nate_schmolze@yahoo.com writes:
>I am really looking forward to others ideas, I am more or less a cynic
>when it comes to
>objectivity. I would also be curious to how mediation and language fit
>into the discussion. I
>too have found the discussion interesting thus far.
all i would offer here is the process of translation is what shapes
whatever "passes" for knowledge - however the translation takes place,
whether in language-words-images-activity-and so on, all are projections
that translation an embodied experience into an externalized artifact,
what might be called "objectivity" in some contexts.
there is no such thing as "objectivity" of course, but there can be
shared truths - poverty exists, that reads like an objective statement of
reality
and is a material existence for more than two-thirds of the world,
but it is not "objective" so much as a truth that is partial, and shared
by some,
rejected by others.
everything is translation. the trick is to learn as many languages genres
discourses and ideologies as possible.
diane
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:point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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university of colorado, denver, school of education
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