Telling Transitions At The Table: Re-Served Seats of Higher Learning?

Authors

Dorothy Lander, Saint Francis UniversityFollow

Abstract

This paper traces the transitions of first year students and other adults of the university as they partake in an intergenerational shared inquiry at a common table. My transformative research invites students, faculty, and staff to attend to (eat) and transform (digest) the moral and political encounters in successive becomings from their speaking positions at a common table. This dialogical partaking of words disrupts the market discourse of student as consumer and re-stories the university as a service organization where all organizational actors are consuming and being consumed. Eating together and telling transitions dissolve boundaries between service and knowledge, between students and other organizational actors, between serving and being served. To transform my writing into a service encounter, I re-present my research as the serving up of a multi-storied, multi-course meal at a common table. Bon appetit!

Keywords

qualitative research

Publication Date

3-1-2001

Creative Commons License

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DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2001.2006

Recommended APA Citation

Lander, D. (2001). Telling Transitions At The Table: Re-Served Seats of Higher Learning?. The Qualitative Report, 6(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2001.2006