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Tuesday, 5 September 06 :: freire was a constructivist

i assume so. just got through chapter 1 of "educational research" for the most part kinda dull, except for the part about constructivism vs positivism and postpositivsm. positivism is quantative research, objective reality, etc.. constructivism is not. each thing affects the other. quite facinating.

i'm only through 2 chapters of pedagogy of the oppressed, but this book speaks about how positivism and postpositivsm can be oppressive, while constructivism is not. is constructivism an epistemology for revolution?

i worry about how constructivism is not generalizeable, that it gets so stuck in all the individual relationships. while the other is more generalizeable. but luckily there is mix methods. i need to go back and reread that section.. but it will be interesting to see how my own research pans out. will i take the constructivist approach? or ? i want to make world change and i wonder how it can happen looking at indvidual case studies.. but then again how can you not look at the whole system.

world change work is a long process. i wish it weren't so, but i may just have to accept changing one heart at a time.. maybe its the whole pay it forward thing, or something exponential? if i get published does that mean that my exponentiality grows? or ? it'll be interesting.

its about the localization processes, yep. i think thats what i'll be studying next semester. not sure what that means, but.. hmm.. maybe like the BOP stuff talks about creating something for one specific population and then adapting for another. but this is research.

facinating stuff and i'm drawing all sorts of lines, but so far they all go back to freire. i hope to make time this semester to finish at least P of the Op. its definetly a seminal work, that so much other stuff is built on.. or is it built on everything else? hmm. okay, that was a stupid question.

lets move on now, shall we?

btw. keep praying for that amazing cat loving little girl (christi thomas) and her family. things kinda suck for them right now.

posted by brooke at September 5, 2006 11:46 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.