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I woke up on the morning of my last classes for the semester knowing I had to do something differently. At the beginning of the week, I had gone into the classroom feeling overwhelmed—and it showed. I was trying frantically to cram in everything I thought the students had to know before we parted ways at the end of the week. I was babbling, really. I simply could not find one point of focus. Reflecting on that moment of pedagogical floundering, I knew something needed to change. And so, as I inhaled deeply and greeted the morning, I began to reflect on where I’d become so lost and to imagine what I could do differently—much differently.
There is a way between voice and presence
where information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.
(Rumi, translated by Barks, with Moyne, Arberry, and Nicholson, 1995, p. 32)
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Lossie, C. (2013). Hear I Meet the Silence: The Wise Pedagogue. In: Malhotra, S., Rowe, A.C. (eds) Silence, Feminism, Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002372_10
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