being in a process

The Sunday discussion yesterday, focussed on refection and learning processes, but also on making connections, between modules and between learning and our practice.

When looking back at the three modules, as this course draws to an end for me,  I start to feel, like the lines between the modules start to blur and I can see the in between bits clearer and realise, that my learning happened just as much during the modules as in those spaces between. The gaps are no longer gaps, but become meaningful connections.

I feel that a big part of my learning emerged from an unexpected source of learning: I have learned just as much through the actual experience of being in a learning or research process, as through all of the information, literature and data I collected and was engaged with. Being in a "research mode" made me more attentive and open, to everything around me. 

Bolton (2014) states, Questions determine  directions,  and  what  might  be  discovered,  rather  than  destinations. The image that comes to my mind is the difference between adults and children in going some where. Adults most of the times want to get from A to B as fast as they can, the path is not important, it is just something they have to do, in order to get where they want to go. What I love about children is, that they are much more connected to the path, they look around, there is a sense of wonder, they take time to notice things. I feel the engagement with this course has allowed me to reconnect with that sense of wonder a bit.

And I am very curious of how this will all keep on developing. And I am curious to hear, how all you are doing with the last bit of this semester?