Where/Inciting study
Inciting study
To incite is to study as to teach is to instruction.
Through A Place to Study, we seek to prototype forms of activity through which persons can incite their study. We suspect that a question is not sufficient to incite study. Rather the inciting moves one when we recognize, in ourselves or another, a person questioning, someone wondering, seeking in uncertainty. In courses of instruction lots of pro forma questioning takes place, but the whole idea of instruction is to know the answer, to get it, not to seek it. Study starts when we recognize someone, especially ourselves, facing doubt, feeling uncertain.
What's the big deal, here. Reading groups abound. We want to proceed studying our effort to study itself. In prototyping A Place to Study we proceed with a reflexive question in mind — Does a working group within a place to study have distinctive goals, procedures, and results relative to other situations in which similar group activities take place.
- What questions should we ask of the texts we read within the context of A Place to Study?
- What will we have to say about the study of these resources that might be useful to others?
- What criteria do we draw on in making judgments about these texts? About how we should choose texts and other media for group study? How does the experience differ from effort in academic or professional settings?