Monday, November 16, 2009

Hope Tool # One

So here's the thing. I need to create a new hope kit to help me on my next leg of my journey. As many of you know, I am working to understand why we need to make hope visible in the lives of students in the classroom as part of my doctorate. Since I am in my first year of the doctorate program, I have not started my research per se. However, I have been doing lots of writing, conversing and story telling, which has led me to realize that I need new hope tools. 

The first hope tool that I am going to add to my hope kit* (I have made two in the last nine years) is the following question from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed:

"What can we do now in order to be able to do tomorrow what we are unable to do today?"

* For more information on Hope Kits check out the  Nurturing Hopeful Souls resource available at www.ualberta.ca/hope under the 'Good Reads' Section.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear Lenora: I was delighted to find your blog and learn about your work, and wanted to share my wiki site - Hopebuilding, which shares stories of achievement in locally driven international development. See: http://hopebuilding.pbworks.com.

Kind regards,
Rosemary