Communicative Silence
I have encountered a lot of different, strange, harmful, and interesting things centred around communication this week and it has had me thinking about how much communication is used in pedagogical spaces. Or thinking about it another way, what happens when communication breaks down. I've been thinking a lot about the whole who communicates first thing this week. You know like you see on social media so many posts about, hey if you didn't text your friends would they text you first. You know those posts - those are clearly the kind of posts that our students interact with on a regular basis too. Because as much as posts like that are sad, in that they reinforce the heavy lifting that happens in the work of relationship supporting and maintenance, it also draws attention to the fact that often that work within community or relationships is not equal. There is someone who will be the person to reach out first and that if you stop texting and trying to maintain that relationship c...