Dear Alan, Sarah, friends,
An interesting subject using metaphors to include understandable
meanings that make sense to others! Coming from the biological
standpoint at first I would look to the stemcell, one that can change
its predefined role to the circumstance of context. Coming from a more
inclusional space. The form creates the space in non space. Perhaps
living educational theory’s are forms created in the discursive gap
between thinkable and unthinkable forms of knowing.? Your excluded
middle concept Alan and the Buddhist middle way between form and
casual? The dynamics of this gap, is fought over by the gate holders of
the keys of knowledge as defined by those whom hold the keys combined
with the ability to police it. Smile. . What has been my joy in
living action research is that no one holds the keys to the knowing of
the individual self. The may seek to control its expression and its
praxis. Which is a common issue, hence I have my concerns over the
expression of world leading as a phrase of controlling or claiming to
control the knowledge of a space. World leading suggest a sense of
rightness(Whiteness) to which others should follow? Offering accounts
of best practice in a narrative of clear context rich descriptions
provides a medium for health growth ??. Is that understandable or is my
reluctance to be told I am following others rather than exploring for
myself coming through?? I am ever increasingly becoming more concerned
over the fragmentation of knowing into shards of local truths and each
shard is seen as a totality. Once a long time ago it seems I was
inspired by the openness of living action reach in its potential to
bring into wholeness forms of knowing. Closing back to the thought
around the stem cell, they usually form into the tissue cells with the
most need to complete the whole. Is biology telling us something?
Love Je Kan
Quoting "A.D.M.Rayner" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Sarah and all,
>
> Yes, I like the metaphor of living theories as living cells - or perhaps
> even 'better', living protoplasm ('cells' are part of the 'prison block'
> metaphor of life as an assembly line construction, whose general
> inapplicability is wondrously revealed by fungal hyphae and mycelium - as I
> discuss in Chapter 4 of 'Natural Inclusion').
>
> What is being revealed here is the very different character of 'pluralistic
> diversity' - as a set of discrete 'alternatives' and
> 'generative/(re)creative diversity' - as a set of complementarities emerging
> from the same source...
>
> Where is the source of a river, by the way? (hint: everywhere).
>
>
> Warmest
>
> Alan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sarah Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 27 February 2007 17:12
> Subject: Re: Research based practice
>
>
> Hi Alan and everyone,
>
> Playing creatively with ideas ...
>
> I can't carry on an egg metaphor - shells too brittle and won't merge and
> divide in creating other!
>
> 'Living theories' are cells that carry diversifying potential within them -
> they can subdivide and
> multiply AND can merge with other cells in the same aqueous humour to create
> new life forms?
>
> Great possibilities to develop this?
>
> Thanks for your response,
>
> Best,
>
> Sarah
>
Rev Je Kan Adler-Collins
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Fukuoka Prefectural University Faculty of Nursing
Tagawa City
Fukuoka Prefecture
Japan
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