Dialog/Categorized list
- Thinking about the Place
- Hello — An introductory dialog about A Place to Study.
- For its own sake — V and R try to make sense of what it means to do something for its own sake.
- The place — V and R imagine A Place to Study as a place and discuss the uses of different locations in it. (Am early draft needing much evision).
- Persons, not individuals — Why don't we speak of individuals on A Place to Study?
- Disclosing the commons — On disclosing the commons (initial notes).
- With a digital pedagogy — How a digital pedagogy will differ from one conditioned by mechanical reproduction (draft in progress),
- Motivating study
- Reasons to study — With self-formation and liberal learning we don't have set goals, we feel our reasons to study.
- Concerns to study — A feeling of concern combines "can I" with "should I".
- For its own sake — V and R try to make sense of what it means to do something for its own sake.
- Forming ourselves and our world — How can A Place to Study have an historical import?
- The self — V and R distinguish the self as active agent from the many identities people adopt.
- Participating — On how self-formation and liberal learning differ from the accumulation of impersonal knowledge (draft in progress).
- Predicaments — How do predicaments differ from problems and what's their importance on A Place to Study?
- Making study work
- Anticipation ― On a basic function of human culture (draft in progress).
- Concepts — On our use of concepts in lived experience (draft in progress).
- Curating — On the meaning of curating on A Place to Study (draft in progress).
- Toolshed — What tools for what purposes will persons working on A Place to Study want to have at hand?
- Verbs — Reflecting on how verbs work in communicating meaning (draft in progress).
- Why study historical persons? — On the value of studying the life and work of historical persons for self-formation and liberal learning (draft in progress).
- On learning liberally
- My canon — Each person life-long forms her emerging canon, uniquely her own — her judgment.
- Learn liberally — On the imperative to learn liberally.
- Study deeply — On humanistic education taking place through a prolonged encounter.
- Think formatively — Capacities and possibilities are unknowns disclosed by self-formation.
- Educate tactfully — Influence reaches the inner life through tact and nuance.
- Value sprezzatura — Making elitist traditions of liberal learning accessible to everyone. (revise)