Sometimes while I am reading, I am so struck by the ideas and the prose that I sheepishly begin live-tweeting. On even rarer occasions, when the text is one I can’t get out of my mind, I collect the tweets and recommend the text to you. This time it was Lalitha Vasudevan‘s “An Invitation to Unknowing.” Highly recommended.
I've decided to livetweet my reading of @elemveee's An Invitation to #Unknowing: http://t.co/EAccGagwqx … Join me! h/t @MaryAnnReilly
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
Reading @elemveee's An Invitation to #Unknowing: http://t.co/EAccGagwqx …to kick-off a weekend of think/read/writing. h/t @MaryAnnReilly
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
"to reclaim an ethos of inquiry & possibility in the daily acts of seeing, being, becoming…& storying" #Unknowing: http://t.co/EAccGagwqx
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
"At a time when there is increased hybridity in…citizenship,lang&literacy practices&…cultural identity&affiliation… 1/2 #Unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
..narrowing ways of knowing cn detrimentally impact how educators&scholars engage in intellectual inquiry&edu practice" @elemveee #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
I agree that our edu research could use some critical "inquiry into how our ways of knowing come to be established" @elemveee #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
variant ways of knowing<"a higher edu landscape weighted down w/numerous traditions,routines&seemingly entrenched commitment" #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@elemveee @MultiMartin @MaryAnnReilly I'm using the hashtag #unknowing…You cld have a stream of complimentary tweets flow while you work!
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
Fill in the blank: A "dialogic discourse is better suited to truth seeking than" _________________. #unknowing via http://t.co/QWX3rOypYp
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
An example of how to keep the critical lens on your own processes while using it to gaze at others=An Invitation to #Unknowing by @elemveee
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
communicative paradox of contemporary comp is beautifully captured by @elemvee in of #Unknowing http://t.co/EAccGagwqx #literacies #fycchat
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
a recent quandary=how 2 present non-linear argmnt in print jrnl? Taking cues via @elemveee's #Unknowing Qs->vantange points->vingettes->Qs
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
.@elemveee, I particularly enjoyed #Unknowing disclaimer that nonlinear argmnt might cause reader frustration: http://t.co/EAccGagwqx #hilar
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
Yep,still in Preface of #Unknowing,but so many gems!"everyday practices…are in a constant state of agitation btwn pluralities&singularity"
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
Q:"What might it mean to truly embark upon inquiry that is not immediately encumbered by a need for definitive conclusions?" #unknowing 1/2
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing that is the beauty of unknowing…curiosity…exploring leads to some answers & more inquiry
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
A: (actual) Inquiry. #unknowing 2/2
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting Truthfully, @elemveee and I were connected w/out knowing it some years ago through common interests via TC/Columbia.
— Mary Ann Reilly (@MaryAnnReilly) March 1, 2013
@elemveee @MaryAnnReilly ≈resonating≈
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@MaryAnnReilly @writerswriting elegantly sidestepping while I go to meeting. Look out for Y.SealeyRuiz's Forum 2013 talk re Seeing/noticing
— lmv (@elemveee) March 1, 2013
And it is in 1st paras that @elemveee's #Unknowing essay becomes a poem: Which are the floors/rebuilt/&which/are sustained by time&trauma…
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@tim_fredrick @mhall78 I found an example of nonlinear argument in print journal –> https://t.co/BDbdmbLCS9 #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing thx for sharing your thinking…this behavior contradicts the essence of teaching & learning essential 4 hir ed
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
In a list of concerns for edu in her #Unknowing article, @elemveee included incarceration. This. I commit to doing likewise from now on.
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@elemveee Truth. Told friend Wed I was changing the title of my AERA paper to "What I Cannot See&Cannot Say." Just read that in #Unknowing!
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing act of dwelling like flying over (knowing) vs. circling & landing (unknowing)@MaryAnnReilly
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing presence requires lingering, exploring, like close reading@MaryAnnReilly
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting agree! close reading with new eyes able to seek new unexplored meanings#unknowing
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing "possibilities" support the impt of unknowing. I like it!
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
@rmsutton62 You must have loved @elemveee's list of #unknowing possibilities: of knowing&being known? of finding and founding ourselves?…
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@rmsutton62 Yes, and this quote from Emily Dickinson: "The place we really want to dwell in is possibility." #unknowing cc @MaryAnnReilly
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing …pontificating, which seems to be the norm esp. In hir Ed.
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
An #unknowing Q that guides the EXCEL Academy: "How do we not merely co‐exist in the world…?" http://t.co/nwXrtkidIw
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing that is the beauty of unknowing…curiosity…exploring leads to some answers & more inquiry
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
Join @rmsutton62 & I as we live-tweet-read @elemveee's An Invitation to Unknowing by tweeting w/ #unknowing: http://t.co/EAccGagwqx
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
Beginning to wonder abt boundaries of #unknowing. How long do we dwell? After 1st round of "findings" become salient, obviously,but then…?
