This post is coming of dialoge that has been buzzing on twitter and Facebook (and a required reading from class), which has been way more informative then I think it was intended to be and from various facets of performing arts professionals. By the way, it's great that the dialogue is there and readily available via social networking. (fist pump to Strategic Technology?)
Let's put it this way.... I have become educationally unmotivated; at some point it was bound to happen. I knew it was going to happen, I just didn't know that a course that I'm enrolled in would spar a lack of motivation. Actually to give that statement some defense, it was and has been a cataclysmic series of events that have taken place over a period of time. I am experiencing first hand what happens when an organization or entity doesn't do practical succession planning. I can't say that this is just in only one aspect of my life. It's happening in my house, in my place of worship, in my jobs, and in my education.
That's overly dramatic, but we spend so much time in our courses talking about the audience, how important they are and how we must reach out to them. We're forgetting about the organizations themselves. We're forgetting that in order to be productive we have to examine ourselves, continuously. The work we do or don't do is a direct reflection of us as individuals as well as the organization. Organization stems from the word Organize... Why is it that we do not focus on the organization of collaboration for the good of our Ccultures? our audiences? ourselves? Why is it that the very organization that is supposed to be teaching us has lost it's own audience? Tomorrow's students are future teachers. Today's students are tomorrow's teachers.
Introspective: I've become bitter and jaded, I have put in too much effort and work to be brushed aside like bangs that are in need of trimming. "We are not unteachable; we are unchallenged, unprepared and untrustworthy."
With that I am going to crochet, now.
Let's put it this way.... I have become educationally unmotivated; at some point it was bound to happen. I knew it was going to happen, I just didn't know that a course that I'm enrolled in would spar a lack of motivation. Actually to give that statement some defense, it was and has been a cataclysmic series of events that have taken place over a period of time. I am experiencing first hand what happens when an organization or entity doesn't do practical succession planning. I can't say that this is just in only one aspect of my life. It's happening in my house, in my place of worship, in my jobs, and in my education.
That's overly dramatic, but we spend so much time in our courses talking about the audience, how important they are and how we must reach out to them. We're forgetting about the organizations themselves. We're forgetting that in order to be productive we have to examine ourselves, continuously. The work we do or don't do is a direct reflection of us as individuals as well as the organization. Organization stems from the word Organize... Why is it that we do not focus on the organization of collaboration for the good of our Ccultures? our audiences? ourselves? Why is it that the very organization that is supposed to be teaching us has lost it's own audience? Tomorrow's students are future teachers. Today's students are tomorrow's teachers.
Introspective: I've become bitter and jaded, I have put in too much effort and work to be brushed aside like bangs that are in need of trimming. "We are not unteachable; we are unchallenged, unprepared and untrustworthy."
With that I am going to crochet, now.
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