Posts by Kerry Weston
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I did a poetry paper online - an actual writing poems one, called Love, Loss & Looking Around - and i thought it was great until i went to the contact course and experienced poetry live. Gobsmacked. I'd missed a whole dimension.
Same with practical art - I learnt alongside practising artists and it's what you absorb of their "whole" approach. Thought, talk, action, how they position and use their bodies - it's the whole body language thing that is lost online. The round-table discussions, a casual remark that flings open an unexpected window for you.
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Thats a bit like decaffeinated coffee, why would anyone sign up for that?
I think the extramural enrolments outnumber the internals already. A lot of history papers are extramural, some exclusively, and plenty of English papers are extramural now. Better interactive online forums make it more viable - and 2-3 day contact courses mean you can knock off a couple of papers around work commitments etc. It's not as good as actually attending - I did half of my degree extramurally.
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"future generations will be stupified by "the postmodern orthodoxy that the body is primarily, if not entirely, a linguistic and discursive construction." from
Hayles reviewthat's my kinda thinking! Thanks for the antidote.
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I'd point out all the limitations and caveats if it weren't for my reliance on regular paychecks.
Heh. Don't mind me, I've come under the influence of New Media evangelists this semester - it's like Mark Harris on steroids - all this talk of clouds processing, cyborgs etc. My poor old brain struggles to encompass it and I constantly critique it for loss of necessary human ways of being. No escaping it for the young 'uns though.
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Wee closed shop there e Kerry-
yeah, I think you might be right about that. And from what a lecturer was saying the other day, Massey is looking to ramp up the online extramural thing. maybe ditch actual internal classes (for Arts papers) in the not-too-distant?
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All these enrichment programs are victims to the back-to-basics drive of the last few years (in NZ and elsewhere). It's what I meant when, in response to Paul Litterick, I said "residualised" public sector. The schools of last resort.
Do you think there will be a substantial move to on-line learning? Seems quite a sensible idea to me (glories of new media etc), but I figure that won't go down too well with those who view schools as glorified holding pens.
Looks like culling country schools is back on the agenda too - there's eight recommended to close in the Tararua district (Dannevirke to Masterton approx.) reported in the Dom today.
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And at Massey, word is that students are no longer being encouraged to do journalism. Damn shame, really - when I started my degree I was planning on doing the post grad journo year, with an eye on sub-editing. On my last 3 papers now and I have no frigging idea what I'll do ... and I used to be a painter, too. You'd think i would have learnt and done something truly useful like investment banking, aye.
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I think that the response of a proportion of the population cannot be characterised as anything other than "why aren't those beneficiaries suffering? How dare they live decent lives?".
Spot on. Reminds me of Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning, talking about his father's attitude to Blacks: "If I'm not better than a nigger, son, who am I better than?"
What sickens me is PB claiming regret at the backlash. PB and the rest of her kind know very well that women on the DPB are the witches of our age, easy targets for anyone with a gutful of bitterness. Any working man or woman on the minimum wage trying to support a family would feel resentment at some perceived 'easy wicket' - in fact politicians rely on that very ugly streak coming to the fore and making life as unbearable as possible for their target. Nothing like a good dose of shame and ostracism to put them in their place.
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And one more thing they've ditched in education: Artists in Schools
But we don't want imaginative, independent, associative thinkers, do we?
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You are so depressingly right, Danielle.