I want to avoid sessions where the arrival at university will be thrown information at them as they passively wonder around overwhelmed and confused.
I want to find a way for them to share interesting accounts of concepts that they are expert in and which can very easily be transformed into academic accounts and skills.
I want to create sessions where the students will be able to share things they know well from their experiential, personal, tacit and embodied knowledge that we can easily transform together to academic knowledge, language, practices, disciplines, methodologies and methods. For example:
Death and mourning, funerals , tradition, what is done and how it is done. How it works in practice?
South African youngsters go through an extremely difficult time when they come to universities. They are overwhelmed and find it hard to adjust and cope.
The first months are awful for them.They feel isolated, lonely and shocked. They have no clue what is going on.
What can we do about so as not to lose them?
Traditional courses and higher education are about passing the courses and the syllabus and curriculum of the course.
There are lectures, seminars and reading materials that are designed to do this.
I am using Francis Fukuyama’s (1992). The End of History And the Last Man to show the importance of dialectical tension and use and fusion of contradictions and the clash between them
After spending three days asking me questions and deconstruting and problematizing my answers and responses, I was told that
the point of the exercise was to emphasize to you the NEED for you to provide a rigorous and detailed account of your method, written so someone else can follow it, explained academically in analytical and evaluative relation (similarities and differences) to grounded-theory and Freire's dialectics, as well as Popper et al., along with an account of how you perform both the (semi-structured) interviews and the post-interview reflections and dialogue. Alongside this, we need to see selected transcripts of interviews and detailed empirical results, and analysis, before we would publish your work.