Re: [xmca] Aristotle's PRACTICAL philosophy as providing historical perspective

[christine schweighart <schweighartgate@hotmail.com>]

Dear Andy,

Thanks for being so frank, it helps ! Research proposals  which 'begin' having engineered access and manipulated various threads hide this really important observation. Not that this 'engineering '  is wrong necessarily, but it can be a  blind spot ripe for many kinds of influences , including funding and prestige, to go through the back door in the context of  agreements and  publications.   Things happen for the 'prestigious'  in ways that they might not otherwise- of course. 
I tried to 'begin' to enter academic research practice 'officially' without doing this - probably too naively, with a notion that I would find out what the  thresholds and ' advantages of belonging to a research community and its costs' were,  perhaps I rather hoped to rediscover a reaffirmation of  collaboration in academic research practice, which had seemed to be eroded in my teaching settings..... I remember thinking that if I failed to gain access to research in an educational context, it would still reveal something important to discuss about the nature of academic practice. I now think this might be one value which sits in the 'costs' - one that is not upheld as much as it might need to be- in many instances.
 Learning about  the timing of what to propose and how to align that to personal preferences and sacrifices  in morals, is as much part of the inter-generational project as writing and polishing research products ( appearing in many researcher conferences and communities). I get the feeling that the two are related (a need for frankness in relation to the process of doing and writing about research). Anyway for my part, hearing this acknowledged takes a bit of the edge out of an opaque boundary area, makes it easier to live with..
Christine.
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