tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post4770181603948951194..comments2024-02-27T10:23:30.029+01:00Comments on Conductor: A new train of thoughtSusie Malletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-40965511639380304942009-03-24T09:24:00.000+01:002009-03-24T09:24:00.000+01:00Pictures and practices1. PicturesI think that the ...Pictures and practices<BR/><BR/>1. Pictures<BR/><BR/>I think that the very first CE blog was Leticia’s Con Amor. I have always been cheered and attracted by the photographs that have opened her every posting (though I have never had the nerve to ask her whether she takes them herself!).<BR/><BR/>I wish that I had the know-how and the energy to put pictures on Conductive World. I really envy those who can brighten up grey acres of the written world. I would particularly like to include cartoons, like ‘real’ newspapers and magazines do. If I did I would soon run into copyright problems. I would also doubtless cause frissons amongst those whose taste and sense of humour are other than my own, less ’British’ perhaps.<BR/><BR/>I doubt that I would favour either froggy threesomes or winsome babies wearing large glasses. I would care about being chased over copyright but as for the other, Frankly my dear…’<BR/><BR/>2. Practices<BR/><BR/>When I began by own activities in the blogosphere, I wrote:<BR/><BR/>‘This blog is private property, the facility for comments grants open house and I shall treat visitors here as my guests, with respect. If the analogy helps, think of this blog as my front garden on the Internet. If I see litter, offensive material or other rubbish left there I shall just clear it up.’<BR/><BR/>People should be free, nay encouraged, to criticise whatever they see on the Internet, be that images or text. On my own site I have never yet felt the need to clear anything like that away. Where they have jarred I have welcomed them as objets trouves and integrated them into the design, and advanced my own understanding by doing so.<BR/><BR/>Here we have something of absolutely fundamental importance for Conductive Education as a whole. We have a genuine disagreement of opinion over conductive pedagogic practice, publicly expressed. Is this a first for Conductive Education. It certainly will be if others join in the discussion, corroborating on opinion or another, or introducing others. The joints of conductive pedagogic practice have grown arthritic over the years for lack of intellectual argument of this sort. Keep at it ladies (and gents).<BR/><BR/>For me the fundamental question here is not a question of ataxic movements, or speed of movement, or tremors, important though these be for children/adults with ataxia and their parents/cares, and for the conductors who work with them. There is a huge problem in CE, unspoken, but I can hardly believe unrecognised. How to adjudicate between two different practices/understandings? How to resolve conflicts of opinion? Should one even try to do so? <BR/><BR/>Where is the authority’? How is it decided? Where is the evidence for this or for that way of doing things? This is not a matter of ataxia or any other such specific. It runs through the system like the lettering through a stick of rock.<BR/><BR/>How do we get somewhere more technically better founded that then present system seems to offered? One can thing of expensive ways to doing this (some open-minded and basic critical evaluation of a range of present practices, leading to some basic R&D )research and development), more frequent written reports of actual conductive practice (by conductors and their clients, as well as by outsiders), discussion groups, debates, working parties around particular issues, just good old fashioned argument.<BR/><BR/>Judit asks Susie: ‘I don’t know what you mean when saying slowing movements down “with ataxic clients”. Susie please explain… ‘ Quite right, Judit. We should all be asking such questions all the time. Could you also please explain your own position on this.<BR/><BR/>That these things even need saying is a mark of something deeply worrying the state of Conductive Education.<BR/><BR/>At the moment, twenty-odd years since CE first went West (topographically, anyway) is am faced with the spectacle of two experienced conductors, trained in the same place (both under then steely gaze of Mária Hári), with apparently diametrically opposed approached to a particular problems. What questions should I and others ask in such a situation?<BR/><BR/> - are they talking about the same conditions?<BR/><BR/> - the same age-stages?<BR/><BR/> - the same tasks?<BR/><BR/> - or (as I naggingly suspect) something more fundamental?<BR/><BR/> - where in the ‘conductive literature' can I look any of this up?<BR/><BR/>Waste not want not: this response turned out rather longer than I intended (sorry!), so I’m using it, with acknowledgement on Conductive World too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-387757802045137102009-03-23T23:08:00.000+01:002009-03-23T23:08:00.000+01:00How does “Threesome at the Rosary Graveyard” fit i...How does “Threesome at the Rosary Graveyard” fit into discussing a research paper published on the Internet?<BR/><BR/>“With ataxic clients there is always the need to slow the movements down, in order to find balance and to distribute the weight to where it is needed.” <BR/>Slowing movements down with individuals whose life is affected by ataxia increases tremor. <BR/><BR/>I am not sure what are you trying to say with the title and I don’t know what you mean when saying slowing movements down “with ataxic clients”. Susie please explain… <BR/>Thank you JuditJudit Szathmáryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797953187283683107noreply@blogger.com