Finishing School and Playing a Round: Overlap Integration, and Shifting Responsibility

To mark an edge is to describe at least two conditions – a beginning references that which has just ended and a finish always another beginning. Cycles of learning are rounds, full of repetition and often overlapping: the new beginning starts before the finishing is complete. For these reasons, we find it impossible to speak of our finishing year as anything except a link in a repeating pedagogic procession – a round that allows our students to begin their next chorus in the company of the last. Our finishing is marked only by the unique position in which the student begins to understand him/herself: already at the beginning of the profession, both inside and outside the academy.

Volume Editors
Marilys R. Nepomechie & Robert Gonzalez

ISBN
0-935502-54-8