Re: [xmca] Peter Smagorinsky on concepts

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Christine Schweighart wrote:
> Perhaps you might expand 'book' or 'formal instruction' to include
> 'action-research' [ as articulation of concept development which
> engendered  {valued/ acccomodated in collective}improvement of 'form of
> living'] as a moment?? as distinct from personal sense, with some
> plausibility as social 'meaning' though maybe not 'book' or 'formal
> instruction' - - as 'where do these come from?' is the question that
> springs out - how does academic knowledge transform etc.
>  Christine.
Christine, I think it would surely only confuse things to include 
"action research" as an expansion of what is surely a well-known concept 
of "book learning" and/or "formal instruction." An ideal typical path of 
development does not "exclude" instruction which might be informal or 
may not use books. The point of using ideal typical concepts as a way of 
approaching a complex whole is not to try to include everything, but to 
grasp the essential nature of the whole. Imagine trying to do geometry 
without straight lines and circles, because we didn't want to "exclude" 
wiggly lines.

Andy

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