[Xmca-l] Re: Article for Discussion

[Andy Blunden]

Looks like a stunning issue, Jen!
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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On 31/10/2015 2:56 PM, Larry Purss wrote:
> Jennifer and Kim,
> This months article is sure to generate conversation.
> The 2nd paragraph on page 358 caught my attention.
> "Ethnographic evidence showed the children's justifications for their
> claims fell into four categories: experience, text, authority and
> reasoning. .... over time, justification for claims based on reasoning
> increased. The nature and the content of the dialogue transformed through
> group members practising in dialogue with each other."
>
> The question this generates concerns the notion of *space* of reasons. I
> hear a transfiguration from *foundational rule based* space TO *dialogical
> space* OF reasons.
>
> However are there other possible *spaces* of reason beyond either
> foundational or dialogical *spaces* of reason. For example *situational
> spaces* or *creative spaces* OF reason.
> Using a dramatical metaphor or table metaphor could the dialogical *space
> of reasons* be a particular type of situation  as answer to foundational
> rule based reason, but the deeper truth is that we are setting the table
> for multiple fluid "spaces* of reasoning. To justify claims may be deeply
> implicated WITHIN plural notions of *spaces*.
> Not either foundational or dialogical *spaces* but expanding to multiple
> mixtures of various notions of reasons.
> This in no way questions dialogical spaces of reason [as thinking] but
> invites deeper exploration to how we orient to these multiple *spaces*
> [each of which offers justifications.]
>
> To describe justification as re- semblance to a board game focuses
> attention on the RULES of the game. THIS is a norm based image of
> reasoning justifying moving *points* on the board as preconceived
> grid. Situational *spaces* of reason are more creative *spaces* of
> justification that are also historically implicated but more open to
> novelty.
> The question of justification is complicated and the relation of the 4
> types of justification far more entangled than reason [foundational or
> dialogical] overcoming the other 3 types assumes.
>
> The orientation moving away from foundational spaces of reason to
> dialogical spaces of reason is a profound transfiguration. It opens the
> space of reason to creative novelty. It is possible to continue going
> deeper to explore the profound depth of situations as *spaces* of reason.
>
> This months journal is moving across traditions and authorities and
> experiences. The concept of *situational* spaces is the Pragmatic
> tradition. Philosophical hermeneutics uses the concept *spaces of play*.
> Are concepts merely *resources* or do they exhibit other characteristics?.
> Dewey explored two notions of "have"
> A possessive "have" and a relational "have" [We have a friend]. We cannot
> possess *spaces* These *third* spaces have us and we *undergo* experiences
> WITHIN these spaces.
>
> The *space* of reasons also has this quality of being more than "resources"
> to use in our practices of justification. Reasons are more than tools of
> self management and self discipline. They are also *spaces* which have us.
>
> Reason is being re-thought and re-worked and will need multiple *settings*
> to stage this activity. The space of reasons as dialogical is one
> particular and valid and true space of justification. It is not the only
> space.
> Generating notions of *situations* and *spaces of play* and *zones* are
> speaking this multi-verse being acted out as dramas.
>
> The after school setting created a particular situation opening up a
> particular stage like *space* for generating particular types of
> justification. It was a *third* space in which the dialogical comes to the
> foreground. Ground is a fluid concept as is the concept of *concrete*
> experience. Creative worlds emerge or unfold within these *spaces* but they
> are not fundamentally grounded or permanently rule based. These worlds are
> foregrounded and backgrounded within particular situations [spaces of play]
> but they are primarily unknown on their way to be/coming known without end.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer <
> j.vadeboncoeur@ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>> Dear XMCAers,
>>
>> The special issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity on Engaged Philosophical
>> Inquiry is up and running.
>>
>> http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/current
>>
>> Kim Skinner, author of Acts of thinking: At school but not during school,
>> has graciously agreed to make herself available for dialogue about her
>> article on XMCA.
>>
>> If you have a moment to access and review the article, perhaps we can
>> begin discussion early or mid next week?
>>
>> Best to all, jen
>>
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