Hi,
In response to laurence and Vicki's comments:
>
>You wrote: I think we all like to socialise at least some of
>the time with people who we 'connect' with at an intellectual level.
>
>Maybe what we're doing is not connecting at an intellectual level but
>connecting through our shared experiences, in this way the connections we
>make are not about how we cognitively operate but how we are going about
>interacting with other people. The context of situation and the topics of
>conversation will all have a bearing of how comfortable that is.
>
I think also that the 'comfortableness' may be related to other factors
such as gender. For example, I don't feel too comfortable about separating
the experiential-emotive and the intellectual-cognitive, because that is
what we are conditioned to do. I watched two TV programmes on consecutive
nights recently which both involved issues of whether 'murder' was
justifiable or not. In the both programmes the male defence lawyers (one
American, one British) had exhausted the 'reason' of the law, and because
they had to win their cases, they took the emotive line with the jury and
used their own experience. For me this was not a problem, but I guess a lot
of male lawyers watching would have been horrified. Is there no way we can
have both experiential and intellectual? If we go down the road of trying
to separate them, one always gets privileged and I know which one that is?
To ignore the experiential in disability research, for example, would take
us back to the old 'objective' empiricism that we have tried to counter and
remove a lot of the quality of research.
Best wishes
Mairian
Mairian Corker
Senior Research Fellow in Deaf and Disability Studies
Department of Education Studies
University of Central Lancashire
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