This object is the only extra-galactic nebula which can be seen with the unaided eye. It is a faint patch of light at the eastern end of the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160,000 light years distant. A small telescope reveals narrow spindly tendrils of glowing gas which have been likened to the legs of a spider. The ‘body’ of the spider is the bright nebula seen at the centre of the photograph, while at its core is an extremely dense clump of very hot stars, until recently thought to a single, unusually massive star known as 30 Doradus. The very hot stars of 30 Dor are responsible for making the nebula visible. | ||||||||||
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HiI’m trying to see how we can do the ‘educational retreat’ in the best way for the clients. Barry says there’s heat on the client workers & self-help plans as expressed in budget contingencies. The same heat gets expressed on my efforts, as Nancy gets distracted, etc. The net effect is somewhat divisive, so I think it’s our job to construct more unity among ourselves. The key to Nancy’s thinking about retraining the system is her insight into ‘morality’ .. every other word she uses seems to be some variant of ‘ethics’, ‘ethical’, etc. The moral issue I’m organizing around is changing the social relations from TOKENIST to relations based on respect [this is what Nancy calls the ‘union recognition’ model]. Obviously that is profoundly compatible with the work of the clients to EARN that respect. But I’d like to acquaint you with the angle I’m coming at this, which is I think kind of a different wrinkle, whence I’m proposing to organize a study session for you three, plus Phil and maybe Jose and Annette depending on logistics, regarding moral psychology. Nancy is a developmental psychologist with deep convictions around morality/ethics. As fate would have it, my psych background mirrors hers, and I know things that I think she doesn’t know as well in this area of theory. In 1979-81 I worked for Norma Haan at the Institute of Human Development at UCB, as an assistant on one of her main ‘moral psychology’ experiments. Norma and I became friends, and it was due to her mentoring that I was able to return and finish up my Ph.D. in math. I found a paper on the web by an Afro-American professor at NYU Law School, on reasoning styles, which is based on Norma Haan’s critique of Kohlberg, Gilligan, and Piaget. It’s readily accessible, being written for law school students w/o having any real academic psych background. I put it on my educational retreat website [private!] that I’m developing. I would like to set up a study session with you folks, to discuss this paper and its implications for how we are going to train the system managers & stakeholders to approach the clients from the perspective of respect. Best regards Andrew | ||||||||||
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