week 6 dq post Vanessa Nash
The more I think about it,
does the way we formulate our future syllabus, class structures, study guides,
etc. does that constitute our own scholarly library?
Are we as PhD candidates and
future scholars, are we building our own personal library? Does the body of our
work constitute its own unique to us form of information and in essence
library.
Should we as scholars as part
of a process be mindful of everything we do from the moment we enter our PhD
program until some point in the future are we building our own library. Are we
building our own not only library but school of thought.
Most scholars prefer to work
under someone else, a prominent and or named scholar, working under their
direction. But Plato emerged after his boss was killed to form his own thoughts,
so did his begat Aristotle.
In the 21st
century; should this be made into a consideration. Should our work in the
present be considered in some small degree an aspect of our own school of
thought. Should we begin to build our own scholarly library now, and not wait until
some future date when we have written 10k more words or 50k more words.
Each paper is about 2000
words, 6 per class is about 10k words. x 20 classes is itself 200k words, not
including the Dissertation. Not including the dqs; which is about 50k more at
the bare minimum.
300,000 words is a solid
starter body of work. This body of work should not be just tossed to the side
and forgotten, this body of work needs to be worked with and updated as we
learn.
How should we in the 21st
century do that? These questions will answer how to conduct our classes, since
our body of work comes from those classes. both the ones we take and those we teach.