I find myself chanting the rhizomatic mantra: community is curriculum, embracing uncertainty, enforcing independence. Why? Because I don’t really have an intellectual/conceptual handle on it. I get a feel for it in use even though someone came to my website and told be that what I was doing was really constructivism. More ‘isms’ I do not need. So I do value that you specifically describe the community and the tone of it. I really believe that philosophies must be embodied, must be a proper fit, must have a feel to them. That is why so often I push back with poetry and other media–to get that feel from a different place. The theoretical discussion of rhizomatic learning leaves me very cold and oftentimes on the outside looking in–not a very rhizomatic communal feeling.

I have been trying to draw together a post that will focus on what people are doing in the community with the theory, if it can even be called that. Thanks for inspiring me to keep on with that this week.