10/13 What you do that can't be measured.

 What does this RESTLER chapter raise for you? How does it help you think about yourself and others? Then, spend a little time writing about what YOU do that can’t be measured.

SO I am fortunate to have the perspective of reading the book about 1.5 years ago when it first launched Spring 2024 it believe. ANd now in the process of reading again as there are key quotes and passagaes I am taking for my annotated bibliography. When I read it before I was like what why are you rubbing surfaces as a why of qualitative data? My initial interpretation was that it was an art form, a way to express the daily toil and wear/tear that goes on in doing the work that can't be measured. Now understading how data is "anything that can be quantified, transcribed or created from lived experiences" these forms of data gathering like rubbing and creating a whole new genre of qualitative data Form + jumble- or as the author puts it this way of making a study, of writing, of fractaling methods and contents, whats and hows is about. " and the 3 concepts that make up jumbling. or the initial thought behind jumble which is "not beating them at their own game, but changing the game ther terms the purpose of twhy we play, how and for what. Radical care is deceptively confrontational. I f these images are x, then we will do y. Over and over. "

The author hints at a Critical theory on page 15 of her book when it says, "Normative processes of violence are embedded in numerical evidence, in the development of demogrpahy and other quantitative approaches to population and in the ways men and women were reduced to monetary or commerical value.(Morgan 2021, p55). Reckoning with slavery: Gender, kinship, and capatalism in the early Black Atlantic. Duke University Press

I mean that's why i decided to teach is because all the things educators, youth workers do.Are things that can't be measured. In the episode of Abbot Elementary, 2 teachers go to a grandmothers' home to persuade a 2nd grade boy to attend school so he doesn't get held back. That 3 minute interaction in the tv show saved a boy from falling a grade behind and destroying his education and futher his life. What's the value of a black man's life? A wise scholar by the name of Kendrick Lamar once asked. A life saved by the invisible work done by youth workers