Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Proposal
We are presently attempting to generate interest in establishing a research learning center in San Francisco, in order for experienced political opposition-researchers across the US to pass on their skills and knowledge to those born after the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. There currently is no place in the US doing that, and when these people retire, that's a big hole in the human rights movement. The top researchers in the country are already on board with the idea, but we haven't located a fairy godmother yet.
The primary function of the center would be in the field of communication: learning to present ideas and information in the most effective format applicable to a targeted audience. Students of the center would learn by doing projects they select and design within the framework of a proposed, reviewed, and accepted application. Genres of presentation would include exposes, occasional papers, white papers, investigative reports, intelligence estimates, and even historical fiction.
Using expert researchers as guest instructors, advisors, and distance-learning adjunct faculty, students would be mentored on how to plan a project, conduct the research, write up the results, and disseminate their analysis in varying formats for different venues. These skills would then be built on in studies, seminars, and exercises designed to examine the uses of communication devices in psychological warfare, in which students would create products based on the information acquired in their initial research project.
An intermediate step to opening a brick and mortar establishment will be to interview and record these researchers for later editing in anticipation of making the lessons they've learned available through broadcast and podcast, and would comprise the initial task of the center's digital library archive.
Serious inquiries and offers of assistance should contact Jay Taber tbarj@yahoo.com
[ We now have a discussion blog for this project. ]
The primary function of the center would be in the field of communication: learning to present ideas and information in the most effective format applicable to a targeted audience. Students of the center would learn by doing projects they select and design within the framework of a proposed, reviewed, and accepted application. Genres of presentation would include exposes, occasional papers, white papers, investigative reports, intelligence estimates, and even historical fiction.
Using expert researchers as guest instructors, advisors, and distance-learning adjunct faculty, students would be mentored on how to plan a project, conduct the research, write up the results, and disseminate their analysis in varying formats for different venues. These skills would then be built on in studies, seminars, and exercises designed to examine the uses of communication devices in psychological warfare, in which students would create products based on the information acquired in their initial research project.
An intermediate step to opening a brick and mortar establishment will be to interview and record these researchers for later editing in anticipation of making the lessons they've learned available through broadcast and podcast, and would comprise the initial task of the center's digital library archive.
Serious inquiries and offers of assistance should contact Jay Taber tbarj@yahoo.com
[ We now have a discussion blog for this project. ]
