Identities in events Identities in events places/transitions places/transitions Identities in events Identities in events places/transitions places/transitions

SEPTEMBER 26SEPTEMBER 26

Spaces as constructedSpaces as constructed

Spaces as gendered, raced, or classed

Gendered worlds as mediated by language use

Children on playground space: practices not necessarily gendered

Teacher: tells children to group up by “boys” and “girls”

Playground space becomes gendered as a binary space

Spaces as gendered, raced, or classed

Gendered worlds as mediated by language use

Children on playground space: practices not necessarily gendered

Teacher: tells children to group up by “boys” and “girls”

Playground space becomes gendered as a binary space

Spaces in figured worlds: RomanceSpaces in figured worlds: Romance

Learning language, practices, roles related to engaging in

romance

Categories of “male” and “female” practices

Socialization by veterans on strategies and tactics

Popular culture: Need to have a relationship versus being single

Sex and the City: relationships

Learning language, practices, roles related to engaging in

romance

Categories of “male” and “female” practices

Socialization by veterans on strategies and tactics

Popular culture: Need to have a relationship versus being single

Sex and the City: relationships

socialization into a communitysocialization into a community

Participation and trajectories in “community of practice”

Peripheral, Inbound, Insider, Boundary, Outbound

Socialization by veterans into world

Figured world of romance: sorority sisters

AA: veteran members: narratives

Participation and trajectories in “community of practice”

Peripheral, Inbound, Insider, Boundary, Outbound

Socialization by veterans into world

Figured world of romance: sorority sisters

AA: veteran members: narratives

Becoming a “college student”Becoming a “college student”

Socialization: General College, University of Minnesota

Middle-class home social practices transferred to college classes

College peers supportive of studying versus distractions

Time management practices: workplace college

Socialization: General College, University of Minnesota

Middle-class home social practices transferred to college classes

College peers supportive of studying versus distractions

Time management practices: workplace college

Michael Perry: Population 456: New Auburn, WisconsinMichael Perry: Population 456: New Auburn, Wisconsin

I am happy here, but my gravitation to place has always been balanced by my

need to move. I crave a contrapuntal mix of shiftlessness and stability. In bed at

night, I can hear the trucks out on the highway. Sometimes a driver drifts across

the white line, and when the tires hit the rumble strip, the rubbery howl makes

me want to drive away in the night, fills me with the urge to go west, makes me

think the finest sort of freedom is found at sunrise in a South Dakota rest stop.

Contentment, it turns out, can be a matter of global positioning.

I am happy here, but my gravitation to place has always been balanced by my

need to move. I crave a contrapuntal mix of shiftlessness and stability. In bed at

night, I can hear the trucks out on the highway. Sometimes a driver drifts across

the white line, and when the tires hit the rumble strip, the rubbery howl makes

me want to drive away in the night, fills me with the urge to go west, makes me

think the finest sort of freedom is found at sunrise in a South Dakota rest stop.

Contentment, it turns out, can be a matter of global positioning.

Lawn art in new auburn, wi.Lawn art in new auburn, wi.

In New Auburn, as in any place, lawn art is a form of public display as

simultaneously trite and revealing as bumper stickers and nose rings. Between

the porch and the road, iconography sprouts: the bathtub Madonna, the milk-cow

windmill, giant mushrooms carved from stumps, yellow Norwegian Crossing

traffic signs--these images speak to who we are.

In New Auburn, as in any place, lawn art is a form of public display as

simultaneously trite and revealing as bumper stickers and nose rings. Between

the porch and the road, iconography sprouts: the bathtub Madonna, the milk-cow

windmill, giant mushrooms carved from stumps, yellow Norwegian Crossing

traffic signs--these images speak to who we are.

Pedagogies of Place: Design (Ellsworth, 2005)Pedagogies of Place: Design (Ellsworth, 2005)

“The experience of the learning self in the times and places of

knowledge in the making, which are also the times and places of the

learning self in the making.”

Places “speak to and about pedagogy indirectly through design…[they are] things in the making [that] provide us with a ‘zone of historical indetermination’ that allows room for experimentation.”

“The experience of the learning self in the times and places of

knowledge in the making, which are also the times and places of the

learning self in the making.”

Places “speak to and about pedagogy indirectly through design…[they are] things in the making [that] provide us with a ‘zone of historical indetermination’ that allows room for experimentation.”

Maya Lin: Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Maya Lin: Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial

Lin: design of placeLin: design of place

Lin: “I create places in which to think, without trying to dictate what to

think.”

Pedagogy: “must create places in which to think without already knowing what we should think.”

