Re: Engineering culture
Dan Jesse (djesse who-is-at mcrel.org)
Thu, 19 Feb 98 11:36:18 -0700
If we are aligning our educational thinking more with anthropology than
psychology (as recommended in the cite in a recent posting), then the
culture of engineering might be a more general view than some technical
notion of how they reorganize mental schemata differently (itself a
cultural matter, and the mentalism may be superfluous anyway).
I do so much like using scholarship to disrupt the process of brainwashing
the next generation! rather than using it to find more effective ways to
teach them to think like we say we do ... maybe that for me is the
difference between the actual applications of anthropological and
sociocultural perspectives vs. cognitive psychological ones in education
and society in the last 30 years.
Well, actually, I wasn't planning to do this -- psychology is just
another discipline as is anthropology, and I want to be open to
anything that helps us understand the complexities of the urban
classroom. To align with one perspective to the exclusion of another
does not seem legitimate.
Dan