Sure, I'll draw for you....
Savings Group Summit was a wonderful meeting- world cafe, debates, under the mango tree storytelling. I think the biggest divide or tension in our community is the question of scale. Broaden vs. deepen access for groups? Are these at odds or mutually reinforcing?
Before it breaks
even before it
begins with the
ache of sky, its
low belly drum roll. Powder
blue holding its own
against barrelling grey.
Could be a rumble, baby.
Air muck-thick, bloated. The
weight of stout in champagne
sink in the spray
whiff of dirt.
Who knows but I trust
this heft.
Spit and
silence rock the
tender trees,
could take this
anywhere dripping green.
Almost water but well
before the floods
on the dewy
lip of riot.
Peter Taylor (IDRC formerly IDS, University of Sussex) and I just finished an article on the transformative potential of arts in learning and social change. It draws on examples of poetry, creative writing and experiences of innovative practice shared by adult educators through an e-forum from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. The paper provides a conceptual frame to explore tensions in adult learning between the mytho-poetic and the critical-rational, and between the individual and the collective. It will be published in the Journal of Adult and Contiuing Education in October.Contact me if you'd like a copy.
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