tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16319786558658405752024-03-20T14:35:36.610-07:00Teaching and Learning: Embedding Functional SkillsThis blog has been set up to explore good practice of embedding Functional Skills into the core curriculum. As a teacher of Employability and Personal Development together with Literacy I am keen to build up a bank of resources. We all work extremely hard. By sharing our knowledge and expertise we will hopefully be able to reduce the daily pressure of performing miracles in the classroom and administrative proficiency in the office.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423445780419606326noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631978655865840575.post-90457409013510682482009-11-09T11:49:00.000-08:002009-11-09T11:54:20.034-08:00VLE's: Creating Collaboration<div><br /></div><div>When creating an on-line learning event Hoffman (2003) suggests that it should be a collaborative experience for the learner. She explains that there are three levels of collaboration: cooperation, coordination and true collaboration. To learn how to make your learning event a truly interactive experience click on to the following link - <a href="http://www.webjunction.org/e-learning/articles/content/443562">WebJunction</a></div>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423445780419606326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631978655865840575.post-75954578487729012322009-11-07T04:37:00.000-08:002009-11-07T04:42:12.584-08:00How to use moodleNew to Moodle? Responsible for providing on-line training activities for your students? Use the following link to access <a href="http://www.moodletutorials.org/">Moodle Tutorials</a>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423445780419606326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631978655865840575.post-45874235895957931752009-10-25T01:24:00.000-07:002009-10-25T01:31:59.305-07:00Skills for Life ResourcesThose lovely Skills for Life resources are no longer available however, downloadable copies are. For an online catalogue click on the following link: <a href="http://sflip.excellencegateway.org.uk/resources/skillsforliferesources.aspx">catalogue of titles</a>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423445780419606326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631978655865840575.post-12267281913565874052009-10-25T00:52:00.000-07:002009-10-25T00:58:07.707-07:00Key skills: Standards and guidance 2004For information about the new standards that will replace the current specifications from September 2004 click on the following link <a href="http://www.qcda.gov.uk/6455.aspx">QCDA</a>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423445780419606326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631978655865840575.post-84189473513678583212009-10-25T00:46:00.000-07:002009-10-25T00:49:12.986-07:00Functional Skills StandardsTo Obtain a downloadable copy of the 2007 Functional skills standards click on to the following link <a href="http://www.ofqual.gov.uk/94.aspx">QCA</a>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423445780419606326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631978655865840575.post-73262965713583528302009-05-24T10:50:00.000-07:002009-05-28T15:25:44.913-07:00Conversation as Experiential Learning with NEET Learners<div>A PowerPoint presentation relating to this post can be viewed on<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sarahhorsley/experiential-learning-reflection"> Slide-Share.</a></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20qnhdzjVEzA8FxaeR96TkXUe6VAKbNP_xfyUIpXBxavM0ez0JtFo8TXpvgRKxQKCZWNXgc1QpoHxuQUv7OKytMYVBsxAQVHLuO_ried7rYwouTWj7AK4fOkN4vKcTs728LgU-t2MmfI/s1600-h/Kolb+Exercise01.jpg"><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20qnhdzjVEzA8FxaeR96TkXUe6VAKbNP_xfyUIpXBxavM0ez0JtFo8TXpvgRKxQKCZWNXgc1QpoHxuQUv7OKytMYVBsxAQVHLuO_ried7rYwouTWj7AK4fOkN4vKcTs728LgU-t2MmfI/s400/Kolb+Exercise01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339718683752198242" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Warm-up exercise</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Look at the diagram. Can you place the text in the correct order and can you name the theorist?<br /></span></div><div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Forming abstract concepts</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Concrete experience</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Testing in new situations</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Observation and reflection</span></li></ul></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifLS5zGEjr_XsN0PMYzbNaEbGJk5K9MU_Cq_dKisZHNPxGYnrPgBMvALhzGq4DZF05Dr4tM0hAQFj0mvs_pS1Oh2wHJI3jiGAGXSvapSA_XHSrMWJ3d1ATRlcUoeJOckcsjBMNlPMA29g/s1600-h/handshake.jpg"></a></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The following is taken from Chapter Four: Conversation as Experiential Learning </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">in</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Baker, A., Jensen, P.J. and Kolb, D.A. (2002) Chapter Four.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Conversational Learning An Experiential Approach to Knowledge Creation.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Additional pictures and diagrams have been added to aid understand for both myself and the reader. However it is recommended that the reader also uses the link provided for further reading. To access web location of any image used via a link can be found at the end of this post. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">What is Conversation as Experiential Learning?</span></span></span></div></div><div><div><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">v</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Grounded in the theory of experiential learning (ELT)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">v</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Theoretical framework for conversational learning</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">v</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A process whereby learners construct meaning and transform experiences into knowledge through conversation.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">v</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) provides the holistic model of the learning process.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">"...the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience" Kolb (1984:p.41)<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Intellectual origins of Conversation as Experiential Learning</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJlFirCjej2TedE-yWGBxguHDJlNH9OvB1CB1SLDDD2euvmblaZFaBt239zBMs23Hz3KGrgNnpArE_eobJkWte5RIrHwCaDjn65p2lBnYRg6CgVokqhBkB2-bGWKZpOhVg3967OOE5V8/s1600-h/sc00c24427.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJlFirCjej2TedE-yWGBxguHDJlNH9OvB1CB1SLDDD2euvmblaZFaBt239zBMs23Hz3KGrgNnpArE_eobJkWte5RIrHwCaDjn65p2lBnYRg6CgVokqhBkB2-bGWKZpOhVg3967OOE5V8/s400/sc00c24427.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339470685219140194" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Dialectic related modes of ELT</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVEtM6H0ftNXXg0MCqbFI7I5p-4rC3QO5svcUEWi0SiVCVlYzJg7qE_iDGPLRUyN3Eh_jVi6aaMBYkDcuJCdZIMqH2SYWw2iqo0I32xfkmaLhACk7tP-5cUezJXK1pD1phkdaTVKOBtk/s1600-h/sc00c3138c.