Let’s assume, then, that writing a work of some kind—I’ll stop short of calling it a book—about Rhizo14 calls for a different kind of rhetoric, a rhizo-rhetoric. What would such a rhizo-rhetoric look like? That’s a great question for me, and I’m hoping that the Rhizo14 community will help articulate some answers to the question, but I still want to create some pockets of resonance and sound some …
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Loading...I think I have a bit more to say about boundaries, especially in terms of the boundaries that distinguish the academic disciplines. I’ve been arguing that the boundaries between, say, history and physics are nowhere near as rigid and as static as academic purists might insist, but neither are the boundaries between history and physics imaginary, capricious, and unnecessary as academic anarchists …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my last post, I quoted Marion Brady’s observations about the transdisciplinary nature of thought and learning, what he calls Theory R: “Theory R requires students to make connections, to perceive relationships, and to synthesize ideas. It sends students searching the far corners of their minds without regard for the artificial, arbitrary boundaries imposed by academic disciplines.”…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In his 2004 Phi Beta Kappan essay entitled Thinking Big: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Everything, self-described contrarian educator Marion Brady writes that “the main task of educating is to help students make more sense of the world, themselves, and others” (p.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The second slippery aspect of the question do we know all of Reality refers to how we conceive knowledge. If knowledge is something conscious and mostly intellectual, then I don’t think we can know all of Reality, or even much of Reality.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity (2002), Nicolescu speaks of the core human crisis that transdisciplinarity tries to address:
The unprecedented increase of knowledge in our era raises the challenging question of how to adapt our mentality to being. The challenge is enormous, because the influence of the Western-type civilization around the globe is so pervasive that its collapse would be …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...James E. Zull’s book The Art of Changing the Brain makes a very useful connection between emotions and learning. Traditional education and scholarship has worked hard to minimize emotions within the Academy, and if Zull is correct, then this is most unfortunate.…
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