Relational Theory
Mirror Sites:
CSUDH - Habermas - UWP

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Soka University Japan, Transcend Art and Peace
Created: December 3, 2001
Latest Update: December 3, 2001
Faculty:
jeannecurran@habermas.org
Olivier at tapcourse@yahoo.com
takata@uwp.edu

So That's What You Meant?!!

Journal entry by Denise Scurlock

Copyright: Jeanne Curran, Susan R. Takata, and Denise Scurlock and Individual Authors: November 2001.
"Fair Use" encouraged.

On Monday, December 3, 2001, Denise Scurlock wrote:

Hi jeanne. it's me again. i just want to let u know i never did understand the site until i took the time out and went through the site. now i know actually what u are asking us to do. nice work, jeanne. bye.

is there any class on wednesday? 12/5 01

On Monday, December 3, 2001, jeanne responded:

YES! There is class on Wednesday! I got the art supplies this afternoon. You may work on your handmade book.

You're restoring my faith in teaching and students and alterity and postmodernism. I thought I was just being stubborn. I knew the site would work, if I could get you to give it a chance! Both you and Robert Walker did that this semester. Teaching over the Internet is really different. It means you have to become comfortable with the computer. But it gives us so much more flexibility to talk, to write, and to avoid some of the stress of the fast-paced urban demands made on so many of us today.

You can't imagine how happy I was to receive this e-mail. And how happy I am for you, Denise.

And thank you for the "nice work, jeanne", That was a great "good dog," and every "good dog" adds up. We all need them. I know, Alfie Kohn doesn't like them. But he thinks of them a little differently. For us, a "good dog" means simply that we're doing a good job. We like dogs, and cats, and other living creatures.

This was really a case of each of us needing to understand the "other" from very different background, and to trust the "other" to listen in good faith. What a nice ending for us.

love and peace, jeanne