Well I have managed to re-draft the introduction

The photo was taken a couple of weeks back but it is late already and I still need to tidy before I go to bed so it seemed appropriate.

Most of the weekend I have spent getting the introduction up to scratch. I struggled at a couple of points. The first was that Laurie Green says he uses the work of Freire and Segundo when he talks about the pastoral cycle. Now I can not say that he does not but the connection between the pastoral cycle and "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" is tenuous to say the least. I am hoping that Segundo's classic has more in it. The thing is that I suspect that there is much more radical behind their thought than Laurie Green expects. That is a theology that is based on the way people who do not have specialised theological training do theology. To get at that you must first of all listen to people who do it. When people do this, they are often shocked at the things people come out with. I know I was. However when you listen harder you realise they do not work in the same theological framework that theologians do and the answers theologians give therefore are nonsense to them. If these people are to be able to talk with theologians then theologians need to learn their language, not the other way around.

I also spent a considerable time on Foucault and am pretty sure I am getting more and more familiar with his late thought although I do not stick with it. The penalty is that there is now quite a big section on my bookshelf with his work on it. I am still looking for a really neat quote when Foucault explains what technology is. I have it quoted as from him but with no reference. This is very frustrating. I have to use a reference by Rose to cover it. This is despite Foucault having a paper out called "Technology of the Self"

To add to the difficulties last night I discovered that getting a Word version out of Scrivener is not as simple as just compiling it! I have to do quite a bit of reformatting work on top of re-entering the references. I need to investigate further as some parts of Scrivener are just opaque to me. I will get there but it will take time.

Today the frustrations have been technological. My router decided to misbehave badly and as I was using Grammarly at the time this was not good news. So I installed the replacement one I have had for when this happened. It gives me faster connection but tends to disconnect more frequently. I am considering switching it off when I am not using it. I do know the installation did not work particularly well as I had to reset one variable so as to get the wireless working.

Anyway I have sent the chapter off to my supervisor with a request for a date for the next supervision. Hopefully he will spot that my diary is busy and realise that his is probably also filling up.