Archive for March 21st, 2007

21
Mar

Evolving blog focus

   Posted by: Jeffrey    in Blogging, Learning & Teaching

I have been thinking more about my changing blog focus, and the more I read of some of the ProBloggers out there and the edubloggers, not to mention those who also discuss organizational power and research and reflective practice (and theoretical and philosophical foundations under all of it!), the more I think I may be trying to bring together interests that defy easy classification.

How postmodern. Ahh Lyotard, Foucault, and Derrida, where have you all gone?  How else can I make sense of:

  • instructional design
  • learning and teaching
  • social media
  • online community development
  • communications
  • qualitative research (especially autoethnography)
  • philosophical and theoretical foundations of
    • adult education
    • social and political philosophy
    • aesthetics
  • edublogging
  • reflective practice
  • coaching
  • research-to-practice
  • critical HRD

I wonder how or if other people sometimes feel their interests and abilities do not fit within the standard groupings that other people expect to see? Strange, how such a richness can at times seem so isolating.