Through an autobiographical lens, Anne McCrary Sullivan explores the sensory and emotional aspects of attending and their implications for teaching, learning, and research. Her poetry and stanzaic prose attempt to awaken in the reader an artistic engagement with the various meanings of attention. Her use of this genre challenges traditional approaches to representing knowledge.
learning, and research is explored through specific examples from a poet/teacher' s practice of poetry as a way of knowing and a medium for sharing knowledge.
This article offers two edited/shaped pieces of conversation between a retired marine biologist and her daughter. The first conversation takes place on a Florida mudflat, the second in a North Carolina kitchen. These conversations suggest the biologist's "intimacy with the environment of the mudflat," a lifetime of discovery and surprise in relation to that environment, and the role of aesthetic response in her motivation for scientific work. They affirm Eisner and Powell's (2002) assertion in "Art in Science?" that the work of science has a deep relation with aesthetic response.Time: Low tide. A Saturday in May 1998. Place: On the mudflat at the end of 14th Street, St. Petersburg, Florida.My mother, who lives on the coast of North Carolina, is a retired marine biologist, an expert in estuarine invertebrates. This is the first time she has been on a mudflat since her stroke, her quadruple bypass, her surgeries for carpel tunnel, and the reconstructions of her knees. Her mobility is impaired and her balance is not trustworthy. She walks onto the mud with a cane. I come beside her with a shovel and a shallow plastic pan. I have a tape recorder in my pocket. She is eager. We are both eager. At the point where we enter this segment of our mudflat conversation, I have picked up a small mollusk. I ask her what it is.
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