On 11 May 2011, at 17:15, Alon Serper wrote:
My critique was that LET follows the very traditional and positivist research in education and the social sciences of epistemology preceding ontology. I argued that this is mistaken and that ontology should precede epistemology. I also argued against that bizarre turn to 'inclusionality' and youtube from Gadamer and Ilyenkov's dialectics and auto-ethnographic texts. My present work is trying my dialectical tool on other people and as a means to resolve conflict, propositional stereotyping, alienation, exclusion and abstraction of groups and individuals, racism and colonialism and to summon a true Freireian dialogue of equal, pluralism and mutual understanding.
Alon
Hi Alon - I've read your critique and understand and share your desire to avoid the abstraction of groups and individuals. My own response is that in referring to 'LET' and 'the LET approach' you seem to have reified the ideas in your own abstraction of 'LET' and 'the LET approach'. In my understanding of living educational theories each individual expresses their own creativity in generating an explanation of their educational influence in their own learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of the social formations in which they live and work. In my view there is no such thing as 'the LET approach' or 'LET' apart from the kind of reified abstraction you wish to avoid.
Love Jack.
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