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVEtM6H0ftNXXg0MCqbFI7I5p-4rC3QO5svcUEWi0SiVCVlYzJg7qE_iDGPLRUyN3Eh_jVi6aaMBYkDcuJCdZIMqH2SYWw2iqo0I32xfkmaLhACk7tP-5cUezJXK1pD1phkdaTVKOBtk/s400/sc00c3138c.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339701380402053346" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 252px; " /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">grasping experience</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> new information is perceived in either of the following ways:<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifLS5zGEjr_XsN0PMYzbNaEbGJk5K9MU_Cq_dKisZHNPxGYnrPgBMvALhzGq4DZF05Dr4tM0hAQFj0mvs_pS1Oh2wHJI3jiGAGXSvapSA_XHSrMWJ3d1ATRlcUoeJOckcsjBMNlPMA29g/s1600-h/handshake.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifLS5zGEjr_XsN0PMYzbNaEbGJk5K9MU_Cq_dKisZHNPxGYnrPgBMvALhzGq4DZF05Dr4tM0hAQFj0mvs_pS1Oh2wHJI3jiGAGXSvapSA_XHSrMWJ3d1ATRlcUoeJOckcsjBMNlPMA29g/s200/handshake.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339712042445352098" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 164px; " /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Experiencing the concrete</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">, tangible, felt qualities of the work, relying on senses and immersing oneself in concrete reality or;<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Taking hold of new information through symbolic representation or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">abstract conceptualization</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">, thinking about, analyzing, or systematically planning, rather than using sensation as a guide</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">transforming or processing experience</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> new information is received through:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEdZyILiN_SYDJu-3a68qDlLZ6-imdcHByA8tk81wPi9ggFpvEgeTsP8O2kwiytnElGeWsx4CUdDgXBPshBdO1N6KXwKjbvmRc35wf-PAj4AZjTc8sT-qikXx9ytADAP_eI1Zvq1QVjk8/s1600-h/transformers-soundwave.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEdZyILiN_SYDJu-3a68qDlLZ6-imdcHByA8tk81wPi9ggFpvEgeTsP8O2kwiytnElGeWsx4CUdDgXBPshBdO1N6KXwKjbvmRc35wf-PAj4AZjTc8sT-qikXx9ytADAP_eI1Zvq1QVjk8/s200/transformers-soundwave.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339715283094168546" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 156px; " /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Carefully watching others involved in the experience and reflect on what happens or;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Jumping right in and immediately start doing things</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Experiential Learning Theory:</span></span></div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Four-stage experiential learning cycle</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">learners resolve the tension of two dialectically opposite learning dimensions in a cyclical fashion</span></li></ul></div><div></div><div></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">1. Cycle begins with immediate or concrete experiences<br />2. CE's serve as the basis for observations and reflections</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">3. Reflection are assimilated into abstract concepts</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">4. AC's prove the basis from which new implications for action can be drawn</span></div></blockquote><div></div><div></div><div><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">These implications can be actively tested and serve as guides in creating new experiences for the next cycle<br /></span></li></ul></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Conversation as Experiential Learning:</span></span></div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Experiential learning process occurs in conversation</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Same cyclical process experience, reflection, abstracting and acting</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Meaning and understanding constructed from experiences in conversation</span></li></ul></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The theoretical framework is based on five process dialectics, where participants engage in conversation by embracing the differences across these dialectics, the boundaries of these dialectics open a conversation space.</span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">First Process:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> the dialectic of the knowing dimensions of experiential learning theory - apprehension and comprehension.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Second Process:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> the dialectic of praxis that incorporates tech integration of intention/reflection and of extension /action is explored</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Third Process:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> the dialectical tension between the epistemological/discursive process (theory of existence/repeatedly applying function to itself)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Fourth Process:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> dialectic of individuality and relationality that contrasts conversation as inside-out and outside-in</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Fifth Process:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> dialectic of status and solidarity describes the ranking and linking dynamics that shape the social realm of conversation</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86H455kjzsgZsEuX1_wnQeixD7jKH9M5TGDiiQPrtJLioC5TFahjJABvcnNu9P_qCIDy54UIOPEMD1jujs0d1MquJ7tx9wkpQvWqU3hZTMOyDXJz33VX9jJgoUB_awHimAcIHCYj3zr8/s1600-h/conversations.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86H455kjzsgZsEuX1_wnQeixD7jKH9M5TGDiiQPrtJLioC5TFahjJABvcnNu9P_qCIDy54UIOPEMD1jujs0d1MquJ7tx9wkpQvWqU3hZTMOyDXJz33VX9jJgoUB_awHimAcIHCYj3zr8/s200/conversations.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339727981016969602" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 199px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; ">A closer look at the five dialectical processes</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">A conversational space is opened within which opposing ideas can be explored, resolved or embraced though conversations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">The conversational space can be equated to the autopoietic (self-making/maintaining system) process of a living system<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Self-organized, autonomous system by specifying its laws and determining what is proper to its existence<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Governed by two primary tasks<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">To regenerate and realize the network of processes that enables its existence through their continuous interactions and transformations (mind mapping through conversations)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">To specify the boundary of its realization as a concrete unity in the space they exist (understanding with definition)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">These are not separate sequential processes, but two different dimensions of the same phenomenon.