One family member's name, the big brother, translates to "Stealing." We read this line "Stealing (Health We Hope)" as a potential outburst, or a moment to contrast the vertical power in Ms. Stock's class.Though we left this out of our paper, in our discussions before submitting this paper, we recognized that Ms. Stock's parenthetical annotation illustrated a moment in which she expressed instability in her authority. Whether this naming indicated a conscious decision by the students to rebel against Ms. Stock's authority, or a name created in jest, Ms. Stock's parenthetical addition indicated a moment in which she lost absolute power.
Good luck to you all! Please enjoy this course! I know "Cultures of Learning" prepared me for my current academic pursuits in UMass Boston's History MA program. And it sure was a darned ol' time being with my best friends in this course.
Kindest regards to y'all.
David Reker
1 comment:
Nice reflections, David. Thank you. A good example of reading "against the grain" of a document seemingly sealed agaist out efforts to perceive student agency and subjectivity within the school. Power must respond to resistance and in doing so it may leave traces of that negotiated moment in these documents. From them maybe we see elements of student experience from a "student" perspective.
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