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@nathancphillips If you search for #unknowing, shld be able to see live-tweet&read of @elemveee's article last night: http://t.co/EAccGagwqx
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
@writerswriting @nathancphillips @elemveee This is now in my short-list of things to read soon. Thanks for sharing and sparking interest.
— Shawn White (@swpax) March 2, 2013
@elemveee really, my pleasure. it was perfect timing for me. among the rest, I've been thinking about accepted/ignored argument frameworks.
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 3, 2013
@writerswriting the others in the same issue of tcr also provide arguments and glimpses I think you'd find thought provoking and generative.
— lmv (@elemveee) March 5, 2013
How do we represent "living inquiry" in higher edu & scholarly journals? #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
"What to make of lives, lived experiences, and education for which there is no language, only feeling? A sensibility?" #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@diglitalvermann from @elemveee's #Unknowing essay: "Through what conceptions do we perceive an educated person?" http://t.co/EAccGagwqx
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
I'm also wondering how to spatialize this Q abt #unknowing. Calling on @nathancphillips @elemveee @MaryAnnReilly https://t.co/YvgVuoeMNN
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
reading this #unknowing essay in @EastHarlemCafe which is about to have an opening for this artist's work #apropos: pic.twitter.com/sTE0LY1PU7
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
Wondering if @elemveee's Invitation 2 #Unknowing is(or how it could be)more than epistemological stance.Beyond essay,how can it be realized?
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
"The language of feeling is central to how we see and know, and how we pay attention to or dismiss our inclinations." #unknowing 1/2
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
Makes me think of young men I've known who feel very limited in their lang for feelings,& those who write to gain the same. #unknowing 2/2
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@mhall78 thinking of your work: "there emerges a growing urgency to re‐imagine education in the key of creativity" @elemveee's #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting I haven't read #unknowing but it sounds like I need to.
— Matthew Hall (@mhall78) March 4, 2013
@writerswriting @savasavasava hell i'm capable of feeling i don't belong no matter the context, no matter how myself I'm being. human norm?
— Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting @bonstewart @elemveee I rarely feel like I belong anywhere. I’m apparently a TCK, but don’t feel belonging there either.
— sava (@savasavasava) March 2, 2013
@bonstewart @writerswriting @elemveee TCK = third culture kid. problematic for me on many levels, privilege being one.
— sava (@savasavasava) March 2, 2013
@savasavasava @bonstewart @elemveee I have found TCK framing problematic as well.
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
@writerswriting context is not everything #unknowing
— Lprobus (@LProbus) March 1, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing I feel u. 1s beliefs & values influence actions & behaviors which governs a sense of belonging
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 1, 2013
But this,yes:"If we concede edu is not tethered 2 a building..or…do's&don’ts..but flourishes all around us,in unexpected ways?" #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
"Perhaps as a move away from measurement & instead toward understandings?" #unknowing="Starting w/What Is" http://t.co/BHYCS9RQDa #engchat
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 1, 2013
Considering how @elemveee's history & positioning w/in the academy allowed for her to express & advocate for #unknowing.
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
@writerswriting that seems to me like someone who needs to move to think better. Believe it's more often associated with boys?
— carl gombrich (@carlgomb) March 2, 2013
@writerswriting completely agree. When I get a good idea, even now, my first impulse is to jump up and 'walk on it'.
— carl gombrich (@carlgomb) March 2, 2013
@carlgomb &yes,physical activity is often associated w/boys,but I think there's a convo to be had re gender & socialized ways of being&body.
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
my work="range of meaning as belonging to the beings in the process of becoming across vast semiotic and communicative terrains" #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
@MarilynHerie @Jessifer & these last 3 tweets are my citation of #digped in my reading of the #unknowing article.(Not as easy as it looks.)
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
@writerswriting Yes. I love that definition can be an error.
— Dee Anne Anderson (@readwithjoy) March 2, 2013
We need journals w/ "temporal&spatial affordances…to represent layered narrative in an equally layered ways" (paraphrase) #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
@readwithjoy More on story I can get with #Unknowing "they are spaces we inhabit, in which we dwell and seek solace, find..provocation"
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
I am thinking abt @KatePahl's artifactual #literacies when reading @elemveee's description of story:"they are spaces we inhabit" #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
Yes. "Where are the spaces for wondering, for uncertainty, for #unknowing in these performances of [scholarly] self?" @elemveee
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
The scholarly life I want to lead is filled with "deep curiosity for which the answers are not scripted, expected, or presumed." #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
@writerswriting Because it is our nature which cannot be untaught. Create freedom for inquiry. Positioning. Teach writing questions.
— Lprobus (@LProbus) March 2, 2013
@writerswriting #unknowing creating a safe environment and having resiliency & perseverance. Wait time to unlearn
— Rhonda M. Sutton (@rmsutton62) March 2, 2013
"What kind of supports do teachers need to truly inquire with their students outside scope of a prefab inquiry rubric?" @elemveee #unknowing
— anna smith (@anna_phd) March 2, 2013
Vasudevan, L. (2011). “An Invitation to Unknowing.” Teachers College Record, 113(6), 1154-1174.
