Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Sunday 20 June 2010

P.C.P. Refs: re Postmodernism / Social Constructionism








    1. Taverniers, Karin (2003) The Construction of a Multiculturally Changing Self In: Riegler, A. (ed.) Radical Constructivism Paper Collection. Available: http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/papers/ EN 23 Jul 2003

      The paper first analyzes the notion of the Self throughout the history of Philosophy, Psychology, through Postmodernism. Then it demonstrates how Modernism, with its use of objective analysis, systematic knowledge and scientific language, led up to a far more subjective, changing, fragmented, and multidimensional concept of the Self. Finally it shows to cover how society and culture have changed in the past decades, and how this has had an effect on the formation of one’s Identity or one’s Self.


    1. Wilson, B. G. (1997) The Postmodern Paradigm In: C. R. Dills and A. A. Romiszowski (eds) Instructional development paradigms. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Educational Technology Publications en 04 Dec 1997

      This paper suggests that (1) postmodern perspectives about the world underlie much constructivist writing, and (2) a postmodern stance can offer positive, constructive critiques of instructional design (ID) practice.
  3. Botella, Luis Personal Construct Psychology, Constructivism, and Postmodern Thought Unpublished document at the department of Psychology, Ramon Llull University (Barcelona, Spain) 




    1. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the attempt to subsume Kelly’s theory under the notion of constructivism and, at a more superordinate level, to relate constructivism to the notion of postmodern thought.
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