Dear Pete and all,
I'm excited by the possibility that we could be generating a living inclusional logic for
educational enquiries and educational knowledge, as well as other living standards
of judgment. I've just produced some writing for Louise Cripps an educator and
headteacher I'm working with in Bath that seems related to an inclusional logic,
where Pete says:
"...whatever our vocabulary, I suspect we are all very much in the
same neck of the woods. What we have said to each other so far makes me
suspect that the appropriate logic we are seeking to understand might not
actually allow for the separate existence of ostensive concepts
called ‘standards of judgment’ (which we’ve spent the past three years
trying to reveal in our own ways). My grasp of the idea of an inclusional
logic suggests that, if we relate in ways that are educational, within an
inclusional gathering whose members are receptively responsive (so that we
each ‘sing with the voice of the other and know the meaning’), then the
standards of judgment should be implicit within this process. We do not
have to name them as separate entities: they are not content, but process.
It is the quality of the relationships that carries the claim to having
knowledge and of being educational. It’s not so much the ‘what’ of
standards of judgment as their ‘how’. Good-quality interaction (within the
logic of our shared humanity) includes and communicates its own standards
of judgment."
I've put the account of the enquiry on "How do I improve my educational relationship
with Louise Cripps in the creation of my living educational theory? An educational
enquiry", at:
http://www.jackwhitehead.com/jack/jwlouisetuesday.htm
You will see the inclusion of short video-clips that should stream immediately to your
brower from YouTube - some less than a minute. I'm hoping that the visual narrative
helps to communicate my living meanings of inclusionality, receptive
responsiveness (from Alan's work) and the flows of life-affirming energy with values,
as explanatory principles for explaining my educational influences in my own
learning and in the learning of others. I'm wondering if the meanings have any value
in your educational enquiries?
(Maggie - you will see the clip with Yvonne from AERA in April in Chicago and the
clip with Pete and Jackie, you, me Chris and Margarida from the celebration of
Jackie's graduation).
Love Jack.
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