Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e8U2rU909685; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:53:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:53:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <c5.9a8f42b.2706af1c@aol.com> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1028] Re: Teach! X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Mac - Post-GM sub 146 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1602 Lines: 26 OK, Jenny, now I've gone back to your note. Here is a big generalization, it has to do with "normal." Survivors may not recognize "normal." I know you know this, but I wanted to give an example, of course I could give you a hundred examples from my own life, I'll just give one to show how out of whack we can be sometimes. Today I was trying on winter coats. At one point, I asked something like, "Can I try this one on?" And I caught myself and thought Holy Toledo, there it is! Because I was in the store to buy, and the saleslady was there to sell, and I was asking if it was all right to try on a piece of merchandise. It was like I was asking an adult if it was all right to do something, and I was a kid, and that wasn't the situation at all. Survivors really need teachers to act "real" with them. Jenny, you cite an incident in your book that is very telling, it is about a group of students--maybe yours--who went out together to take pictures of themselves in a photo booth in a park, and what fun they had doing something that seemed so ordinary. "Ordinary" to a person who is caught in violence, is more violence. If one of your teaching goals is to integrate students into the outside world, then going to the park and taking pictures and writing about it may be part of that socialization--how "other people," "ordinary" people, live. It's a large topic, and I admire the way you have represented yourself and your ideas on the list, and opened up the conversation in a very discursive way so as many who wanted to could join in. Come back soon! Andrea
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