Hinterland of Voice

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Hinterland of Voice

• Denise Batchelor
• London South Bank University

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Definitions

• Hinterland
• the back country, the district lying behind
  the land
• along the coast.
• Student voice 3 dimensions
• a voice for knowing, or epistemological voice,
• a voice for doing, or practical voice,
• a voice for being and becoming, or ontological
  voice.

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Hinterland Student Voice Relationship
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Anthony Grayling, 200136

• you discover more about people when you learn
  about their hopes than when you count their
  achievements, for the best of what we are lies in
  what we hope to be.
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Structure

• Retrospective of past project
• Outline of 2 further projects
• Characteristics of spaces, and qualities in
  listening

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• Becoming what you want to be
• What does the process of becoming mean to you?

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Becoming who and what you want to be
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Creating spaces to listen to students values and
ideals

• Space for Voice
• Finding a Voice

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Some interpretations of the meaning of ideals

• Ideals define the essential nature of persons,
  their identity
• Ideals have a motivating or conative power
• Aspirations are a persons deepest desires they
  express the most intimate yearnings of the self,
  and they reflect most directly the values and
  indeed the very definition of the self as an
  enduring conative entity (Gewirth, 1998 23)
• Ideals are a persons answer to the question of
  what his/her highest values are, what s/he finds
  most excellent
• Ideals are navigation aids
• Ideals give direction, inspiration and incentive
  to make something special of ones life, or to
  lead a flourishing and meaningful life
• Ideals are part of a persons conception of the
  good life

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Ideals and dreams as negatives

• Ideals tempt a person to enter into a dream
  world instead of facing and dealing with
  reality.
• De Ruyter, 2003, commenting on Iris Murdochs
  The Bell.

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Ideals and dreams as positives

• David Halpin (2003) suggests that all utopias are
  driven by hope. The utopian impulse represents a
  form of positive, not negative, escapism. Halpin
  maintains that the function of utopias is to
  promote the consideration of imaginative
  alternatives. Utopias are positive imaginings
  which seek to relativise and offer a critique of
  the present by conjuring images of alternative
  futures. No matter how bad things appear, they
  can be envisaged differently and for the better.

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Qualitative Spaces
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Qualities in listening

• Worrying away at what is utterly familiar
• Sieving and filtering the well-known in order to
  know it afresh
• Silence
• Openness
• Thinking in the demanding sense
• Awareness of the withdrawn/concealed

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• University is a kind of dream kingdom.
• Many people can make their dreams in
• university.
• Engineering
  postgraduate

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• Become what you want to be is a power,
• a power to make us do something strong
• in our dreamsI think its like a power
• like a power to make us find our dream
• about the lifeSo what kinds of thing I
  must do for my dream.
• International Business postgraduate

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Ultimate and Normal Ideals

• ULTIMATE IDEALS
• Images of excellence
• that are
• Flawless
• Unqualifiedly perfect
• Unattainable
• Unrealisable

• NORMAL IDEALS
• Images of excellence
• that are
• As perfect as we can
• realistically expect to find
• Attainable
• Realisable
• Aware of the possible
• Imperfections of an
• imagined excellence

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