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">The five dialectics serves as a network of dynamic processes that opens up a conversational space<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style=" mso-bidi-;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Apprehension and Comprehen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">sion: concrete knowing and abstract knowing</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Concrete knowing is called apprehension – an immediate, feeling-oriented, tacit, subjective process</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Abstract knowing is called comprehension – a linguistic, conceptual, interpretative process </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Learning based o the complex inter-relationship of these two knowing processes.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Knowledge of acquaintance based on direct perception (apprehension)</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Knowledge about based on mediating conception (comprehension)</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Perception is solely of the hear and now</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Conception is of the like and unlike, of the future, and of the past, and of the far away</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;">Conversation is more than an exchange of concepts; it is a perceptual process as well<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Intension and extension: reflection and action</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;font-family:Georgia;">Simple</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> perception of experience alone is not sufficient for learning; something must be done with it.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Transformation alone cannot represent learning, there must be something to be transformed</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Learning is like breathing; if follows a rhythm of taking in and putting out</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Incorporating ideas and experience to find meaning </span><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Expressing that meaning in thought, speech and action</span><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> Thinking and making sense of something by attaching it to another concrete experience. The doing has to be active and fun. The experience needs to be such that the recipient of that experience will want to take it further.</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">In essence: Read it, hear it, experience it and gain better understanding by talking about it<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Epistemological Discourse and Ontological Reco</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">urse: doing and being</span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Conversational learning occurs within two distinct by interconnected temporal dimensions: linear time and cyclical time</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">The discursive process is guided by linear time</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">The recursive process follows a rhythm of cyclical time</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">The discursive process is an epistemological manifestation of individuals’ ideas and experiences that are made explicit in conversations</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Recursive proces is an ontological and subjective manifestation of the desire to return to the same ideas and experiences generated in conversations</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:17.85pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">The discursive process follows a linear time progression from pre-course, discourse to post-course</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;font-family:Georgia;">Pre</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">-course – reflecting back on what has been previously discussed and sets the structure and ground rules for conversation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Discourse – the framing and naming or aims and objectives<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Post-course – the process of sorting what to keep and what to throw away, which then becomes the pre-course for future conversations<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Individuality and Relationality: inside-out and outside-in</span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Tension between individuals</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">The balance of maintaining a sense of self while being aware of and open to the influence of others</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Combining together the stands of rational and emotive thought </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Intergrating objective and subjective knowing</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Being able to enter into dialogue with another and allowing oneselve to be carried along further by the dialogue</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> Status and Solidarity: ranking and linking</span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Requires mutual respect and understanidng toward one another</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Status refers to positional ranking in the group</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Solidarity refers to interpersonal link within a network or relationships</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-mso-no-proof:yesfont-family:Arial;">Both status and solidarity required to sustain conversation</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Without status conversation can lose direction<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Without solidarity can lose connection and relevance <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">The Conversational Learning Space</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Polar extremes:</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Can occur in many dimensions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Dialectic dominants impede conversational learning<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Dual knowledge dialectic opens conversational space<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Speaking without listening or listening without speaking is futile<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Reflection without action is just idle chatter<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Activism by itself become just action for action’s sake<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Discourse without recourse is just brute force<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Extreme individualism results in alienation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Total relatedness leads to conversations that go nowhere<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Totalitarianism crushes other voices<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Laissez faire egalitarianism produces aimless