Re: Please escuse my ignorance

Don Cunningham (cunningh who-is-at copper.ucs.indiana.edu)
Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:38:45 -0600

>Francoise, Delpit was criticizing people who can only validate
>something if it's explained through words. I had a similar
>situation in my department here--a student who taught in a
>business environment developed a very impressive set of
>instructional materials and a professor would not accept
>it unless she accompanied it with a 20 page paper explaining
>how she'd developed them--the materials themselves were
>insufficient. He needed written evidence of her thought
>processes before he'd accept it.
>
>Peter Smagorinsky smagor who-is-at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu
>

Peter,

Can someone be reflexive about their learning, their actions
without language?

djc

Don Cunningham
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