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    The 4Ps of Co-Consulting

    … subheading, The Promise and the Practice My colleague, Stan, and I have been working with two instructors to convert their face-to-face course to a blended course before it is fully delivered online. What makes this co-consulting distinctive in our case are the following key features: 1.    People There are two consultants in this session interacting with two clients (at times 3!) in real time.   This entails a negotiation of roles and the values, beliefs and behaviors that come with the enactment of those roles.  I am an instructional designer…

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    5 Questions …

    from Dr. Jackie Orr’s course last night. We were warned that her instructional goal may make us uncomfortable — cognitive dissonance brings about change/growth.  1. What happens to theory/thinking (the practice of thought; something we “do”) when the body is taken seriously or as central animate space? 2. How has a focus on “difference”/multiplicity troubled everything in contemporary theory? (how has decentralization of western civilization affected contemp theory, from philosophy to feminist theory…) 3. Where does the renewed attention to marginalized histories and popular memories lead us when trying to…