Living the Questions
Deconstructing Interdisciplinary Higher Education and the Subject of Poverty Through a “Community of Truth”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12455249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Zygmunt-Fillwalk (Ball State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 214-232 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Poverty (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1087-5549 • E-ISSN: 1540-7608 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10875540902841820 |
| OpenAlex | W2088701504 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
This manuscript recounts the experience of 10 undergraduate students at a mid-sized midwestern university engaged as members of an interdisciplinary seminar examining poverty in their community. Students' writings and reflections were deconstructed within the framework of Palmer's (1997) Palmer, P. 1997. The courage to teach, Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass. [Google Scholar] "community of truth" to interpret students' understandings and uncertainties. Students' direct dialogue with individuals living in poverty afforded them insight that may have eluded them through more traditional higher education pedagogy. Periods of disequilibrium, deconstruction, rebuilding of new schema, and commitment toward social action were documented and evidenced both through students' writing and emerging community activism. I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke (1903 Rilke, M. R. 1903. Letters to a young poet, New York: W. W. Norton. M. S. Herter Norton, Trans. [Google Scholar], p. 27)
Courage · Library science · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Subject (documents · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law · Service-Learning and Community Engagement
Black and white racial identity
Savage inequalities
The undeserving poor
The War Against the Poor
Affirming diversity
Creating Interdisciplinarity
The Courage to Teach
The Ecology of Human Development
Theory and Resistance in Education
Attitudes Toward the Poor and Attributions for Poverty
Reinventing Ourselves
Experience and Education
Becoming multicultural
Implications of Selected Models of Ethnic Identity Development for Educators
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |