Branko - I do agree with your point about a limitation in Habermas' ideas is that they
focus on the cognitive aspects of communication. I am also connecting with
Andrew's question 'How can I communicate what I feel when my language is devoid
of emotion?' I'm wondering if visual narratives might offer us a way forward in
communicating our meanings of values/emotions in our explanations of learning in
our practitioner-researcher accounts? What I've got in mind is the visual narrative in
the section on 'The meaning of Inclusionality' at
http://www.jackwhitehead.com/monday/c12805.htm
You can get to this section quickly be scrolling down to Alan Rayner's painting on
'holding openess'.
If you have broadband (I wouldn't try this with a slower speed modem) you can
access a clip of Alan explaining his ideas. I imagine you will experience the
importance of Alan's expression of inclusional meaning in relation to both his words
and feelings.
If you access the short 45 second clip of Peter Mellett celebrating Jackie Delong's
success on the day of her graduation, in the section of the paper immediately
following on expressing and representing inclusionality, I think you will experience a
visual narrative which communicates meaning with both words and feelings.
I know that the video-clips in this kind of visual narrative requires access to fast
ethernet connections and that they can take several minutes to download, but I think
you will find the wait worthwhile........
Love Jack.
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