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Created: June 6, 2001
Latest update: August 30, 2001
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Transforming Discourse Readings
Week of September 3, 2001: Week 2

Discussions for timed essay:

1. What does Fellman mean by a paradigm shift? jeanne's lecture notes for Week 1
2. Does a paradigm shift effectively transform discourse? Explain. (Shifting the model should shift the dominant discourse.)
3. Why do we think of paradigms as inevitable? As the only way to do things? (Consider the constraints of dominant discourse.)

• Readings:

  • Tuesday, September 4, 2001:
    • Introduction to Gordon Fellman's Rambo and the Dalai Lama Teaching and Review Essays online for Rambo and the Dalai Lama
    • When Dictionaries Don't Work Adversarialism, a Definition. Online.

  • Thursday, September 6, 2001:

    • Discussion Questions on Rambo and the Dalai Lama
    • Fellman's Paradigm Shift

  • Some Suggested Measures of Learning: jeannecurran@habermas.org:

    • Give an explanation in your own words of what Fellman means by a paradigm shift.
    • Explain your understanding of Erik H. Erikson's quote at the start of Chapter 3 of Rambo and the Dalai Lama: "[I]t is best to do to another what will strengthen you even as it will strengthen him [sic]---that is, what will develop his best potentials even as it develops your own." p.19. (Can you explain why Fellman put a [sic] in the quotation?)
    • Give an explanation in your own words of what Fellman means by adversarialism.
    • Answer one of the discussion questions in your own words.
    • Your own choice of measurement.