in the context of decontextualization

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Fri, 21 May 1999 11:48:39 +0200

At 20.03 -0500 99-05-20, nate wrote:
>decontextualization
<snip>
>recontextualization

At 19.52 -0800 99-05-20, Linda Polin wrote:
>decontextualized
<snip>
>other-contextualized

When I stumbled upstairs (literally) to the spaces of educational research
just after the middle of the 1980s there was already this deconstruction of
decontextualization going on. Now that it re-surfaces on the xmca, it
strikes me: there must be a background to these contextualizing debates
where decontextualization (not stuff-in-context) was the glorified concept.
To me, from here, it just seems to be a strange and contorted way of
talking about some contexts in the negative.

Well, oh, perhaps I'm not quite as ignorant as that sounds, but....

Eva