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  • Kids will give it a try if they don't know, Robinson argues, but somewhere in there we begin stigmatizing mistakes, sanitizing potentially fertile community spaces out of receptivity to what Paulo Freire calls "ruptura" -- the weeping, the shouting, the fear, the mistake, the revelation of a personal shame, the outburst.

    Ming Holden: The Survival Girls: Kenya, Refugee Youth, and Safe Space Ming Holden 2011

  • Kids will give it a try if they don't know, Robinson argues, but somewhere in there we begin stigmatizing mistakes, sanitizing potentially fertile community spaces out of receptivity to what Paulo Freire calls "ruptura" -- the weeping, the shouting, the fear, the mistake, the revelation of a personal shame, the outburst.

    Ming Holden: The Survival Girls: Kenya, Refugee Youth, and Safe Space Ming Holden 2011

  • Kids will give it a try if they don't know, Robinson argues, but somewhere in there we begin stigmatizing mistakes, sanitizing potentially fertile community spaces out of receptivity to what Paulo Freire calls "ruptura" -- the weeping, the shouting, the fear, the mistake, the revelation of a personal shame, the outburst.

    Ming Holden: The Survival Girls: Kenya, Refugee Youth, and Safe Space Ming Holden 2011

  • Kids will give it a try if they don't know, Robinson argues, but somewhere in there we begin stigmatizing mistakes, sanitizing potentially fertile community spaces out of receptivity to what Paulo Freire calls "ruptura" -- the weeping, the shouting, the fear, the mistake, the revelation of a personal shame, the outburst.

    Ming Holden: The Survival Girls: Kenya, Refugee Youth, and Safe Space Ming Holden 2011

  • “After the Romans had conquered the city of Carthage [ruptura monstrum], they killed the men [ruptura monstrum], sold the women and children into slavery [ruptura monstrum], pulled down the great buildings [ruptura monstrum], broke up the stones [ruptura monstrum], burned the rubble [ruptura monstrum], and salted the earth so that nothing would ever grow there again [ruptura monstrum].”

    Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

  • “After the Romans had conquered the city of Carthage [ruptura monstrum], they killed the men [ruptura monstrum], sold the women and children into slavery [ruptura monstrum], pulled down the great buildings [ruptura monstrum], broke up the stones [ruptura monstrum], burned the rubble [ruptura monstrum], and salted the earth so that nothing would ever grow there again [ruptura monstrum].”

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • To me, that moment of what Paulo Freire calls "ruptura" was part of the healthy, natural arc of the pedagogical and creative process.

    Ming Holden: On In(form)ality: Creative Writing Pedagogy in the Youtube Generation Ming Holden 2010

  • To me, that moment of what Paulo Freire calls "ruptura" was part of the healthy, natural arc of the pedagogical and creative process.

    Ming Holden: On In(form)ality: Creative Writing Pedagogy in the Youtube Generation Ming Holden 2010

  • To me, that moment of what Paulo Freire calls "ruptura" was part of the healthy, natural arc of the pedagogical and creative process.

    Ming Holden: On In(form)ality: Creative Writing Pedagogy in the Youtube Generation Ming Holden 2010

  • To me, that moment of what Paulo Freire calls "ruptura" was part of the healthy, natural arc of the pedagogical and creative process.

    Ming Holden: On In(form)ality: Creative Writing Pedagogy in the Youtube Generation Ming Holden 2010

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