[SSC] some thoughts

[Joyce Canaan]

Hi all,
I am hoping to add to the document we so constructively discussed last
Saturday within the next few days.  One minor point from the email that Joss
sent:  can we start at 11am until 4pm as some people can't get there until
11? 

I have some additional thoughts I wanted us to discuss.I mentioned at the
meeting on Saturday that I would love to start researching the process by
which we are working (and would be keen to do so with others).  To this end,
can I suggest that we discuss the possibility of voice recording our
meetings so that it might be possible to analyse the processes by which we
are working together‹and dealing with challenges as and when they arrive--so
that we can develop these processes more effectively in future and share our
insights with others trying to set up similar projects? This would of course
need consent from all. Second, whether or not people feel comfortable with
voice recordings,  might some of us begin to create reflexive journals on
the process itself and its impact on other aspects of our lives? I ask this
because I am beginning to see that the thinking that we are doing together
is helping me realise how limiting the current HE system is and how my
contribution to the SSC stems from the strategies that I have been
developing to cope with and seek to transform this system.  My pleasure with
our work comes partly from recognising that we are  engaged in a process of
creating  powerful alternative ontologies and epistemologies of and for all
aspects of the university as a process.  Thus our re-imagining and
reconstructing (or as Mike said elsewhere), 'reinventing' the social
sciences through thinking collectively, collaboratively, respectfully, and
learning from and with others who are at least in some ways likeminded,
fills me with pleasure, delight and energy.  I think it would be interesting
to explore what we are bringing to and getting from this process as these
factors are crucial to understanding what we are engaged in creating.

Joyce



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