tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652950132925204088.post8387760575262456342..comments2024-03-25T17:34:35.600+11:00Comments on Sarah Stewart: CCK08: Not a theory girlSarah Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480597227427423793noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652950132925204088.post-70067741345371395692008-09-29T04:29:00.000+10:002008-09-29T04:29:00.000+10:00@alaanjaThank you so much for your encouraging com...@alaanja<BR/>Thank you so much for your encouraging comments. I really appreciated your feedback which made me think that this blog is worth continuing. <BR/><BR/>Feedback does help give you a sense of where you are going and how you can improve, so I can appreciate your frustration. Have you thought about talking to your lecturer about your feelings and your work? I'll be honest, as a marker, I tend to write heaps of comments when I read an essay that needs lots of work. An essay that is nearly 'perfect' will probably get few comments from me - I just enjoy being able to sit back and read without having to stop every few lines and write something. So the fact you got no comments is probably a huge compliment.<BR/><BR/>I would certainly submit your essay for publication if people are encouraging you to do that - you'll get plenty of feedback from that process. <BR/><BR/>rlubensky: That's a real shame about your experience. I have had that same experience with a person I respect hugely. It has happened a lot of times. But things have got to the point now where I don't say anything more than I have to to her, which has ended any chance of meaningful discussion and collaboration, which I think is a real shame.Sarah Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00480597227427423793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652950132925204088.post-60420634479046277312008-09-28T13:16:00.000+10:002008-09-28T13:16:00.000+10:00Thanks for the mention! Like you, I'm just trying ...Thanks for the mention! Like you, I'm just trying to make sense of it all. <BR/><BR/>You should know that when I recently left a comment on Stephen's "Half an Hour" blog, he came down on me like a tonne of bricks! The risk is always that something more or different is mistakenly read into comments, leading to misunderstanding. It's good when we can connect in our understanding, as you have kindly shown. It is even better when we can talk about it when we don't! <BR/><BR/>All the best,rlubenskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11518962181442701634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652950132925204088.post-72529981141882579012008-09-28T12:10:00.000+10:002008-09-28T12:10:00.000+10:00Hello... I stumbled across this blog because a fri...Hello... <BR/>I stumbled across this blog because a friend of mine went to one of your workshops, I think, at uni Otago.. <BR/>I'm a student midwife from Melbourne, Australia, and have been reading your blog with interest for a while. <BR/>I think you have just outlined how I learn. Connectivism - what a fantastic theory of learning! I have always struggled, since primary school, with structured learning and outcomes and timelines and has definitely been something to endure, I have found mostly it's killed my natural insatiable curiousity and endless desire to learn. <BR/><BR/>I know I am very capable intellectually and in terms of research, but this semester I have really struggled to get any work done at all. But now I realise that I have been learning so much, and learning chaotically. We have follow through journeys as part of our course where we follow women in the community experiencing the pregnancy continuum. We learn so much - I have been doing research that women have requested and learning about it myself, learning about clinical scenarios as they arise when I have been lucky enough to attend homebirths. I learnt about haemorrhage management and really solidified my understanding of PPH by attending a homebirth where the woman haemorrhaged.. there was no panic, there was just professional management, that included the woman eating some placenta. It was so different to learning at uni or even learning at institutions on placement, where the student falls into the background and might get a word in about it later with the clinical educator. <BR/>I'm studying a subject this semster called women's health, a sociopolitical context, and I really have not done much. But for the last two years of being a student midwife, the sociopolitical context of women's health has been my life.. I read Kitzinger for enjoyment, Donley, Robbie Davis-Floyd and am endlessly passionate about it.. I've also been involved in campaigns to achieve maternity reform in Australia, which has involved lots of networking and learning way beyond the scope of the course. So despite learning so much in the last six months, I'm about to fail or get a very mediocre mark for this subject.. not sure what I'm going to do about it, hmm. I've always found structured learning so restrictive, but will happily seek out and read theses for fun, and will talk for hours with pregnant women about their lived experience, and midwives about their practises. <BR/><BR/>A very frustrating experience for me was putting a lot of effort into an essay on post natal post traumatic stress disorder, then receiving it back with full marks but no comments.. it just seemed like there was no point in writing it, I wanted to engage people in dialogue. It's here: http://burningskyfire.livejournal.com/503682.html I've since posted it around on a few message boards and people are interested in publishing it in various birth magazines, which is fantastic, but I was so disappointed that there was not a single comment on it. <BR/><BR/>Anyway thanks for your inspiring blog, it's encouraged a lot of learning and reflection for me.jacintahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08369120135309313410noreply@blogger.com