One theme that has emerged

First a sort of blog housekeeping note: I just noticed that some of the formatting I had used in the previous post was lost in the post itself. Some of the terms you see in the lists didn't originally go together--e.g. "community" and "teams." As you read through those, play with the various combinations and stand-alones.

I will later post the notes we've developed from the late morning small group discussions, which don't come close to capturing the richness of the conversations going on but will, I trust, at least communicate something of their flavor; and also post summaries of our presentations. For now I will just share with everyone that one of the primary themes to emerge has been spirituality, the pervasive interest in it among learners, and our lack of language to talk about it in a progressive education context, or the many progressive education contexts. There have been references to the PE canon, whether or not we do have or should have a PE catechism, and the need for institutions to serve as seminaries for PE. We are talking about it with the language available and being attentive to the need for better language to say what we mean.

Other on-campus participants are now aware of their ability to post to the blog, so I hope you'll be seeing more from them later this afternoon and this evening. We look forward to hearing more from those of you who are away, too. Jane, thanks for your care regarding contagion, and we all hope you feel very much better soon!