English Committee for Dialogue and Communication
E.C.D.C. ConceptualFramework Guidelines
Target audience: E.C.D.C. Administrative Office.Objectives: Discussion, decision, and action.
1.
Assessing ECDC achievements and makingright decisions:
Since the beginning of its foundation on the 28
th
April, 2006, ECDC haswitnessed some-not to say many- changes on the level of project worksand organization. Yet
there hasn’t been approximately any basicdevelopment in our conceptions, vision, and commonunderstanding of our objectives and framework.
Yes, many workshave been performed and proved the physical existence of ourcommittee among students; however,
the obscure andincomprehensible identity of our
body
reveals the weakness of our soul and consequently exposes our project- if it deserves tobe called as such- to risk and decline.
We need to make sure allECDC members have learned common conceptual framework guidelinesby heart so that we can have a
coherent body
and deserve to be called‘committee’ or ‘organization’. To overcome this dilemma,
it’s urgent forany INTERESTED member to talk, collectively with othermembers, over all the problems we consider to be serious andpressing.
Such talk should consider figuring out
practical
and
reasonable
solutions to each problem provided that any suggestion theAdministrative Office agrees upon should be backed up with a sense of
commitment
and
responsibility
.
Any judgment, decision, or actionshouldn’t be based on vacuum. ECDC should draw on its history-documents, reports, drafts, publications-to take a right stepforward.
Archiving any action taken by ECDC, collectively or individually,is of paramount importance in rating our development, checking thepoints that need improvement, and make the right decision(s) for thephase to come.
2.
Containing differences and Building up aphilosophy of work :
Since the outset, ECDC has been communicative in nature. It hasn’thad no pre-set ideas or ideology about who specifically to address andwhat discourse to adopt. Yet, communication has taken place openly,safely, effectively, and successfully. The secret behind this will be the keyword to contain the differences around us and build up our philosophy of work. The experiences we have accumulated since the rise of this projectare enough to know what discourse to opt for among many otherdiscourses.Most of the mainstream discourses on the field seem to advocateideology, politics, revolution, fanaticism, racism, extremism,exclusivism…etc. These have proved their failure in establishing apositive rapport between themselves and their audience/students. Theright choice is therefore the one we have been practicing without beingaware; it is the one that addresses the other as a part of ourselves, not asan enemy to overpower. If you noticed, most of us feel happy expressinghis mind in English and listening to others taking their turn in lovely andrespectful manners.It’s here where the secret lies: A mutual interaction where all parts of communication negotiate and struggle to find out the points of
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