Talking About Art

My Story of Resistance:   What Happened to a Human Being?  part 1. I was a dyslexic child of the 1970’s. In Primary school I was considered a slow learner, Dr Gavin (2013) in her report states that dyslexia is a learning disability that makes it hard to learn to read and understand written language. Heresay tells that the local council ignored childhood dyslexia in the 1970’s because of cost implications, this is upheld by a more recent document stating that the city council does not, even now, employ any dyslexia support staff for school children (Moor, 2012).  I was in my own dream world, in my imagination. I had no idea what teachers were talking about most of the time, there was an incomprehensible element to each days tasks which seemed to make perfect sense to the other children, I was amazed at their abilities to so readily comprehend when I found it so baffling.  The other children seemed to 'get it', to intuitively know what was ...

The Reluctant Writer Kratos is the most resistant person in the reading group. She loves reading and all her life she has written at school, in exams, in work documents and has been excellent at it, but now she is unwilling. She has only agreed to write the diaries in honour of our long standing friendship and mutual respect.   However despite being intractable at first and not writing any entries for the first month, she has begun, and says she enjoys it and has even agreed to write the education journey. At book club 3 Kratos talked about the experience of hearing My Story of Resistance saying she was inspired to take up the pen and write her own story, her own education journey. Kratos was truculent about writing, only doing it to ‘please’ me, which is good evidence for the MPhil project but bad in that she is not doing what she wants to do. Having known Kratos for a decade I can tell you that she never ever does anything she doesn’t want to do. Possibly on so...