected on what it meant to be Brown academics (Curtis-Boles et al., 2012; Muhs et al. 2012) while personally navigating multiple cultural and work boundaries as transnational women (Joseph 2014).” (Lahiri-Roy, Belford, & Sum, 2021) Looking for a standpoint from which to respectfully approach different knowledge systems, particularly local, traditional, and Indigenous ones, led […]
I am thinking about thinking
“Knowledge creation is a continuous self-transcending process” Nonaka, Konno, & Toyama, 2001 My introduction to Yunkaporta’s work led me to dive more deeply into the exploration of thinking about diverse knowledge systems. I can taste unformed thoughts in my mind but do not yet have the words to manifest them. What could help me help […]