Place “confronts us from outside the concepts we already have, outside the subjectivities we already are.”

Lin: “I create places in which to think, without trying to dictate what to

think.”

Pedagogy: “must create places in which to think without already knowing what we should think.”

Place “confronts us from outside the concepts we already have, outside the subjectivities we already are.”

Small-town Minnesota Summer FestivalsRon Lavenda: Cornfests and Water CarnivalsSmall-town Minnesota Summer FestivalsRon Lavenda: Cornfests and Water Carnivals

Celebration of town unity/coherence

Display of expertise/resources:“Corn Days”

Queen’s Pageant

Demonstration of commitment to town values

Gender identity associated with traditional values

Assuming the role of representing the town’s idealized expectations for young people

Pleasure at witnessing commitment to conforming to these expectations

Celebration of town unity/coherence

Display of expertise/resources:“Corn Days”

Queen’s Pageant

Demonstration of commitment to town values

Gender identity associated with traditional values

Assuming the role of representing the town’s idealized expectations for young people

Pleasure at witnessing commitment to conforming to these expectations

segregated places by race and classsegregated places by race and class

Sheryll Cashin,The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining

the American Dream

Racist real estate policies: “desirable neighborhoods”: higher housing prices

Housing segregation and schooling

43 percent of Latinos and 38 percent of blacks attend schools where fewer than 10 percent of their classmates are white

Sheryll Cashin,The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining

the American Dream

Racist real estate policies: “desirable neighborhoods”: higher housing prices

Housing segregation and schooling

43 percent of Latinos and 38 percent of blacks attend schools where fewer than 10 percent of their classmates are white

18% of upper income live in only upper income neighborhoods18% of upper income live in only upper income neighborhoods

Eric Klinenberg: Living soloEric Klinenberg: Living solo

1950: 4 million living alone; 9% of households; 22% single

2012: 33 million living along; 28% of household; 50% single

Women could not live alone in the past

Social security: 80% of all widows/widowers live alone

Seniors living alone: having their own home important

Minneapolis: more than 40% of households are single

1950: 4 million living alone; 9% of households; 22% single

2012: 33 million living along; 28% of household; 50% single

Women could not live alone in the past

Social security: 80% of all widows/widowers live alone

Seniors living alone: having their own home important

Minneapolis: more than 40% of households are single

Bridges: Managing transitionsBridges: Managing transitions

Change: focus on the outcome or result of making change

Transition: focus on the letting go of the status quo past

“Transitions starts with an ending”

Change: focus on the outcome or result of making change

Transition: focus on the letting go of the status quo past

“Transitions starts with an ending”

Phases of transitionsPhases of transitions

Ending, losing, letting go

Neutral zone of in-between time of readjusting

Coming out with a new beginning

Ending, losing, letting go

Neutral zone of in-between time of readjusting

Coming out with a new beginning

Institutions in the neutral zoneInstitutions in the neutral zone

Anxiety rises and motivation falls: disorientation

No set givens; everything is in flux

Productivity declines

People are polarized, overloaded, and confused

Anxiety rises and motivation falls: disorientation

No set givens; everything is in flux

Productivity declines

People are polarized, overloaded, and confused

transition: retirementtransition: retirement

1. On the back of your large sheet, list activities that you did before retirement that you no longer engage in.

2. List activities that you now do that you didn’t engage in before retirement.

3. In the first list, put a minus next to activities that you miss doing.

4. In the second list, put a plus next to activities that you particularly enjoy.

5. Share your reflections on the plusses and minuses.

1. On the back of your large sheet, list activities that you did before retirement that you no longer engage in.

2. List activities that you now do that you didn’t engage in before retirement.

3. In the first list, put a minus next to activities that you miss doing.

4. In the second list, put a plus next to activities that you particularly enjoy.

5. Share your reflections on the plusses and minuses.

For Oct. 3: online chat: 12:30 - 2:00 For Oct. 3: online chat: 12:30 - 2:00

Recall events in your past that were turning points or transitions in your life: for example, retirement.

On the Forum Reply: write a brief summary of one event.

And/or share a description on the Chat and what this event represented a change or transition in your identity

Click on Chat, enter in posts in the bottom box, and push return to have the post appear in the large box

Note: there’s word limit for each Chat post

Recall events in your past that were turning points or transitions in your life: for example, retirement.

On the Forum Reply: write a brief summary of one event.

And/or share a description on the Chat and what this event represented a change or transition in your identity

Click on Chat, enter in posts in the bottom box, and push return to have the post appear in the large box

Note: there’s word limit for each Chat post