‘Have you ever made a claim to know your own educational development and subjected the claim to public criticism? If you have, what does such a claim to educational knowledge look like?’
Jack Whitehead
This website is a ‘research in practice website.’
I think I need to learn how to use my art, to generate values-laden fantastical hermeneutics through a mathematical lens
This work is based on three research methodologies
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Jack Whitehead’s Living Educational Theory. His question ‘how do I improve what I am doing here?’•
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Franz Roh’s magical realism. Augmenting the real world by magical elements that could help us to imagine solutions to our problems.
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… and…Elliot Eisner’s question ‘what do the Arts teach?’
four imaginary worlds
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World One: where the mathematics in my environment can be represents my living values. My living mathematics.
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World Two: where, at first, the mathematics in my environment cannot be represented by my living values…. but it could!
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World Three: where, at first, my living values cannot be represented mathematically … but with some hard work this may be possible,
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World Four: Where neither present-day mathematics or my living values preside. There is still more but it is hidden....
Five imaginary cycles of learning interactions
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Cycle One: See me build it up, see me knock it down
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Cycle Two: Follow me, trust me
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Cycle Three: Into my unknown, into your unknown
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Cycle Four: Show me, show me more
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Cycle Five: Let us build it up, let us knock it down