Eating in class

Week 9. Qualitative research with Non-traditional Data.

My teacher said that she's gonna bring us some cakes this week. I was happy to see people having a small colorful cup cake on their table in the classroom.  While the lecture started, I put my cup cake, a piece of bread(?) and a piece of white chocolate on the table then waited for a good timing EATING it!

Today's topic is Taste and Smell.

Several minutes later, the teacher said: "Okay, now let's start with the cup cake. Try it and write down some description of the taste!"

....Okay. so that's what the cake for!! I finally realized.xD

[第九週 質性研究與非傳統data]

老師之前就說這週要帶點心來給大家吃噢耶，我覺得很歡樂。
今天走進教室就看見大家排隊在領取粉紅色小蛋糕，還有一塊麵包，一片巧克力，跟一包不明物體。拿完之後就放在桌上開始上課，想說慢慢吃！（有人已經吃掉了= =||）結果上了一陣子，老師就叫大家吃蛋糕，然後想一些詞語描述蛋糕。

我才驚覺，原來不是歡快的同樂會，是因為這週主題是taste and smell。(汗)
老師當場叫大家吃東西，吃完就開始發表對味覺跟嗅覺的感官描述。還有那一小包不明物體，本來以為是紙巾之類的，其實是香水試用包。搞到今天一整天身體都是奇妙香水味，後來再去office hour見其他老師有點尷尬XD|||

還以為是歡樂的吃餅乾上課呢（忽然想起大學時中文系一位老師QQ）

知識的政治性 The politics of Knowledge.

昨天跟同學討論到一篇文章的結尾說能夠改變現狀的方式就是教育，我說我也這麼認為，可是，想到自己認為應該把在第一世界國家學到的知識拿到第三世界國家進行教育，怎麼想都非常有問題。同學點頭，說但大部分的理論都來自第一世界國家，我們要怎麼擺脫掉呢，即使產出了第三世界的理論，也可能會因為不入流、非主流而不見用。


知識從來都不乏其政治性。


talked about an article with one of my peers. it ended with 'the solution of changing the situation is to educate people' (in third-world countries, specifically) .  I said that I agreed, but it's always problematic when thinking about 'taking what I've learned in the first world to educate my people in the third world'.  It's always problematic.  But, what else can we do?  My friend said, 'True, but most knowledge and theories came from the first world countries. Even if we generate our own knowledge of the third world, will it be used, or accepted in the dominant academia?'

what to say? The politics of Knowledge.