New Prof Argüelles Youtube Series

[jeff_lindqvist]

How a Polyglot Balances and Maintains Many Languages:


Duration: 18:10

[jeff_lindqvist]

Vision for Polyliteracy, 2024:


Duration: 56:10 (!)

[lichtrausch]

Vision for Polyliteracy, 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdMAKsnXtyk

This part really resonated with me:

"I see polyliteracy as a model for the delivery of continuous lifelong education, the beginning of a movement against the narrowness to which we are so often confined by our institutions and ourselves... so often I hear highly educated people confessing we are not that highly educated after all... I first heard this cry from inside myself when I had finished my existing educational process and was told that I should devote the rest of my life to honing my expertise in what I had just done... I felt in the marrow of my bones that I was not done, that I still knew far too little to do what I wanted to do... so this conviction launched me into the pursuit of breadth on my own, first within my field of language... is now ever more expanding into other fields... from myself and from those participating in my academy I do hear that same cry... we're not as well-rounded as we would like to be... and I hear another cry which is that we want to do something about it... well people are answering the call of polyliteracy and saying we may have had to accept the narrowing process to jump through the institutional hoops, but we were never happy about it, we regret compromising in this regard and we recognize that now is the time to become better rounded..."

[jeff_lindqvist]

Language Learning Discoveries vs. Insight:


Duration: 19:28

[jeff_lindqvist]

Advice for Aspiring Academics:


Duration: 9:39

[galaxyrocker]

It's really interesting to see him say go for it, even anticipating an academic job (abroad, possibly). It's very much the opposite of what pretty much everyone else says to do!

[jeff_lindqvist]

On Outdoor Exercise: Mental, Physical, Spiritual:


Duration: 5:10