talk<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> Polar similarities:</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">As conversation progresses normative core values and structure develops<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Boundaries that define the conversational learning space are created <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">These norms determine<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">What can be said and not said<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Who has a voice and who does not have a voice<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:35.7pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">v<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">These norms create boundaries that define<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Who is in and out of the conversation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"; mso-bidi-Courier New"font-family:";"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Exclusion for those who do not know or who refuse to abide or participate by the rules<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">“From this perspective, boundaries are not con fines by ‘shape-givers’ that can provide us with healthy space to grow… boundaries are not prisons, rather, they serve an essential function to make our existence more alive and vibrant” (Wyss, 1997) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">References:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Baker, A., Jensen, P.J. and Kolb, D.A. (2002) Chapter 4.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Conversational Learning An Experiential Approach to Knowledge Creation.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books [Online] Available from: </span><a href="http://www.learningfromexperience.com/research-library/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">http://www.learningfromexperience.com/research-library/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Kolb, D.A. (1984) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> New Jersey: Prentice-Hall</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Links to images used in order of appearance:</span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.livingearthgatherings.org/images/tree_roots.gif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Tree</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://dewey.pragmatism.org/dewey.gif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">John Dewey</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://louairahal.net/Freire1.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Paulo Freire</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/index.php/Vassar_Visitors"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">William James</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/353/000117999/kurt-lewin-3-sized.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Kurt Lewin</span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.ucc.ie/acad/appsoc/tmp_store/mia/Library/reference/subject/philosophy/images/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Jean Piaget</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.relaxedpolitics.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/handshake.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Handshake</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://myflix.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/transformers-soundwave.jpg">Transformer</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.conversationagent.com/images/2007/12/14/conversations.jpg">Conversations</a></span></div></div></div>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423445780419606326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631978655865840575.post-66329623678817556682009-05-24T09:06:00.000-07:002009-05-25T15:50:54.489-07:00Module Assignment StructureThis is a 5,000 core module which engages with the issues surrounding teaching and learning practice. The assessment strategy clearly states that as students we are expected to do a piece of action research, which should be presented in a form of a report. I propose therefore, to use the previous module guidelines and set out the structure of the assignment as follows:<div><br /></div><div>Introduction (300 words)</div><div><ul><li>Content of action research <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(100)</span></li><li>Research focus <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(100)</span></li><li>hypothesis or main questions to be addressed <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(100)</span></li></ul>Description of the action research project (600)</div><div><ul><li>Type of research <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(150)</span></li><li>Research paradigm <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(150)</span></li><li>Purpose of research <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(150)</span></li><li>Type(s) of data <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(150)</span></li></ul>Review of literature (2,100 words)</div><div><ul><li>Evaluate and critically appraise the effectiveness of key pedagogical and androgogical concepts and approaches to chosen area of research <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(300)</span></li><li>Evaluate and critically appraise theories of teaching and learning, including those advocated by the schools of behaviourism, cognitivism and humanism in the context of ones own teaching practice <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(300)</span></li><li>Discuss the role of ICT in teaching and learning in relation to ones own teaching practice and the facilitation of learning for students in ones own practice<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(300)</span></li><li>Discuss the benefits and strategies used for reflective practice for both the teacher and learner in ones own practice<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(300)</span></li><li>Discuss how preferred learning styles of your students influence ones delivery of pedagogy to make learning more effective <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(300)</span></li><li>Discuss the use of reflective practice in a professional context to critically evaluate the effectiveness of delivery and learning<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(300)</span></li><li>Discuss the link between the learning process and motivation in respect of social, cultural and institutional contexts <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(300)</span></li></ul>Methodology (1,500 words)</div><div><ul><li>Demonstrate the use of reflective practice to critically evaluate current learning and professional practice</li><li>develop, apply and critique ones own hypotheses to teaching methods within their own professional contexts to extend practice</li></ul></div><div>Conclusion and Solution (500 words)<br /></div><div><ul><li>Synopsis of action research of the teaching and learning methods used</li><li>Justification of the strategies taken</li><li>Outcomes and suggestions for further development</li><li>Demonstrate how this will advance practitioner methods and skills</li></ul><br /></div>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423445780419606326noreply@blogger.com0