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Created: April 4, 2002
Latest Update: April 4, 2002
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu

Spring Performance of Moot Court

Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, February 2002.
"Fair use" encouraged.

Another important experience I have had with you in Moot Court this semester is my coming to understand, I mean really understand, that the teacher must be a guide, and that learning will take place as it will, on its own. I have tried all semester to map a direction out for our Spring Performance. Somehow the "laws of higher education" seemed to demand that. That somewhere it is written, which means, of course, that it IS, that we must have our objectives clearly defined, and must not be swayed from them. Freire said that wouldn't work, and it didn't.

Finally, now, at the beginning of April, our Spring Performance is beginning to take shape on its own. Kerry wrote to say that she was going to explain to me what had happened in her life. Then she read the Verstehen letter and realized I'd understand. She sounds just like Nyree, who decided when she was in Jamaica on internship that I would understand about there not being any way for her to reach me. Then Kara wrote on Wednesday morning, or at least that's when I read it, that she had encountered the same life-world conflicts, but was back now, and wanted us to discuss at Spring Performance the inappropriateness of some of the demands of formal scheduling, given the fast track pace of today's world. Andrea seconded Kara's suggestion, when I sent it out on our listserv. And yesterday, most of you liked the idea.

I wish we had more time to plan, so that we could all get together at the same time and have a neat well laid out plan. But somehow that's exactly what we're all saying just doesn't work in our lives anymore. So we'll plan through my letters and our listserv, and find a Spring Performance that works for us.

Length of Performance: We generally hold our performances to one hour. That's worked well for fifteen years, so I'd like to stick to performance times. I'll ask for the auditorium for an hour and a half so that there will be time for our panel of Judges to share their impressions with us. And then we'll have a reception. Punch and cookies may be all we can afford, but, hey, that's not the important part.

For practice time, in presentations for a formal discourse session, I'll ask for the Conference room from to 2 to 3:45 and from 4 to 5:15. I don't think it's available at 7, but some of you are not free from classes till 7. Maybe Dr. Ryave will let us use the Sociology Conference Room.

More notes soon. I have to take my cat to meet her new grand-kitten. Now tell me I don't have conflicts in my life. love and peace, jeanne

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