[Late] Introduction: Jacob Kroeze

Jacob Kroeze — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:08:00 +0000

As I sit down in the computer room (and not the editing bay, mind you) of the Los Angeles Film Studies Centered where my wife, Piper, is trying to jump into the network of the “Film Industry,” I feel prodigal. I haven’t introduced myself to this wonderful blogging group’s readers, though my name has been labeled a “contributor.” And so, I hope to add a few details to the name that has been sitting to the upper write of this blog, Jacob Kroeze.

I study Spanish, though I’m beginning to see it has been an excuse to continue learning something completely new. The next new things will be philosophy of education and knowledge (of some sort) in connection with literature. While I learn new things, I have to admit that I am job searching. My degree from Dordt College will be in Spanish, Education, and their honor’s program. God willing, I’ll be teaching Spanish to high school or middle school students in the fall. God willing and I willing, I’ll still be in Los Angeles.

In scholarship, I’ve read too little. But I trudged through One hundred years of solitude by Gabriél García Marquez last year and tried to make sense of the 1960s, Post-Moderns and their Latin American novels. I kept up the theme this year with El harpa y la sombra by Alejo Carpentier. That venture turned into a study of knowledge as narrative in opposition to information. Jean-Francois Lyotard pulled me through the mess along with Foucault.

Recently, I’ve been thinking about Christian Religious Education by Thomas H. Groome and reading Faith and History, Niebuhr, and a collection of agrarian essays from Wendell Berry. I hope to contribute some connections between history, education, and the narratives that guide us in later contributions

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[Late] Introduction: Jacob Kroeze