I like to make mistakes because when i do that is really learning....as a
beginning teacher and a dyslexic i used to make spelling mistakes on the
board all the time but this became a game with students who ..if they
corrected me...got a mint. They soon learned to spell much better than i
do...and because mints cost money i eventually became better at spelling too. 

For me truth is the truth of participation in the world and i believe this
is very much the truth of design...can there be a false sketch in the same
way that there may be a false consciousness? I believe this is a incredibly
vital question in design research....Sean McNiff (1998) Art-based Research
touches on these themes of validity in art-therapy research...one crucial
thing i remember from this text is a most basic tenet of scientific
research…that there must be a correspondence between the language of
inquiry and the language of validation…which posits the project of
formulating a new research paradigm as an alignment with the parallel
journey of developing a new language within which these understanding may
be framed and conceived of as valid-meaningful etc.

Norm



At 10:52 AM 2/09/03 +1000, Keith Russell wrote:
>Dear terry
>
>without getting into existential philolsophy it is quite obvious that all
reflection is open to inauthenticity. In reflection we have at least two
authors - the author of the initial experience and the author of the
sunsequent experience (the one reflecting). There are mutiple other
possible authors - these relate to the intention of the reflection (in both
hard and soft senses of "intention").
>
>Schon points out that very few practicitioners reflect and that the
reflection process, to work, needs a primary disruption of the experience -
that is, I have been doing just fine with my work until today when a
question arose that perplexed me (to use Dewetys term).
>
>No perplexity = no possibility of authenticity - that is, the identity
(affect) of the reflecter has to be that of a  learner and not a teacher
(though there is always self-teaching involved).
>
>We have talked many years ago about fakes - these relate to this issue - I
am currently re-writing that paper for publication - I will let you know
when it appears.
>
>all the best
>
>keith
>
>
>>>> Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> 09/02/03 09:50 AM >>>
>Hello,
>
>In a converstation last night, a colleague raised the problem of false
consciousness in PhD's and professional doctorates. Its an obvious problem
in some areas of design literature and for some forms of protocol-based
research. into design activity  Does anyone have strategies for addressing
it in  doctoral study where candidates base their theory making on
relections on their own practice?
>
>Best wishes.
>
>Terry
>
>===
>Dr. Terence Love
>Curtin Research Fellow
>Dept of Design
>Curtin University
>Perth, Western Australia
>+61 (0)8 9305 7629
>[log in to unmask]
>[log in to unmask]
>===
>
[log in to unmask]
Norman Sheehan
Lecturer
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit
University of Queensland
Brisbane Old 4072 Australia