Intentionally activate symbols so they assist transformative learning¶

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Description¶

Following Boyd and Myers's priority of identifying symbols critical to the learning undertaken, the article recommends deliberately activating symbols in embodied creative work. As printed: "A goal of Chormmunity would be to intentionally activate symbol(s), thus letting them help in our learning", while pursuing fuller conscious awareness and integration and accepting the multiply-languaged nature of our membership in life.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Participants able to work with image, symbol and metaphor in non-verbal modalities
• A facilitative stance that accepts symbols operating pre- and suprarationally

Constraints¶

• Playing with images does not necessarily call symbols to the explicitly cognitive realm

Target Learners¶

• adult learners in transformative education

Target Learning Goals¶

• making frames of reference more inclusive, discriminating, open, and reflective

Related Strategies¶

• Addressing Biases in the Use of Language and Symbols
• Participate in the creative reconstruction of a language that foregrounds human kinship with nature, using postmodern science fiction as a generative site

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Loper, Paul. (2000). Chormmunity: Co-Creating Embodied Community. ERIC Document ED443009. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED443009