Terms we'll need:

1. Intertextuality:

   Intertextuality is the inclusion of other texts as supplementary material to better understand the primary text. Both "text" and "intertextuality" may refer to more than just a written text. Included are all forms of communication, including art and music, oral and behavioral, as well as written material. Traditionally, classroom discussions, teachers' comments, students' thoughts are not foot-noted in the primary text, not deemed worthy of sharing with others. We disagree with that disrespecting of the intellectual efforts of "ordinary folks." With Dear Habermas we provide the means of adding both students' and teachers' work to the primary texts, as a recognized component of textual readings.

   We invite you to join us in the intertextual materials included here as part of our workgroups on Modern Social Theory, on Statistics Imaginary, on Distributive Justice and Transforming Dominant Discourse, and on The Paradigm Shift Away from Adversarialism.

2. Postmodern Acceptance of Alterity:

   Alterity is the recognition and good faith hearing of the "Other." Teachers and students are the "Other" in this case. Dominant discourse recognizes the authority of published "textbooks" and the publications that have been granted the status of authority by

3. Sample explanation of a student’s textual reading and teacher’s response thereto on agency and social structure

Discussion Topics and Preparations

1. Policing in Northern Ireland – role of agency and structural context in preserving multiple identities – criminal justice issue
2. Relationships – Agency and social structure: Joanna Carillo’s example (http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/adf18.htm)
3. Relationships – Agency and social structure: Understanding across generations - Building Relationships – a coming of age novel’s story of talking to grandmother

(http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/lnpmp01.htm)

4. Dominant Discourse – Recognizing the constraints of dominant discourse and awareness of the Other in the interest of Transformative Discourse – trying to make definitional sense of "dominant discourse"

(http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/adf24.htm)

Preparing for the Academic Forum in Week of December 4, 2000:

1. Considering how a traditional article relates to our theoretical discussions: "Policing in Northern Island"
2. Considering how a student’s attempt to define agency and structural context plays a role in our understanding of the texts on agency and structural context – Joanna Carillo’s piece.
3. Considering how we find examples of these theoretical approaches in a best-selling novel – Melissa Bank, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
4. Considering another student’s attempt to define accurately "dominant discourse. – Kiesha Cheatham’s piece.