Well, I have started to reconnect with some of my mentees; seems that the training projects have completely taken over the "agenda", obviously. It took me also some time after Turkey to get back into the ToT-working mode; I felt I needed some distance after this very intense experience. But I suppose I am not alone on this.
And then I had some important commitments on local level:
What a feeling - sitting almost 4 hours on a throne and being driven through the town! I still have not finished my reflections on "how come that I who is not exactly a big fan of carneval ended up on this chair in this dress". But of course it does something with your ego - being highup and fotographed and waved at and smiled at - all that trainers want, no??????--)))Last but not least I was in an interesting meeting for our big project on "Learning to Learn"; discussing all around definitions, understandings, competences, etc... One of our challenging questions we tackled was: Is "Learning to Learn" the same as "Self-Directed Learning"??? What do you think? Surely the questions will sneak in one way or the other into seminar 3...
All the best
Peter
Hi Peter,
ReplyDeletelooks a little bit, like you are bound to your throne with colourfull but strong ropes. I also recognised that I got back to my roots - at least when it comes to carneval, I am back to being an active Katholic. "Praktizierender Katholik" - as I visited friends in Cologne and Cologne is the capital of the easy world-open carneval in Germany. One of their songs says: "Ich bin froh dass ich nicht evangelisch bin, denn die haben ja nichts anderes als arbeiten im Sinn, ..." - translation: "I am happy, I am not a protestant, because all they are up to is work, work, work ..." - when it comes to christian-religious believe and confession, the katholic are the ones who celebrate and take care for music, dance, sensuality, ritus and the culture of the people. What do I learn from that? Selfdirected? A biographical re-connection to my religious education? Re-framing my self-image? What is my profit in that? Did I only learn when I can write down in words what it is? When I understood conciously, form new mental concepts from it, can share my new knowledge with language?
How important is reflexion, formulating and communication?
greetings, Michael