Knowing in fragments and listening without mastery can be legitimate ways of learning

Evidence

Shifting how we think about language and how we use it necessarily alters how we know what we know. At a lecture where I might use Southern black vernacular, the particular patois of my region, or where I might use very abstract thought in conjunction with plain speech, responding to a diverse audience, I suggest that we do not necessarily need to hear and know what is stated in its entirety, that we do not need to “master” or conquer the narrative as a whole, that we may know in fragments. I suggest that we may learn from spaces of silence as well as spaces of speech, that in the patient act of listening to an other tongue we may subvert that culture of capitalist frenzy and consumption that demands all desire must be satisfied immediately, or we may disrupt that cultural imperialism that suggests one is worthy of being heard only if one speaks in standard English. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 347

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Then again, this is a genuinely paradigm-shifting claim — that comprehension-less listening is a valid pedagogical mode — rewarded by hooks’ chapter closing.
• XREF: connects to: Deep Listening practice is comprehended through doing, not abstract study — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 653; Listening to recited scripture without translation improves language acquisition — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 841; Genuine listening transforms participants without requiring agreement (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Deep Listening practice is comprehended through doing, not abstract study #expands (0.85) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 653
• Genuine listening transforms participants without requiring agreement #expands (0.80)
• Listening to recited scripture without translation improves language acquisition #exemplifies (0.78) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 841
• Listening and remembering can occur simultaneously in the present #expands (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 317
• Confessing fragmentary knowledge legitimizes a postmodern aesthetic of the fragment. #expands (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 237