Øystein (6 1/2 yrs) had made this drawing at school. At home he told his mother, and she took down from his dictation: "At school we have been studying birds. The first bird is standing on the feeder, the second one is standing under it. The third bird is about to land on the feeder. The birds have the birdboxes that they can have their children."
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is for me a story about the birdbox metaphor. Could very well be that the birds in the
story helped me to see it, and I am happy they were flapping their conveying wings.
However, if Øystein came home with a different drawing and told his mother they had been
studying fishes, or they had made studies on logged cabins, it would still be about the
birdbox metaphor. Mother's listening ear (and her writing down) is the "birdbox". The active listening, the paying sincere attention to the story, the open involving questions that might follow, - this is the pedagogic tact carried out in its fragile and patient way, and this is a basic attitude for an advisor. So, that's why when I see a birdbox, or when I am myself hanging up one - I am reminded on that I myself should constantly work on my competence in being - yes, this special sort of box. How then to be alert, how then to exercise, how then to learn, to develop, to strengthen this state of birdbox readiness, - and its lining of firm and supporting care? Your musings and comments are welcome. 27.04.2003 |
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