I was reading an article attempting to debunk common [mis]perceptions about study abroad, but I got sidetracked by the very first paragraph. It made me want to ask any and all willing to share: which is more interesting to you at this point in your career… conference sessions that “orient participants into the accepted language and landscape of a shared profession” or that “thoroughly rip apart the rhetoric and deconstruct a field’s founding myth”? If you had to choose, which one would you attend, and why?
Right now, I would go to the former, because I’m still learning the rules. Once I’m confident of knowing them, I’ll be more confident in bending or breaking them. (I was raised to be a grow-where-you’re-planted kind of guy.)
I’d also attend the former. Mostly for the same reasons as Trip, and partly because I tend to be pretty skeptical of anything that claims to be revolutionary.