‘Waiting in the chaotic place of unknowing’: articulating postmodern emergence

Abstract

It is just before dawn, that still quiet time before the little birds chirrup at first light. I luxuriate in the silence when no one will call or email or knock on the door. It is a sort of dark emptiness. I am safe in the space of my bed, a cup of tea and the warmth of the laptop on my legs. I do not yet know what I will write. The song of the little birds rises up as I begin to type, click click of the keys. Reaching into body memory, half‐formed images. Marks appear on the blank screen, grow into sentences, making meaning. I let them keep on coming until they stop then I can examine them, move them around or erase them all with a slide of the cursor and a click of the delete key.

Acknowledgements

The author would like to acknowledge the insightful comments from Bill Green and Peter Wright who read an earlier version of this Introduction.

Notes

1. ‘Bubbles on the surface: a place pedagogy of the Narran Lake’ is funded by the Australian Research Council and some discussion of this project has been published by the author in the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 30 no. 2: 149–164 and an article on place pedagogy is in press in the Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory.