http://cac.ophony.org/2008/11/24/audience-or-interlocutors/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:36:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://cac.ophony.org/2008/11/24/audience-or-interlocutors/comment-page-1/#comment-37374 Szidonia Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:38:06 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/?p=970#comment-37374 I think Olga captured beautifully the idea of conversation as mutual engagement and enrichment. This is something I would also like to promote more and more through my own teaching. The German philosopher, Hans Georg Gadamer talks about conversation as life-praxis in his most important book,Truth and Method. He describes the act of reading as a conversation with the book, in terms of horizons of expectations: the reader develops horizons of expectations, which will always be altered in some way through the reading process. The idea is that as you read along, you alter your expectations for the book, you alter your views on the world, and, in a way, you change your self. Here it goes: reading as a life-changing experience! :)And I think teaching is just such a life-changing experience as well. Has always been for me, and I agree with Mr. Bernard L. Schwartz, who charmed and impressed me too last week: it takes a lot of listening and a deep sense of shared humanity. I think Olga captured beautifully the idea of conversation as mutual engagement and enrichment. This is something I would also like to promote more and more through my own teaching. The German philosopher, Hans Georg Gadamer talks about conversation as life-praxis in his most important book,Truth and Method. He describes the act of reading as a conversation with the book, in terms of horizons of expectations: the reader develops horizons of expectations, which will always be altered in some way through the reading process. The idea is that as you read along, you alter your expectations for the book, you alter your views on the world, and, in a way, you change your self. Here it goes: reading as a life-changing experience! And I think teaching is just such a life-changing experience as well. Has always been for me, and I agree with Mr. Bernard L. Schwartz, who charmed and impressed me too last week: it takes a lot of listening and a deep sense of shared humanity.

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