Re: [xmca] Understanding is no method but rather a form of communication

[Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>]

Peter,

I was responding to a post about Gadamer, and I replied not by giving my own opinion but by describing what someone a lot smarter than me has said to Gadamer. I'm not trying to say that highly placed theorists are more important than everyday folk; I have simply pointed out that some pretty smart people have thought about these issues, that I find what they have to say helpful, and I've tried to summarize what they have said. 

Martin




On Jul 18, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:

> Action research, at least from a teacher-research perspective, is something I've always understood to emerge from participants' inquiries into their own practice. When teachers write about their classroom inquiries, they tend to begin with the story of the question, not what Hegel or Habermas thinks. Yet in this discussion of action research, the only people given credit for thinking are what you've called "researchers" who can stand back and take in the whole, rather than those with an emic perspective on their own experiences.
> 
> Or, at least, that's how it's come across to me. I know a lot of teacher-researchers, and have worked from that perspective myself, so I've been pretty well submerged in their discourse of emic understanding and distance from other people's detached study of them.
> 
> Peter Smagorinsky 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Packer
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:53 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Understanding is no method but rather a form of communication
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> Could you spell this out a bit Peter? I'm not grasping your point. 
> 
> Martin
> 
> On Jul 18, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
> 
>> What I find surprising about this whole discussion is that each and every source invoked is a highly placed theorist. It seems a bit patronizing to me. 
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