diane says, after noting that "the discussion of push/pull [is]
dichotomous and so lacking a necessary tension," that
> What I am getting to here, in ways of parallels, and in an other
> way of responding to Jay & Mike, is the notion/activity of
> "interaction"...
>
> It seems to me that for interaction to truly be a growth-
> potentiating activity, there must be an element of manipulation,
> more than push/pull, there must be a viable change which occurs
> from the interaction - thus, for example, textbooks, whatever form
> they take, resist these kinds of transformative manipulations
> because even if students were invited to re-write the textbook
> themselves, the textbook is still foregrounded with an
> authoritative primacy;
>
> the push/pull metaphor, then, seems to foreclose space for change
> through interaction, where participation actually invents
> alternatives.
What we need here is Dewey and Bentley's concept of "transaction."
-- Russ
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